The
difference between an unwise person and a wise person lies in how they
respond to pain, not in whether or not they achieve an absence of pain.
Vidyamala Burch, “A Gateway to Freedom”
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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.
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Getting Wise About Pain
Via Emergence Magazine // Radical Technologies in Times of Crisis
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and the Second Jhāna
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - December 11, 2022 💌
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Choosing to Pause
When
we develop self-control and tolerance toward our difficult feelings and
impulses, instead of behaving thoughtlessly or reactively, we can
choose not to act at all.
Kimberly Brown, “What You’re Not Doing Matters”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States
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Friday, December 9, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Wishing All Beings Well
Our
ability to wish well impartially is connected to our ability to let go
of the fixed views that cause distress to arise in the mind.
Sylvia Boorstein, “The Whole of the Path”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Taking What is Not Given
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