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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.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Via Daily Dharma
Flor do Dia - Flor del Día - Flower of the Day -12/02/2015
“Muitas vezes damos passagem para determinados impulsos que não
gostamos e não aceitamos, e que gostaríamos que fossem diferentes. O que
faz uma pessoa refém do ciúme e da inveja? Refém da insegurança e da
vingança? Refém do medo? É a ignorância a respeito da natureza desse
impulso. Isso porque tudo o que é negado e relegado ao plano da sombra
acaba ganhando força justamente por ficar no inconsciente.”
Acesse ao Satsang Completo: bit.ly/25012015
Acesse ao Satsang Completo: bit.ly/25012015
“Muchas veces damos pasaje a determinados impulsos que no nos gustan y
no aceptamos, y que gustaríamos que fuesen diferentes. ¿Qué hace a una
persona rehén de los celos, de la envidia? ¿Rehén de la inseguridad y de
la venganza? ¿Rehén del miedo? Es la ignorancia al respecto de la
naturaleza de ese impulso. Eso porque todo lo que es negado y relegado
al plano de la sombra acaba ganando fuerza justamente por estar en el
inconsciente.”
"Oftentimes we give way to certain impulses that we do not like nor accept, and that we wish would be different. What makes a person hostage to jealousy and envy? What makes one hostage to insecurity, revenge and fear? It is the ignorance about the nature of this impulse. Everything that is denied and banished to the realms of the shadow ends up gaining strength simply by remaining unconscious."
"Oftentimes we give way to certain impulses that we do not like nor accept, and that we wish would be different. What makes a person hostage to jealousy and envy? What makes one hostage to insecurity, revenge and fear? It is the ignorance about the nature of this impulse. Everything that is denied and banished to the realms of the shadow ends up gaining strength simply by remaining unconscious."
Via Daily Dharma
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Flor do Dia - Flor del Día - Flower of the Day - 11/02/2015
“Ao entrega-se para a vontade divina, a vontade do seu Eu superior,
você se torna uma testemunha silenciosa; um canal puro do amor. Cada
ação é como uma prece ao Divino e sua vida se torna devoção. Nada do que
você faz é para si mesmo: a graça, a alegria, a cura e o amor passam
por você para chegar ao outro, e assim você vai experimentando a
plenitude e o contentamento – você vai provando pílulas de samadhi, o
êxtase místico. E a cada vislumbre do
Eterno, a natureza inferior vai se dissipando, e você vai se aproximando
da sua verdadeira essência.”
Acesse ao Satsang Completo: bit.ly/1CviIRC
“Al entregarse a la voluntad divina, la voluntad de tu Yo superior, te vuelves un testigo silencioso, un canal puro del amor. Cada acción es como una plegaria al Divino y tu vida se vuelve devoción. Nada de lo que haces es para ti mismo: la gracia, la alegría, la cura y el amor pasan por ti para llegar al otro, y así vas experimentando la plenitud y el contentamiento – vas probando las píldoras de samadhi, el éxtasis místico. Y a cada vislumbre del Eterno, la naturaleza inferior se va disipando, y vas aproximándote a tu verdadera esencia.”
"When you surrender to the divine will, the will of your higher self, you become a silent witness and a pure channel of love. Each action turns into a prayer to the Divine and your life becomes devotion. Nothing you do is for yourself. Grace, joy, healing and love pass through you to reach the other. In this way, you go on experiencing fulfillment and contentment. You experience samadhi pills: mystical ecstasy. At every glimpse of the Eternal, the lower nature begins to dissipate, and you come closer to your true essence."
“Al entregarse a la voluntad divina, la voluntad de tu Yo superior, te vuelves un testigo silencioso, un canal puro del amor. Cada acción es como una plegaria al Divino y tu vida se vuelve devoción. Nada de lo que haces es para ti mismo: la gracia, la alegría, la cura y el amor pasan por ti para llegar al otro, y así vas experimentando la plenitud y el contentamiento – vas probando las píldoras de samadhi, el éxtasis místico. Y a cada vislumbre del Eterno, la naturaleza inferior se va disipando, y vas aproximándote a tu verdadera esencia.”
"When you surrender to the divine will, the will of your higher self, you become a silent witness and a pure channel of love. Each action turns into a prayer to the Divine and your life becomes devotion. Nothing you do is for yourself. Grace, joy, healing and love pass through you to reach the other. In this way, you go on experiencing fulfillment and contentment. You experience samadhi pills: mystical ecstasy. At every glimpse of the Eternal, the lower nature begins to dissipate, and you come closer to your true essence."
- Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Flower of the Day: 02/10/15
“Different spiritual traditions invoke the Divine in specific ways, but there is a common denominator amongst them. For example, bhajans, devotional
chants, evoke the deities of the Hindu tradition. Through their
symbolism, these deities, or names and forms of the Divine, represent
aspects of the Divine that dwell within us all. Everything is inside of
us. The Divine works through each one of us, and that which is not here
is nowhere."
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
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Flower of the Day: 02/09/15
"It
is true that the spiritual master is One, that the truth is One, and
that the path is One. However, it’s necessary to be aware of the
importance of focusing and connecting with the channel that represents
the bridge to this oneness for us at this precise moment. Compulsion can
manifest in different ways in the many areas of life, and if we are in a
particular place but cannot relax and surrender to the process, then we
won’t be able to benefit from it. In order to benefit from the path we
are on, we must enter into communion with it. For this to occur, we need
to focus, surrender and relax."
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
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Via Daily Dharma
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Sunday, February 8, 2015
Via Daily Dharma
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Friday, February 6, 2015
Via JMG: 81% Of College Freshmen Back Marriage
In its annual American Freshman Survey, UCLA researchers polled over 150,000 incoming freshmen at 227 colleges and universities. This year's result on marriage:
Reposted from Joe Jervis
The survey last asked about same-sex marriage in 2012. In the interim, support for same-sex couples having the legal right to marry has increased 6.5 percentage points to 81.5%. This increase covers a span of time where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s state ban on same-sex marriage. Additionally, since these Supreme Court decisions, state-level same-sex marriage bans have fallen across the country in U.S. Circuit and District courts; as of January 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up four pending cases from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Figure 10 breaks support for same-sex marriage down by political ideology. The findings show that only students who identify as “far right” do not support same-sex marriage. Just 44.3% of students identified as “far right” either “agreed somewhat” or “agreed strongly” that same-sex couples should have the legal right to marry. This figure contrasts with 56.6% of “conservative” students, 84.7% of “middle-of-the-road” students, 93.9% of “liberal” students, and 90.5% of “far left” students. It is clear that same-sex marriage is no longer an issue for the vast majority of entering college freshmen.We can't wait for Tony Perkins to spin this one.
Via Daily Dharma
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Flower of the Day: 02/06/15
"By
deepening the practice of self-observation, we may reach the surprising
conclusion that we feel pleasure through our negative actions in the
world. There is a pleasure connected to the negative situation that
repeats itself in our lives. Our vital energy is invested into this
destructive action. As we deepen even further into this practice of
self-observation, we realize that this may be the only way we know how
to feel pleasure. Oftentimes, the positive manifestation of pleasure is a
threat to the human being. Since we are so identified with this
negativity, we suffer the terror of being annihilated in its absence.
Unconsciously, we believe that letting go of this negativity would mean
death."
- Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Flor do Dia - Flor del Día - Flower of the Day - 04/02/2015
“Alguns seres que atingiram a meta da autorrealização enxergam esse
planeta como uma prisão. Eu prefiro vê-lo como uma escola, onde a
principal matéria é o amor desinteressado. Mas, para amar de forma
desinteressada você precisa aprender a perdoar e agradecer, e para
perdoar e agradecer, você tem que aprender muitas outras coisas.”
“Algunos seres que han alcanzado la meta de la autorrealización ven este planeta como una prisión. Yo prefiero verlo como una escuela, donde la principal materia es el amor desinteresado. Pero para amar de forma desinteresada, precisas aprender a perdonar y agradecer, y para perdonar y agradecer, tienes que aprender muchas otras cosas.”
“Algunos seres que han alcanzado la meta de la autorrealización ven este planeta como una prisión. Yo prefiero verlo como una escuela, donde la principal materia es el amor desinteresado. Pero para amar de forma desinteresada, precisas aprender a perdonar y agradecer, y para perdonar y agradecer, tienes que aprender muchas otras cosas.”
"Some beings who have attained the goal of self-realization see this
planet as a prison. I prefer to see it as a school, where the main
subject matter is selfless love. To be able to love selflessly, we must
learn to forgive and give thanks. In order to forgive and thank, we have
to learn many more things."
- Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Via Daily Dharma
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