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.
Monday, February 20, 2023
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna
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Via Daily Dharma: Each Sit Is New
One of the hardest things to remember about practice is that we’ve truly never before experienced this moment.
Alex Tzelnic, “How to Resist the Comfort of Repetition”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 19, 2023 💌
One part of getting free, free into the soul or the witness, is the ability to stand back a little bit because now you are identified with being the witness rather than being the player, and thus you can see the play more clearly.
- Ram Dass -
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna
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Via Daily Dharma: Navigating the Karmic Stream
While
I did not set in motion the karmic stream, it’s nonetheless up to me as
to how I negotiate its currents. I can go with the current, swim
against it, or seek a shoreline, but the currents and eddies of the
stream are forever shifting and leave me no option but to continually
decide what to do.
Tricycle, “Ten Thousand Miles”
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Saturday, February 18, 2023
Via Tricycle // A Practical Guide to the Zen Precepts
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