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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.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Via Buddhism on Beliefnet:
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma September 4, 2012
Be Who You Are
Don’t
try to do anything at all except what you’re doing, which will seem
like nothing to most observers. Little do they know! Even if what you’re
doing is being distracted and hating sitting on your cushion
accomplishing nothing—just do that. Don’t try to be anything other than
who and what you are.
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- Brad Warner, "How to Not Waste Time"
Monday, September 3, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma September 3, 2012
No-working is True Working
The
idea of naturalness is that no-working is true working. It’s the
understanding that things don’t happen due to your own calculation and
effort. You don’t sit there thinking, 'All right now, if I’m able to
follow the eightfold path and do everything the right way, then I will
attain awakening.' That’s your own deluded, ego-based effort. I did this, I am able to do that—the
moment you start thinking that way, your ego mind comes into play. Yet
when the karmic conditions are right, when your causes and conditions
come together, you can progress along the path.
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- Reverend Patricia Kanaya Usuki, "The Great Compassion"
Sunday, September 2, 2012
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