Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 15, 2020 💌


If we accept that the ends of our actions often prove unknowable, we’re also freer to be focused on the process of our work as it’s happening. We can be attentive to situations as they occur. What lies before us is it. Helping is right here. Not having to know so badly, not wandering off looking, we’re more able to be present, freer simply to be.
We needn’t be troubled or worn down, then, by paradox and ambiguity. The mystery of helping can be our ally, our teacher, an environment for wonder and discovery. If we enter into it openly, our actions fall into perspective, a larger pattern we can trust. At rest in the Witness, meanwhile, we greet the outcome of our action with equanimity.

Here is a final shift in perspective which can help release us from burnout: We do what we can.

- Ram Dass -

Monday, July 13, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Cultivate Open Awareness

Cultivation of open awareness contributes to more flexibility of the mind and a concurrent ability to include more perspectives. Our powers of observation become more acute, and we can actually see our prejudices arise, noticing how we cling to fixed views. Eventually, it becomes easier to relinquish them and be open to new ways of seeing.

—Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Loh, “In Brief”

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Sunday, July 12, 2020

Heart Sutra Live Looping Remix【Loopstation RC-505】


Via Daily Dharma: Anchoring in the Present Moment

Most people think that thoughts and emotions are the enemy. But we can use thoughts and emotions, even the bad ones, to actually bring us into the present moment.

—Phakchok Rinpoche, “Creating a Confident Mind”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - July 12, 2020 💌



It's the expectations of your own mind that creates your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn't the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You'll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.

- Ram Dass -

Saturday, July 11, 2020

NiT GriT - The Awakening


Via Daily Dharma: How to Become Whole

To have well-being means to be whole—not split. It means being able to accept one’s own life—including one’s past—without striving for something else or wanting to be somebody else. 

—Interview with Werner Vogd by Susanne Billig, “Becoming Whole”

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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Cacao: Food of the Gods - a film about the origin of cacao ceremonies


Via Daily Dharma: Warm Up for Meditation

Take the time [you] need to prepare the body for meditation. By doing so, we invite the breath to become our closest ally—one we can rely on to inform us about and eventually lead us back to the spaciousness right here and now.

Lauren Krauze,“Breathe Easy”

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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Lemurian Home Coming-Regreso al Hogar Lemuriano


Via Daily Dharma: Trust Your Own Pace

If enlightenment were easy, everyone would be enlightened. Meditation has its own pace. The practice brings you just the challenges you need and are able to handle at the right time.

—Jan Chozen Bays,“Endless Practice”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 8, 2020 💌




We have to work on ourselves until we can be in the world without being automatically reactive. As the stuff of the world around us comes pouring in on us, instead of reacting with fear and aversion or greed and grasping, the art is to introduce a moment of clear, quiet awareness between the input (or perception) and the output (or response). By adding this moment of awareness, we break the chain of reactivity that keeps us all so unconsciously bound. 

- Ram Dass -