Saturday, July 3, 2021

Via EBMG / FB: Roadkill Bodhisvatta

 

Thanks to Kusala Bhikshu for sharing this prayer and the image, "Roadkill Bodhisvatta," by zen poet and illustrator Richard Wehrman.
 
'Buddhist Prayer for Dying Animals'...
 
"Oh Buddhas & Bodhisattvas of the ten directions and three times, please protect and guide (your animal’s name) on her/his journey. May he/she be free from fear and clinging to this life. May she/he have a happy and successful rebirth... 
 
OM MANI PADME HUM
OM MANI PADME HUM
OM MANI PADME HUM
 
... OM MANI PADME HUM - is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. This rhythmic chant literally translates to “Praise to the Jewel in the Lotus.”

Friday, July 2, 2021

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Via Daily Dharma: From Rocks to Sparkling Dew

 

Gradually [our negative emotions] begin to feel less alien, less like obstacles in the way, rocks in the path. Our deepening awareness becomes a kind of dew, falling on everything equally, allowing everything to sparkle.

—Noelle Oxenhandler, “Ah, But the Breezes…”

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Thursday, July 1, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Learning From Our Mistakes

 

If you’ve made mistakes in the past but have now learned not to repeat them, you brighten the world like a moon when released from a cloud.

—Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Why Shame Gets a Bad Rap”

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 30, 2021 💌


 

We're all just walking each other home.

- Ram Dass -
 

Via Tricycle // How to Follow the Bodhisattva Path without Burning Out

 

 
How to Follow the Bodhisattva Path without Burning Out
By Radhule Weininger
 
Addressing suffering isn’t an easy job. By “deepening our love for the world,” we can find the energy and motivation to sustain us in the long term as we search for solutions. 
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Via Daily Dharma: What Is Equanimity?

 

Equanimity is said to be an anchor. It protects you against the “worldly winds”—pleasure and pain, praise and blame, gain and loss, and fame and disrepute—by keeping you anchored so you’re not tossed about by those winds.

—Daisy Hernández, “The Noble Abode of Equanimity”

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Let Yourself Live Fully

 

The effort we make in meditation is a willingness to be open, to come close to what we have avoided, to be patient with ourselves and others, and to let go of our preconceptions, our projections, and our tendency not to live fully.

—Sharon Salzberg, “Sticking with It”

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Via Daily Dharma: Hearing Silence

 

To know what a person says, we must hear what remains unsaid. If we cannot hear silence, we do not know how to listen.

—Mark C. Taylor, “Hearing Silence”

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Monday, June 28, 2021

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Via Lama Surya Das


 

When we’re motivated by compassion, our minds are relaxed and at ease. Fear and suspicion make us anxious so that even if we’re well-off we’re unhappy. Having a sense that other human beings are our brothers and sisters sets the mind at rest. These days we often rely on material things to be happy. What we need to do is to introduce a sense of inner values, compassion and affection, into our system of education. ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama 

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Sunday, June 27, 2021

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 27, 2021 💌

 
 

We get so emotionally preoccupied with the thing that is wrong with us, that it starts to color all of the ways in which we see the world around us...  

In the course of spiritual awakening, our social perceptions keep changing as we do this spiritual work. Many of us are in the peculiar predicament that we have built an entire ego structure about who we are and how we function, based on these emotionally-laden habits about individual differences...   

...Maharaji kept saying to me, ‘Ram Dass don’t you see it’s all perfect? Everybody is being just who they are.’

- Ram Dass

Excerpt from Ram Dass Here & Now Podcast - Ep. 103 - Individual Differences

Via Tricycle // How to Choose Joy

 

How to Choose Joy
By Amanda Gilbert
Joy isn’t just an emotion—it’s an intentional practice. The first step? Tuning in to the countless sources of joy available to you every day. 
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Via Daily Dharma: Clear Your Path

 

When the way ahead is open and clear and one has the goodwill, light-heartedness, and courage to tread it, the past and the future melt into nothingness.

—Diana St. Ruth, “The Way”

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