Because the mind is the basis of everything good or ill, nothing is more important than gaining control over the mind.
Friday, November 19, 2021
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: The Middle Way
There’s
a natural balance, a dance, between embracing and releasing: turning
your surroundings into yourself, like the tree that absorbs carbon
dioxide, and turning yourself into your surroundings, like the same tree
releasing oxygen. This is what Buddhists call the Middle Way.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Harsh Speech
Reflection
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Tomorrow: Reflecting upon Mental Action
One week from today: Refraining from Frivolous Speech
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One week from today: Refraining from Frivolous Speech
Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media
#DhammaWheel
Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 17, 2021 💌
Who dwells 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.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Living Fully
To
live fully means to be in touch with the impermanence of living in the
service of greater compassion and equanimity, like a steady bamboo reed
on a windy day.
—Anthony Tshering, “How the Concept of Impermanence Can Help Anxiety-Ridden Millennials”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // The VAGINA MUSEUM
Noteworthy
2019 -
The VAGINA MUSEUM opened in London's Camden Market; In July we talked about the Penis Museum, one of the top tourist attractions in Reykjavic, Iceland. Now, in a sort of response to its erection, it has a sister museum across the pond, in London. The Vagina Museum is the first of its kind and is driven by a mission for social justice and public health initiatives.
Visitors to the museum will discover informational posters and sculptures, a small shop with vaginally themed products and an events calendar that includes a dinner for Trans Day of Remembrance and "Cliterature" (book club) meetings.
"The anatomy has such complex politics around it that we found it was best to first engage people through what they know, so we can teach them things they don't know," said the museum curator, Sarah Creed. "It's all about unpacking social constructs and changing perspective through engagement."
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Via Tricycle // Dhamma Wheel
Dhamma Wheel
A 365-day program of dhamma study
A 365-day program of dhamma study
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Via Daily Dharma: What Is Prayer?
Prayer means accepting that I don’t know what’s good for me or for the world, but I trust that goodness exists anyway.
Monday, November 15, 2021
Via The Elders
LONDON, 15 November 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Elders deplore dereliction of leadership, as COP26 gives leaders twelve months to take more decisive action on climate crisis
Following the conclusion of COP26 in Glasgow, The Elders express their deep disappointment that world leaders have not yet had the courage to head off the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
The Elders call on the UN Secretary-General to take a direct lead in maintaining relentless pressure on the worst-performing states, until they do their part to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C. Such leadership should draw on his admirable new initiative to scrutinise net zero commitments made by businesses.
The Elders reiterate their determination to work with younger generations, and to keep fighting for climate justice alongside the nations and communities most vulnerable to climate change. This means wealthy countries keeping their promises on climate financing, and compensating those worst affected.
Some progress was made in the negotiations, including a commitment to double adaptation finance, and a requirement for countries with weak climate targets to improve them over the next twelve months.
Important voluntary side-deals were made to gradually stop using methane and coal, reverse deforestation and decarbonise the financial sector, while some countries showed leadership in pledging to end oil and gas production.
But the refusal to act at the scale and speed required means we are on course for a 2.4°C world. Such a temperature rise would mean hundreds hundreds of millions of people living today would face ruined livelihoods, displacement and loss of life.
This represents a failure of leadership and a failure of diplomacy. World leaders must be held accountable for the climate disaster playing out on their watch.
It is time to call out those who have obstructed the negotiations in Glasgow, and those who continue to downplay the climate emergency. This includes G20 countries that have not significantly increased their 2030 emission reduction targets, such as Australia, Brazil, China, Mexico and Russia, as well as those who insisted on watering down language on fossil fuels, including Saudi Arabia, India and others.
The United States and China, who delivered an encouraging joint statement on future co-operation, still have not shown the leadership required from the world’s two biggest carbon emitters. The European Union and US were lacking in high ambition at key points in the negotiations, notably on loss and damage. As the COP26 Presidency, the United Kingdom fell short on the leader-to-leader diplomacy needed to seal a better deal.
A pathway to 1.5°C is still just within reach, but only if major emitters take more decisive action in the next few years. The Elders implore all world leaders to bring their influence to bear on those holding back more urgent progress, and lead humanity away from existential disaster.
Mary Robinson, Chair of the Elders, and former President of Ireland said:
“COP26 has made some progress, but nowhere near enough to avoid climate disaster. While millions around the world are already in crisis, not enough leaders were in crisis mode. People will see this as a historically shameful dereliction of duty.
Leaders have extended by a year this window of opportunity to avert the worst of the climate crisis. The world urgently needs them to step up more decisively next year."
Via Daily Dharma: Heal Yourself and Others
We overcome deep-rooted self-centered habits by working compassionately for the healing of our societies and the healing of the earth. This is what’s required for the Buddhist path to become truly liberative in the modern world.
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy // Nāgārjuna
Nāgārjuna
First published Wed Feb 10, 2010; substantive revision Fri Jun 8, 2018
There is unanimous agreement that Nāgārjuna (ca 150–250 CE) is the most important Buddhist philosopher after the historical Buddha himself and one of the most original and influential thinkers in the history of Indian philosophy. His philosophy of the “middle way” (madhyamaka) based around the central notion of “emptiness” (śūnyatā) influenced the Indian philosophical debate for a thousand years after his death; with the spread of Buddhism to Tibet, China, Japan and other Asian countries the writings of Nāgārjuna became an indispensable point of reference for their own philosophical inquiries. A specific reading of Nāgārjuna’s thought, called Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka, became the official philosophical position of Tibetan Buddhism which regards it as the pinnacle of philosophical sophistication up to the present day.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 14, 2021 💌
To live consciously you must have the courage to go inside yourself to
find out who you really are, to understand that behind all of the masks
of individual differences you are a being of beauty, of love, of
awareness.
When Christ said, “The kingdom of heaven is within” he wasn’t just
putting you on. When Buddha said, “Each person is the Buddha,” he was
saying the same thing. Until you can allow your own beauty, your own
dignity, your own being, you cannot free another.
So if I were giving people one instruction, I would say work on
yourself. Have compassion for yourself. Allow yourself to be beautiful
and all the rest will follow.
- Ram Dass -
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