Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Via El Pais // “É preciso apagar a ideia de que reduzir a desigualdade é coisa de comunista”


Uma hora de conversa com Martin Ravallion (Sidney, 1952) é o mais parecido a um livro de macroeconomia aberto em duas páginas: a da desigualdade e a das falhas do capitalismo do século XXI. Pai da tabela de um dólar (4 reais) diário como linha global de pobreza quando era economista do Banco Mundial — onde anos depois dirigiu seu prestigioso grupo de pesquisa para o desenvolvimento —, é desde 2013 professor da Universidade Georgetown (EUA). Ravallion, instalado há anos entre os 100 economistas mais reconhecidos do mundo de acordo com a classificação do Ideas-Repec, sabe bem o significado da desigualdade: nasceu em uma família pobre, sofreu na própria carne o que significa viver com dificuldades e decidiu que “não queria ser pobre” nunca mais, como disse quando recebeu o prêmio Fronteiras do Conhecimento BBVA, em 2016. “Todos os meus papers são muito chatos”, diz rindo ao EL PAÍS pouco depois de dar uma conferência organizada pela Oxfam no Colégio do México. Não é verdade: o australiano é um dos especialistas que melhor explicam, com palavras ao alcance de todos, por que a iniquidade é um dos grandes problemas globais de nosso tempo.
Pergunta. A pobreza extrema caiu bastante nas últimas décadas, mas a desigualdade ofuscou essa boa notícia.

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Via Daily Dharma: Rediscovering an Unscathed Mind

At the heart of the teachings is our discovery that inside all of us there is a Pristine Mind unscathed by life experiences, awaiting our rediscovery.

—Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche,“Living the Yogi-way”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 24, 2020 💌

The devotional path isn’t necessarily a straight line to enlightenment. There’s a lot of back and forth, negotiations if you will, between the ego and the soul. You look around at all the aspects of suffering, and you watch your heart close in judgment. Then you practice opening it again and loving this too, as a manifestation of the Beloved, another way the Beloved is taking form. Again your love grows vast.

In Bhakti, as you contemplate, emulate, and take on the qualities of the Beloved, your heart keeps expanding until you see the whole universe as the Beloved, even the suffering.
 
- Ram Dass -

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Via Medium-Politics // Exploring the ‘Liberal Bias’ of Reality

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Right now, conservatives have a reality problem. This is incredibly well-documented. The willingness of the right to eat up obviously fake news from Russia or 4Chan is an area of intensive academic study. The problem is one of the greatest facing a country that wants to continue to improve. How did we get to this point? There are multiple contributing factors—and four major ones.

Via Daily Dharma: Internalizing Unity

To understand that others are much like oneself creates a different perspective, a startlingly changed worldview. When this is internalized, you are not confronting another over a divide, but meeting someone with whom you have so much in common.

—Jeffrey Hopkins, “Equality”

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Monday, June 22, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Revealing and Clarifying Our Minds

We have two faces: our intrinsic nature and our reactive patterns—the bad habits of the psyche. Effective practice mirrors both, gradually revealing our nature, while at the same time, clarifying what obstructs it. 

—Interview with Anne C. Klein by Donna Lynn Brown,“Across the Expanse”

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Sunday, June 21, 2020

Via Budismo e Sociedade // Um Guia Budista para “sobreviver” ao Apocalipse



O mundo passa por um momento delicado. Deterioração do meio ambiente, pandemia, tensões sociais e raciais. Como budistas, nos perguntamos como “sobreviver” ao Fim do Mundo? Bhante Akaliko nos recorda que o Buda já fez essa pergunta séculos atrás ao Rei Pasenadi e o diálogo entre os dois serve como ensinamento para os dias de hoje.

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 21, 2020 💌

You and I are not only here in terms of the work we’re doing on ourselves. We are here in terms of the role we’re playing within the systems of which we are a part, if you look at the way change affects people that are unconscious.

Change generates fear, fear generates contractions, contraction generates prejudice, bigotry, and ultimately violence. You can watch the whole thing happen, and you can see it happen in society after society after society.

The antidote for that is a consciousness that does not respond to change with fear. That’s as close to the beginning of that sequence as I can get.

 - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: You Are Deserving of Love

Not only are we buddhas (or at least in the process of becoming buddhas), we are somehow, remarkably, deserving of being loved.

