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A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
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Through
the lens of the dharma, the body is revealed to be a precious gift with
which we may pursue the great opportunity of awakening.
Matthew Gindin, “The Body in Buddhadharma: Three Perspectives”
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Spiritual practices, compared to having sex or compared to taking coke
or something, is more like delayed gratification versus immediate
gratification. So when you start to stand back and see your predicament
and see what you’re doing, there’s a way, from a spiritual perspective,
in which you begin with that slight bit of awareness to extricate
yourself from the chain of reactivity that we’re talking about.
From Here & Now Podcast - Ep. 186 – The Chain of Reactivity
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Our
minds, not our hearing organs, make the distinction between sound and
silence. But if you practice listening until you no longer make
distinctions, you develop a power that is liberating.
Dharma Master Hsin Tao, “Listening to Silence”
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The
sitting posture itself can be a kind of crucible for burning off the
tensions and restrictions to body and breath that all too often keep us
lost in thought and unaware of feeling presence.
Will Johnson, “Full Body, Empty Mind”
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