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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 16, 2020 💌

Who dwell in the heart cave has no limit. Who dwells in the heart cave is beyond time, beyond space.   

Each time you experience yourself as something or somebody, just notice that it's another thought or sensation drifting across the walls of the cave, and return to the spacious, formless, timeless essence. 

 

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Online Meditation Calendar

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We’re continuing to update our calendar of virtual meditations and dharma events for those practicing at home during the COVID pandemic. Find our list of free resources here.

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Via Daily Dharma: Improve Your Mind

 Merit created through skillful means and wisdom is for more than physical comfort; it is to improve the conditions for your mind.

—Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “Noble Wishes” 

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Via FB // Home is not a place

Home is not a place. Home is an architecture of bones and a steadily thumping heart. Home is where dreams are born, and monsters are put to rest. It is where the soul can unfurl like the petals of a flower and find succor in the golden blush of each new day.

Sarah Chorn, Of Honey and Wildfires (via yabookquote)

The most important point of Buddha's teachings ~ Gyaltsab Rinpoche

 

The most important point of Buddha's teachings ~ Gyaltsab Rinpoche https://justdharma.com/s/5v6dq  When you suffer, if you take that not just as your own suffering but rather as the nature of samsara, then you are understanding the most important point of Buddha's teachings.  – Gyaltsab Rinpoche  source: https://bit.ly/1jJWC9e

Via Daily Dharma: Go Beyond Good and Bad

 Fortune and misfortune, good and bad—not everything is how it looks to your eyes. It’s not how you think it is either. We’ve got to go beyond fortune and misfortune, good and bad.

—Kodo Sawaki Roshi, “To You”

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Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland

Via Daily Dharma: Change the Direction of Your Thoughts

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we’re heading toward an unhealthy path, and if so, let go and change directions.

—Sharon Salzberg, “Mindfulness and Difficult Emotions”

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 This Day in Gay History

September 13

Born

Alain Locke

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ALAIN LOCKE (d: 1954) An American writer, editor, philosopher, educator and patron of the arts was born on this date. He is best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. He is unofficially called the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance." His philosophy served as a strong motivating force in keeping the energy and passion of the Movement at the forefront.

In classic same-sex “culture carrier” mode, Locke promoted African American artists, writers, and musicians, encouraging them to look to Africa as an inspiration for their works. He encouraged them to depict African and African American subjects, and to draw on their history for subject material. Locke edited the March 1925 issue of the periodical Survey Graphic, a special on Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance, which helped educate white readers about the flourishing culture there.

Later that year, he expanded the issue into The New Negro, a collection of writings by African Americans, which would become one of his best known and seminal works.

His philosophy of the New Negro was grounded in the concept of race-building. Its most important component is overall awareness of the potential black equality; No longer would blacks allow themselves to adjust themselves or comply with unreasonable white requests. This idea was based on self-confidence and political awareness. Although in the past the laws regarding equality had been ignored without consequence, Locke's philosophical idea of The New Negro allowed for real fair treatment. Because this was just an idea and not an actual bylaw, its power was held in the people. If they wanted this idea to flourish, they were the ones who would need to "enforce" it through their actions and overall points of view. Locke has been said to have greatly influenced and encouraged Zora Neale Hurston.

 

He was also a Bahá'í  

Unity Through Diversity: A Bahá’í Principle

Alain Locke: Baha'i Philosopher

 

Via Daily Dharma: Inner and Outer Practice

 Genuine spiritual practice offers a way to face both our inner and outer worlds and to bring these two related realms into living, loving dialogue.

—Gaylon Ferguson, “Natural Bravery”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 13, 2020 💌

 

The Living Spirit, the Beloved, is always right here. It is merely your mind that prevents you from acknowledging its existence. When you quiet your mind or open your heart out so that it draws your mind along with it, only then do you rend the veil to see that the Beloved is right here.

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One of the best posts I've read to describe "white privilege".

 Don’t really get all the BLM stuff?

 400 years ago white people enslaved black people.

 And sold them.

 And treated them as less than human.

 

 For 250 years.

 While white men built the country and created its laws and its systems of government.

 While 10, 15 generations of white families got to grow and flourish and make choices that could make their lives better.

 150 years ago white people "freed" black people from slavery.

 But then angry white people created laws that made it impossible for them to vote.

 Or to own land.

 Or to have the same rights as white people. And even erected monuments glorifying people who actively had fought to keep them enslaved.

 All while another 5, 10 generations of white families got to grow and accumulate wealth and gain land and get an education.

 

 60 years ago we made it "legal" for black people to vote, and to be "free" from discrimination.

 But angry white people still fought to keep schools segregated.

 And closed off neighborhoods to white people only.

 

 And made it harder for black people to get bank loans, or get quality education or health care, or to (gasp) marry a white person.

 All while another 2-3 generations of white families got to grow and pass their wealth down to their children and their children's children.

 

 Present day-

 And then we entered an age where we had the technology to make PUBLIC the things that were already happening in private-- the beatings, the stop and frisk laws, the unequal distribution of justice, the police brutality (in the south, police began as slave patrols designed to catch runaway slaves).

 And only now, after 400+ years and 20+ generations of a white head start, are we STARTING to truly have a dialogue about what it means to be black.

 

 White privilege doesn't mean you haven't suffered or fought or worked hard.

 It doesn't mean white people are responsible for the sins of our ancestors.

 It doesn’t mean you can’t be proud of who you are.

 It DOES mean that we need to acknowledge that the system our ancestors created is built FOR white people.

 It DOES mean that Black people are treated at a disadvantage because of the color of their skin

 It DOES mean that we owe it to our neighbors-- of all colors-- to acknowledge that and work to make our world more equitable.

 Because Black Lives Matter.

 Understanding why we have to say this matters.

 Your voice in this movement matters. Recognizing privilege, power and history matters.

 

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