The
present moment is not defined solely by letting go of past and future,
nor by accepting and appreciating what arises right now, but by choosing
in this very moment how we make sense of the world.
Friday, October 22, 2021
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Learning From Others
We
are often the last ones to grasp the impacts of our actions. So we do
well not to let our self-concepts get in the way of inviting and deeply
considering feedback from others.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 20, 2021 💌
You and I are in training to be free. We’re in training to be so
present, so spacious, so embracing, we’re in training to not look away,
deny or close our hearts when we can’t bear something. The statement, “I
can’t bear it,” is what burns you out in social action. When you’re in
the presence of suffering and contracting, it’s the contraction that
starves you to death.
When you close your heart down to protect yourself from suffering, you
also close yourself off from being fed by that same life situation.
If you can stay open to both the suffering and the joys and the stuff of
life, all of it, then it’s like a living spirit. It just connects to
your living spirit and there’s a tremendous feeding going on.
Once you see all this, what else is there to do but keep working on
becoming conscious? You’d be a fool not to. You’re only going to
perpetuate your misery and suffering and everybody else’s if you don’t.
The other thing is to do it joyfully! When you meet somebody that’s
suffering, what do you have to offer them? You could offer them your
empathy. That’s a good thing to offer because they feel somebody else is
listening to them. The other thing you can offer them is your joy, your
presence, and your ‘not getting caught in it all.’
Having that empathy for another means your heart is breaking, because
you understand the intensity of their experience, and at the same
moment, you are absolutely, equanimously, present. You are not clinging
to anything, just watching the phenomena of the universe change.
- Ram Dass -
Via Tricycle // Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
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Via Daily Dharma: Know Your Conditioning
Like
the Buddha seeing Mara, much conditioning scuffles off, powerless, once
it is seen and fully understood. The work is to know the conditioning,
not to hide from or fight it.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 17, 2021 💌
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Via Daily Dharma: Entering the Sphere of Action
If
we are to fulfill our ethical responsibilities, it’s not enough simply
to adopt the Buddhist precepts as guides to personal conduct, live a
life of moral integrity, and cultivate thoughts of lovingkindness and
compassion in the comfort of our meditation halls. It’s crucial for us
to enter the sphere of action.
Via Daily Dharma: Deepening Our Equanimity
In
the deepest forms of insight, we see that things change so quickly that
we can’t hold onto anything, and eventually the mind lets go of
clinging. Letting go brings equanimity; the greater the letting go, the
deeper the equanimity.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: The Wisdom of Openness
When
we are open, we see that essentially everything belongs because it
simply is what it is, even our reactivity. We notice that when we
actually see and understand something, it drops away.
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // Today's Gay Wisdom
2017 -
The Wit of Oscar Wilde A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. A poet can survive everything but a misprint. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. A true friend stabs you in the front. | ||
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Via Daily Dharma: What Is Renunciation?
Renunciation
isn’t about taking monastic vows or exchanging your Tempur-Pedic
mattress for a pallet; it’s about the wisdom to realize that holding on
to anything impermanent only brings sorrow.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Transform Your World
The
bigger our heart is, the more permeable the structure of our self, and
the more we can think beyond our self-interest. Slowly, our world
transforms into a place all of us, as people on the planet, can feel at
home.
—Radhule Weininger, “How to Follow the Bodhisattva Path Without Burning Out”
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Via Daily Dharma: Life Is Not Personal
Reminding
myself that life is not personal, permanent, or perfect has kept me
from falling into sinkholes of despair and destroying rooms with rage.
It invites me to pause and turn inward.
Via White Crane Institute // VIRGIL
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October 15Born 
0070 BCE -
VIRGIL, Roman poet, born; the author of epics in three modes: the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics and the substantially completed Aeneid, the last being an epic poem in the heroic mode, which comprised twelve books (as opposed to 24 in each of the epic poems by Homer) and became the Roman Empire’s national epic. In themes the ten eclogues develop and vary epic song, relating it first to Roman power, then to love, both homosexual (ecl. 2) and panerotic (ecl. 3), then again to Roman power and Caesar's heir imagined as authorizing Virgil to surpass Greek epic and refound tradition, shifting back to love then as a dynamic source considered apart from Rome. Hence in the remaining eclogues Virgil withdraws from his newly minted Roman mythology and gradually constructs a new myth of his own poetics: he casts the remote Greek region of Arcadia, home of the god Pan, as the place of poetic origin itself. In passing he again rings changes on erotic themes, such as requited and unrequited homosexual and heterosexual passion, tragic love for elusive women or magical powers of song to retrieve an elusive male. He concludes by establishing Arcadia as a poetic ideal that still resonates in Western literature and visual arts. Since Virgil depicted his hero Aeneus seeking advice from his father Anchises in the underworld, Dante Alighieri made the shade of Virgil his own guide for his pilgrimage through the inferno and part of purgatory in his own epic poem The Divine Comedy.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 13, 2021 💌
If I can see a soul that happens to have incarnated into a person that I
don’t care for, then my consciousness becomes an environment in which
they are free to come up from air if they want to.
That person can do so because I’m not trying to keep them locked into
being the person that they have become. It’s liberating to resist
another person politically, yet still see them as another soul.
Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean
to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so
deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness
is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being
love is a supreme creative act.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Finding Practice
Practice
needs to be weaved into the fabric of our lives so that every moment
and place is an opportunity for practice and progression.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Enjoying the Mystery
Spiritual
transformation, like love, is not a matter for abstract reason and
analysis. It partakes of mystery, of unpredictability, or grace.
Monday, October 11, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
1988 -
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY -- National Coming Out Day was founded by Robert Eichberg and Jean O'Leary on October 11, 1988 in celebration of the first Gay march on Washington D.C. a year earlier. The purpose of the march and of National Coming Out Day is to promote government and public awareness of Gay, bisexual, Lesbian and transgender rights and to celebrate homosexuality. National Coming Out Day is a time to publicly display Gay pride. Many choose this day to come out to their parents, friends, co-workers and themselves.
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