A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Via Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember / FB
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and the First Jhāna
Establishing Mindfulness of Body
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One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and Abiding in the Second Jhāna
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Via Daily Dharma: Practicing for All
When
you meditate, it is not just for yourself, you do it for the whole
society. You seek solutions to your problems not only for yourself, but
for all of us.
Gelek Rinpoche, “A Lama for All Seasons”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 14, 2022 💌
In my aging wisdom, I have a sense of the incredible beauty of the unfolding design of the universe. I treasure the mystery of it. I really delight in the mystery of it.
-Ram Dass -
Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center, February 15-16th 1997
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Via Tricycle /// How Mindfulness Works Even When It Doesn’t
How Mindfulness Works Even When It Doesn’t By Gil Fronsdal |
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Via Tricycle // Beats and Buddhas
“Beats and Buddhas”: A New Exhibit Features Art from Allen Ginsberg and Gonkar Gyatso
By Alison Spiegel
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Via Tricycle /// The Kindness of Joe Pera
The Kindness of Joe Pera
By Mike Gillis
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Via Daily Dharma: Learning When to Pause Practice
An
important part of any practice involves learning when to just stop
practicing altogether. Stopping gives you more space, which allows you
to accept the ups and downs, the possible turbulence of the experience
that may be generated by your practice.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Aim of Attention”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States
Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States
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One week from today: Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States
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Friday, August 12, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Harming Living Beings
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Via Daily Dharma: Be Kind to Fear
Perhaps
we can’t really be prepared for suffering, but we can approach fear of
suffering in a different way. Fear, with its shoulders of stone and
pounding heart, deserves to be met with kindness.
Phoebe Myers, “Living with Bears”
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Via White Crane Institute // PERSEID METEOR SHOWER
Today is the peak of the PERSEID METEOR SHOWER. a prolific meteor shower. associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are called so because the point they appear to be coming from, called the radiant, is in the constellation of Perseus. However, they can be spotted all around the sky. Because of the positioning of Swift-Tuttle's orbit, Perseids are mostly visible on the northern hemisphere.
The shower is visible from mid-July each year, but the bulk of its activity falls between August 8 and 14 with a peak on August 12. During the peak, rates of a hundred or more meteors per hour can be registered.
Meteor showers can be seen when Earth moves through a meteor stream. The stream in this case is called the Perseid cloud and it stretches along the orbit of the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud is composed of particles ejected by the comet as it passed by the Sun. Most of the dust in the cloud today is approximately a thousand years old.
However, there is also a relatively young filament of dust in the stream that boiled off the comet in 1862. The approximate rate of meteors originating from this filament is much higher than normal. The famous Perseid meteor shower has been observed for about 2000 years, with the first known information on these meteors coming from the far east. In early Europe, the Perseids came to be known as the "tears of St. Lawrence." To experience the Perseid shower in its full, one should observe in the dark of a clear moonless night, from a point far outside any large cities, where stars are not dimmed by light pollution.
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