Awakening
reveals the no-thingness of things—that no thing is apart from all
other things. To realize truly that there is only this nature, with no
“other” outside us, is to naturally want to refrain from causing harm,
just as we refrain from doing harm to one of our own limbs or eyes.
Bodhin Kjolhede, “Pain, Passion, and the Precepts”
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Friday, February 4, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Real Wisdom is Compassion
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Verbal Action
Reflecting Upon Verbal Action
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One week from today: Reflecting upon Mental Action
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Via Daily Dharma: Befriending Your Breath
The
breath is like a soothing friend holding your hand as you walk into
fear or loneliness or anger, encouraging you to stay with it. And if you
feel like running away, observe that. And the breath is always there,
in, out, in, out.
Interview with Larry Rosenberg by Amy Gross, “The Art of Doing Nothing”
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Via Lion's Roar // Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are; How to Practice Hugging Meditation; The Mindful Bodhisattva
Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are |
The African philosophy of ubuntu
teaches that we are human only through the humanity of others.
Buddhists of African descent explore the synergy between ubuntu and the
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Malicious Speech
RIGHT SPEECH
Refraining from Malicious Speech |
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One week from today: Refraining from Harsh Speech
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 2, 2022 💌
It says in the Tao, “Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.”
The way I hear this in psychology is: motivation affects perception.
When I’m hungry, I see what’s edible. If I’m horny, I see what’s
makeable. If I’m tired, I see what’s soft, you know, my motivation
selects out of the infinity of the universe what it is that fits in with
my desires.
Since that’s the case, as long as you’re identified with your desires,
you can’t help but manipulate the universe to try to bring about that
gratification of your desires. If you carry that to its ultimate truth,
you see that everybody around you is an object to be manipulated to
give you that gratification.
So if it says, “Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing,” what does it
mean to have an eye unclouded by longing? It’s the place in your being,
in your awareness, which is not totally identified with your desire
system.
My sense is that to the extent you are not attached to your desire
systems, you are able to hear other human beings, and you do less of
projecting into them what you need, and the result is that out of your
action comes responses which are more compassionate to who they are than
your need at the moment.
So this doesn’t mean you don’t have desires, but rather there is a
paradox that’s hard to work with, which is this: “What does it mean to
be fully involved in life and non-attached?”
- Ram Dass
Via Daily Dharma: Work With What’s There
You
don’t escape from your delusions in zazen. Instead, you look straight
at them, since you have to work with them. This is the paradox. You
never enter a promised paradise in which there will be no delusion. But
all your delusions are workable. If they weren’t, I think we’d all go
mad.
Jakusho Kwong-roshi, “Emptying into Spaciousness”
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - January 30, 2022 💌
We’ve been talking about balance—that the game is not to push away the
world, the game is not to get caught in it—the game is to, as Christ
said, ‘Be in the world, but not of the world,’ to be simultaneously
empty and full, to be somebody and nobody. It’s all these paradoxes you
have to embrace. There’s nothing to do, so get on with it.” - Ram Dass
Excerpt from Episode 191 of the Ram Dass Here & Now podcast
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: The Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering
Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering
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One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
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Via Daily Dharma: Uncovering Intrinsic Beauty
When
we’ve traced the senses back to the mind’s intrinsic radiance, every
experience becomes the path—beautiful in the beginning, the middle, and
the end, just as the Buddha said.
Kurt Spellmeyer, “Awakened by Beauty”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Compassion
RIGHT INTENTION
Cultivating Compassion |
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One week from today: Cultivating Appreciative Joy
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Via Daily Dharma: Finding Yourself in No-Self
It’s
not that there’s no self, because that’s ridiculous. You’re you, and
I’m me. But the self doesn’t exist in the way we imagined it does. . . .
Try to find it as it really exists, not as you think it should.
“The Zen of Therapy”, Interview with Mark Epstein by James Shaheen
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
Via White Crane Institute // Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King died in Rosarito Beach, Mexico on this day. The great civil-rights activist and tireless supporter of Gay Rights succumbed to complications from a stroke and ovarian cancer. In arguing against a constitutional amendment banning Gay marriage King said, "Gay and Lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriage."
In 2003, she invited the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to take part in observances of the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. It was the first time that an LGBT rights group had been invited to a major event of the African American community. King said her husband supported the quest for equality by LGBT people and reminded her critics that the 1963 March on Washington was organized by Bayard Rustin, an openly Gay civil rights activist.
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and the First Jhāna
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