We do not become less human by purging toxins from our emotional life but rather more nobly human. Abandoning greed, hatred, and delusion at every opportunity, we are still left with a rich, nuanced, and healthier emotional life.
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Via Lion's Roar // Loving-Kindness: Healing Your Inner Child
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Thich
Nhat Hanh, our teacher, described love as an extremely powerful energy
that has the capacity to transform ourselves and others. But many of us
find it difficult to direct love toward ourselves. We quickly become
aware of negative feelings like shame, guilt, and self-criticism that
make it hard to love and care for ourselves. Unfortunately, this is all
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Via FB // The Pink Triangle
In Nazi concentration camps, each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the reason for their imprisonment; A pink triangle was established for prisoners identified as homosexual men, which also included bisexual men and transgender women. The pink triangles were slightly larger than the other colored triangles so that guards could identify them from a distance. It is said that those who wore the pink triangles were singled out by the guards, and when the guards were finished with them, some of the other inmates would harm them as well. At the end of the war, when the concentration camps were finally liberated, virtually all of the prisoners were released except those who wore the pink triangle. Those with a pink triangle on their pocket were put back in prison and their nightmare continued. Prisoners imprisoned for homosexuality were re-incarcerated by the Allied-established Federal Republic of Germany. The Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, which turned homosexuality from a minor offense into a felony, remained intact in East Germany until 1968 and in West Germany until 1969, though West Germany continued to imprison those identified as homosexual until 1994. 1994, only 26 years ago. The holocaust did not end for everyone in 1945.
Via Daily Dharma: Make Friends With Your Mind
Meditation
teachers often use the analogy of meditation as making friends with
your mind, and for good reason. If our practice feels like hanging out
with a hopeless case we are charged with fixing but fear we cannot,
sitting is no fun at all.
Friday, June 4, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Liberate Your Breath
Breath
wants to liberate itself, to free itself from its encasing in the
body’s frozen stillness. The whole of the body wants to keep moving—not
even a single little part left out, everything in motion, just like the
universe.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Tasting Freedom
The
Buddha says that just as in the great ocean there is but one taste, the
taste of salt, so in his doctrine and discipline there is but one
taste, the taste of freedom.
Não vamos voltar ao normal.
Não
vamos voltar ao normal. Normal nunca foi. Nossa existência pré-corona
não era normal, a não ser que normalizamos a ganância, a injustiça, a
exaustão, o esgotamento, a extração... Não devemos voltar por muito
tempo, meus amigos. Estamos tendo a oportunidade de costurar uma nova
roupa. Aquela que se adapta a toda a humanidade e a natureza.
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Living Harmoniously With Others
For spiritual practitioners,
relationships are the final test.
Even if you have awakened to your enlightened nature,
there is still further to go in your spiritual journey
if you’re not living harmoniously with others.
Even if you have awakened to your enlightened nature,
there is still further to go in your spiritual journey
if you’re not living harmoniously with others.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 2, 2021 💌
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Returning the Gift of Life
Life
is given to us for free. How can we repay such a gift except with the
fullness of our own life? What could be better than to return life
entirely to itself?
—Caitriona Reed, “Coming Out Whole”
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Monday, May 31, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: The Essence of Spiritual Practice
The
essence of spiritual practice is remembrance, whether it’s remembering
to come back to the present moment or recalling the truth of
impermanence.
—Andrew Holecek, “The Supreme Contemplation”
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Sunday, May 30, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Transforming the World
By transforming ourselves, we transform the world, making it a saner, more compassionate place.
—Pema Düddul, “Practicing in Hell”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 30, 2021 💌
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Saturday, May 29, 2021
Listen to the vintage 1969 Ram Dass talk 'The Way of Harmony' 🌊
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Via Daily Dharma: The Dynamics of Life
Every
moment is a moment of birth. Every moment is a moment of death. Birth
and death are the two dynamics of life. Life itself is still.
—Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi, “A Matter of Life and Death”
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