—Taylor Plimpton, “Who My Dog Thinks I Am”

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Friday, June 19, 2020

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Via Daily Dharma: The Benefits of Gratitude

It’s very difficult to be caught up in lots of distracting thoughts when there is a strong sense of appreciation in your life.

—Andy Puddicombe, “10 Tips for Living More Mindfully”

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Via NPR // Juneteenth

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The Emancipation Proclamation at the National Archives in Washington, January 16, 2006.
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Juneteenth is getting unusually widespread attention this year, as Americans protest police brutality and racism.
But some Americans have, for years, celebrated it as the day that marks our ancestors' emancipation.

June 19, 1865 was the day U.S. Army troops landed in Galveston, Texas. It was the aftermath of the Civil War. The troops informed some of the last enslaved Americans that they were forever free. They enforced President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect on January 1, 1863.
The proclamation declared freedom for the slaves of rebels in the South. It came after almost two years of war, and it took more years of war to enforce it. The order did not free every slave, and the document specified places it did not apply.

Frederick Douglass, the activist who'd been enslaved himself, said Lincoln was slow, even "slothful" in making this "obvious" move. But Douglass celebrated that "the dictation of humanity and justice have at last prevailed."

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Thursday, June 18, 2020

Infinite Potential Trailer: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm

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Via Tricycle // Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm

A message from the Fetzer Memorial Trust: 
In Honor of His Holiness’s 85th Birthday,
Join Us For a Special Event:

An exclusive screening of the film Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm
His Holiness the Dalai Lama referred to him as his "science guru." Albert Einstein called him his "spiritual son." So why is it that so few of us are familiar with the groundbreaking work of maverick physicist David Bohm?

Bohm's fascinating journey and profound discoveries about the fundamental interconnectedness of the universe are explored in the new film Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm.

In honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th birthday, The Fetzer Memorial Trust will present a special screening of the film.

Online Screening: Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm

Date: July 5, 2020

Time: 5:30 PT (6AM July 6 in India)

Free Ticket: Please click here

The event will include a panel discussion with Tibet House founder Robert Thurman, longtime English translator of His Holiness's writings, Thupten Jinpa, and Nicky Vreeland, the first Westerner to be ordained by the Dalai Lama as an Abbott. The Q&A will be moderated by Sandra de Castro Buffington, Founder of StoryAction and UCLA’s Global Media Center for Social Impact.

See the trailer and register for your free ticket here.

Bohm's lifelong friendship with Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti inspired him to introduce the idea of Consciousness into quantum theory, which was controversial, to say the least, and caused the scientific orthodoxy to dismiss his radical thinking. But Bohm's idea of the Quantum Potential, a field underlying reality, is now being reexamined in studies at University College London and the University of Toronto.

If Bohm’s theory of Quantum Potential is proven to be true, it could have radical implications of how we live life on this planet and coexist with one another.
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Via Nondual Cafe

It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

Ramakrishna

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Thich Nhat Han



 
In my calligraphy, there is ink, tea, breathing, mindfulness, and concentration. This is meditation. This is not working. Suppose I write ‘breathe’; I am breathing at the same time. To be alive is a miracle and when you breathe in mindfully, you touch the miracle of being alive.
 
- Thich Nhat Han -

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Via Daily Dharma: How to Experience Emptiness

The experience of emptiness is not found outside of the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

—Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche,“The Theater of Reflection”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 17, 2020 💌




I would like to play the part of someone who has worked on my consciousness sufficiently so that if things get tough, in terms of the environment, issues with social structures, oppression, protecting minority groups, whatever the thing is – I would like to be able to be in the scene without getting caught in my own reactivity to it, without getting so caught in my own fear that I become part of the problem instead of part of the solution.

- Ram Dass -

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Be Open to Just This Moment

“Just this moment” is the only moment, and being open to it is the only true choice we ever really have.

—Diane Eshin Rizzetto,“In Brief”

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Via Daily Dharma: The Purpose of Our Human Life

The purpose of our human life is huge—to grow larger hearts and open minds—and we celebrate that we can do this in this moment. 

