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, May 14, 2023
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 14, 2023 💌
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States
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Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Mind and Reality
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
Bodhidharma, “Bodhidharma’s Teachings”
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Friday, May 12, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Intoxication
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Via Daily Dharma: Recognizing Your Reflection
If
you’ve never seen your image before, looking in a mirror you’d think
you were gazing through a window, encountering someone altogether
independent of you. But a mirror, like the mind, is reflective—it only
shows you yourself.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, “Prayer: Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche”
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Social Action
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Via Daily Dharma: Realizing Emptiness as Love
The
fullness of the spiritual path is the understanding that love, that
compassion, is the expression of emptiness. These are not two separate
things; one is an attribute of the other.
Joseph Goldstein, “Love as the Expression of Emptiness”
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Frivolous Speech
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