Monday, October 26, 2026
Via Tricycle: The Buddhist Review \\ Are you afraid of dying?
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Via Daily Dharma: The Fertile Soil of Daily Life
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Sunday, October 25, 2026
Via [GBF] "Discovering the Intimacy of True Seeing" with Dorothy Hunt
The latest dharma talk is now available on the GBF website and podcast:
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What does it truly mean to look beyond our conceptual labels and rest in the direct, unmediated experience of awareness?
What does it truly mean to look beyond our conceptual labels and rest in the direct, unmediated experience of awareness?
In this illuminating talk, Dorothy Hunt invites us to explore how true seeing shatters the illusion of separation and brings us home to the present moment. She gently guides us to recognize that awareness is not something we achieve, but rather what we fundamentally are when we stop searching and simply notice what is here.
As Dorothy explains, softening into this deep inquiry involves a few essential shifts in perception:
- Recognizing that our thoughts, sensations, and emotions are simply passing expressions of a vast, welcoming mystery rather than fixed identities to defend.
- Dropping the spiritual ambition to “get somewhere” else, and instead allowing ourselves to rest fully in the ordinary, intimate immediacy of now.
- Cultivating a compassionate, unshielded tenderness toward our human vulnerability, letting awareness hold every experience just as it is.
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Via Daily Dharma: Reveal What Is Stuck
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: You Just Know
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Friday, October 23, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: Have Vigilance
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Thursday, October 22, 2026
Via FB \\ THINK ABOUT THIS FOLKS...
THINK ABOUT THIS FOLKS...
A farmer, tired of rats destroying his crops and stealing his grain, came up with a clever but cruel plan. He threw a dead pig into a deep, abandoned well. Attracted by the smell, nearly 80 rats rushed into the well to feast on the carcass. At first, everything seemed wonderful. There was more than enough food for everyone, and the rats ate until they were satisfied.
But when the food was gone, they discovered something terrifying. The walls of the well were too steep to climb. They were trapped. Days passed, and hunger turned into desperation. Desperation turned into aggression. The rats that had once eaten peacefully beside one another began fighting for survival. Eventually, they began killing and eating each other.
One by one, their numbers dwindled until only a single rat remained. Its eyes were bloodshot, and it had survived by consuming its own kind. Then the farmer returned, lowered a rope into the well, and rescued the last surviving rat. But he didn't save it out of kindness or compassion.
The farmer knew the rat had learned to survive by hunting other rats. When he released it into his fields, it would continue killing its own kind instead of eating his grain. The farmer had turned his enemy into his greatest weapon.
And that is the lesson of divide and conquer. Those who control the trap don't need to fight the battles themselves. They simply create the conditions in which others turn against one another.
The rats believed their enemies were the other rats. They never realized that the true enemy was the farmer who had put them there.
The greatest danger isn't always the enemy standing in front of you. Sometimes it's the one who created the conflict and stands quietly watching you destroy each other.
Before you turn against your neighbor because of their political beliefs, ask yourself who benefits from keeping Americans divided. While we fight each other over Republican and Democrat, we may be overlooking those who profit from the conflict. Perhaps the real question isn't which side you're on, but who built the well—and why they want us fighting at the bottom of it.
REFLETAM SOBRE ISSO, PESSOAL...
Um fazendeiro, cansado de ver ratos destruindo suas plantações e roubando seus grãos, elaborou um plano engenhoso, porém cruel. Ele jogou um porco morto dentro de um poço profundo e abandonado. Atraídos pelo cheiro, quase 80 ratos correram para dentro do poço para se banquetear com a carcaça. No início, tudo parecia maravilhoso. Havia comida de sobra para todos, e os ratos comeram até ficarem satisfeitos.
Mas, quando a comida acabou, eles descobriram algo aterrorizante: as paredes do poço eram íngremes demais para serem escaladas. Eles estavam presos. Os dias passaram, e a fome transformou-se em desespero. O desespero transformou-se em agressividade. Os ratos, que antes comiam pacificamente uns ao lado dos outros, começaram a lutar pela sobrevivência. Por fim, passaram a matar e a devorar uns aos outros.
Um a um, o número deles diminuiu, até que restou apenas um único rato. Seus olhos estavam injetados de sangue; ele havia sobrevivido consumindo os da sua própria espécie. Então, o fazendeiro voltou, baixou uma corda no poço e resgatou o último rato sobrevivente. Mas ele não o salvou por bondade ou compaixão.
O fazendeiro sabia que aquele rato havia aprendido a sobreviver caçando outros ratos. Ao soltá-lo em suas terras, o animal continuaria matando seus semelhantes, em vez de comer os grãos. O fazendeiro transformara seu inimigo em sua maior arma.
Essa é a lição do "dividir para conquistar". Aqueles que controlam a armadilha não precisam lutar as batalhas por conta própria; eles simplesmente criam as condições para que os outros se voltem uns contra os outros.
Os ratos acreditavam que seus inimigos eram os outros ratos. Eles jamais perceberam que o verdadeiro inimigo era o fazendeiro que os havia colocado ali.
O maior perigo nem sempre é o inimigo que está diante de você. Às vezes, é aquele que criou o conflito e permanece ali, observando em silêncio enquanto vocês se destroem mutuamente.
Antes de se voltar contra o seu próximo por causa de convicções políticas, pergunte a si mesmo: quem se beneficia ao manter os americanos divididos? Enquanto brigamos uns com os outros — republicanos contra democratas —, talvez estejamos ignorando aqueles que lucram com esse conflito. Talvez a verdadeira questão não seja de que lado você está, mas quem construiu o poço — e por que querem que a gente lute lá no fundo dele.
Via Daily Dharma: Absolute Stillness
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