—Judith Simmer-Brown,“Five Practices to Change Your Mind”

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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 14, 2020 💌

Grace helps an individual see their own suffering and then use it to their advantage. It is not something that can be a rationalization for allowing another human being to suffer. And you have to listen to the level at which another person is suffering. When somebody is hungry, you give them food. As my guru said, "God comes to the hungry person in the form of food." You give them food and then when they’ve had their belly filled then they may be interested in questions about God.

Even though you know from, say, Buddhist training, or whatever spiritual training you have had, that the root cause of suffering is ignorance, to give somebody a Dharma lecture when they are hungry is just an inappropriate methodology in terms of ending suffering...

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Taking Spiritual Risks

In the spiritual life, one has always got to take risks and experiment. The way is never smooth, easy, or clear cut. One has to learn from it all.

—John Snelling,“Beware the Charismatic Guru”

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Saturday, June 13, 2020

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— THE TRUE ASPECT OF ALL PHENOMENA — (pt.7)
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The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
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But now you must build your reputation on the Lotus Sutra and give yourself up to it. At the Ceremony in the Air, when the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions gathered together, the two Buddhas, SHAKYAMUNI AND MANY TREASURES, NODDED IN AGREEMENT. WHAT THEY DECIDED ON WAS NOTHING OTHER THAN THE PERPETUATION OF THE LAW THROUGHOUT THE LATTER DAY.
Many Treasures Buddha had offered Shakyamuni Buddha a place beside him, and when they unfurled the banner of Myoho-renge-kyo, the two leaders of the entire multitude made their decision together. Could there have  been anything false in their decision? THEIR ULTIMATE PURPOSE IN MEETING WAS TO PROVIDE A WAY FOR ALL OF US LIVING BEINGS TO ATTAIN BUDDHAHOOD.
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Although I was not at that ceremony,  on looking at the sutra, this is crystal-clear. On the other hand, I may have been at the ceremony, but since I am a common mortal, it is beyond my power to know the past. There is no doubt, however, that in my present life I am the votary of the Lotus Sutra, and that in the future I will therefore reach the seat of enlightenment without fail. Judging the past from this point of view, I must have been at the Ceremony in the Air. There can be no discontinuity between the three existences of past, present, and future.
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Because I view things this way, I feel immeasurable delight even though I am now an exile. Joy as well as sorrow moves us to tears. Tears express our feelings for both blessings and misfortune. The one thousand arhats shed tears in memory of the Buddha, and in tears Bodhisattva Manjushri chanted Myoho-renge-kyo.
From among those one thousand arhats, the Venerable Ananda replied in tears, “This is what I heard.”
The tears of all the others fell, wetting their inkstones, and they wrote Myoho-renge-kyo, followed by “This is what I heard.” I, Nichiren, now feel exactly as they did.
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Via Tricycle // Racial Justice Is Everyone’s Work

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We can all do better. To help us get started, these six thoughtful pieces from leading Buddhist teachers and practitioners of color offer insight, clarity, and guidance on engaging with racial injustice.
 

Via Daily Dharma: Calming Our Suffering

In meditation we learn to cultivate and stretch the moments of being unencumbered, those places of non-suffering. We can experience the state of non-suffering with each breath, moment by moment, breathing in and breathing out.

—Zenju Earthlyn Manuel,“The Terror Within”

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Heighten Your Sense of Connection

The word [sangha] can be extended to encompass all sentient beings—and even all inhabitants of a unified ecosystem... This inspiring vision brings with it a heightened sense of connection, a greater appreciation of mutual interdependence, and a shared responsibility for all beings to respect and care for one another.

—Andrew Olendzki,“What’s in a Word? Sangha”

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Via Ticycle // 5 Questions That Help Us Wake Up


5 Questions That Help Us Wake Up
Trying to push away our emotional distress can throw us into “cognitive shock” that turns our mind into a muddle. Ezra Bayda shares five simple questions to help us cut though confusion.
 

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 10, 2020 💌


Find something that needs help, and help it, then you work on yourself to make it a conscious act. As Gandhi said, "The act that you do may seem very insignificant but it is important that you do it."

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Mindfully Witnessing the Suffering of Others

Willingness to patiently accompany another in their time of suffering with care and awareness—while realizing it is not one’s own, despite feeling empathic distress—may be the necessary means for discovering how we can best help that person.

—Fleet Maull, “From Empathy to Compassion”

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