Thursday, April 29, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Adjust the Description

 If the world is difficult and life is difficult, it may not be that there is something wrong with life or the world—it may be that there is something wrong with our descriptions.

—Norman Fischer, “Beyond Language”

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

 


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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - April 28, 2021 💌

 

How does one become loving awareness?

If I change my identification from the ego to the soul, then as I look at people, they all appear like souls to me. I change from my head, the thought of who I am, to my spiritual heart, which is a different sort of awareness – feeling directly, intuiting, loving awareness.⁣⁣ ⁣

It’s changing from a worldly outer identification to a spiritual inner identification.

Concentrate on your spiritual heart, right in the middle of your chest. Keep repeating the phrase, “I am loving awareness. I am loving awareness. I am loving awareness.”⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

The object of our love is love itself. It is the inner light in everyone and everything. Love is a state of being.⁣⁣

You begin to love people because they just are. You see the mystery of the Divine in form. When you live in love, you see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

When you and I rest together in loving awareness, we swim together in the ocean of love. Remember, it’s always right here. Enter into the flow of love with a quiet mind and see all things with love as part of yourself.⁣⁣ ⁣

- Ram Dass -

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Via Daily Dharma: Dwell in the Present

Dwelling in a time other than the present starts to churn the ego: anxieties arise, desires become distractions, and to do things well is nearly impossible. But when there is no idea of time, there are no expectations, and desires do not become a problem.

—Les Kaye, “The Time Is Now”

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Knowing Happiness

 When we’re able to move beyond the fear of death, we’re greatly served in our efforts to know happiness in life.

—Peter Doobinin, “Sutta Study: Fearless”

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Monday, April 26, 2021

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Via Lion's Roar // How to Read Buddhist Teachings

 

How to Read Buddhist Teachings
No matter where you begin, says Judy Lief, or whether you are an independent practitioner or affiliated with a particular tradition, all you have to do is to dive in.
Some people love to practice and hate to study, and other people love to study and hate to practice. Which type of person are you? If studying comes easy for you, it is possible to confuse intellectual understanding with real understanding. If studying is more difficult for you and practice is easier, it is possible to hide out in a vague understanding of meditative experience and fail to challenge yourself intellectually or to develop a sophisticated understanding of the dharma.

So before you launch into further study, study yourself. 
 

Via Daily Dharma: Act with Enlightenment

 For me the enlightened state is the realization of the oneness of life. And the proof is in the pudding: Are you functioning that way? Are you helping others?

—Interview with Bernie Glassman by James Shaheen, “Working in the Cracks”

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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Sua...

'Sua generosidade chamará a bondade alheia em seu socorro.
Sua simplicidade solucionará problemas para muita gente.
Sua complexidade provocará muita dissimulação no próximo.
Sua indiferença fará manifesta frieza nos outros.
Seu desejo sincero de paz garantirá tranquilidade no caminho.
Seu propósito de guerrear dará frutos de inquietação.
Sua distinção edificará maneiras corretas naqueles que o seguem.
Sua espiritualidade superior incentivará sublimes construções espirituais.
Diariamente, semeamos e colhemos. A vida é também um solo que recebe e produz eternamente.''

 

André Luiz.

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