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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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When
we’re trying to change ourselves or change the other, we’re essentially
rejecting what is arising in the present moment. And if we reject it,
we can’t really meet it. And if we can’t meet it, we can’t allow the
space for understanding, how come this has arisen?
Laura Bridgman, “The Dharma of Relationships: The Paramis in Action”
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You and I are in training to be conscious and compassionate in the truest, deepest sense - not romantically compassionate, but deeply compassionate. To be able to be an instrument of equanimity, an instrument of joy, presence, love, and availability, and at the same moment, absolutely quiet.
- Ram Dass -
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Finding
composure and acting with clarity and resolve, right in the midst of
your fears, is a form of generosity that in Buddhism is sometimes
referred to as “giving the gift of fearlessness.”
Marc Lesser, “Do Less, Accomplish More”
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Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 222 – The Dance of Sexual Energy
March 27, 2023