If
you pay attention for just five minutes, you know some very fundamental
dharma: things change, nothing stays comfortable, sensations come and
go quite impersonally.
Sylvia Boorstein, “Body as Body”
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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.
If
you pay attention for just five minutes, you know some very fundamental
dharma: things change, nothing stays comfortable, sensations come and
go quite impersonally.
Sylvia Boorstein, “Body as Body”
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In
comparison to emotions, which come and go and sometimes mistakenly lead
us into thinking there is danger, values provide a steady hand that
reminds us about the kind of person we want to be.
Yael Schonbrun, “How to Make a Decision When There Are No Good Choices”
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The
techniques we learn on the meditation cushion are not meant just for
the cushion. After all, we’re not creating suffering for ourselves only
on the cushion. We go through life. So we’re going to take those
techniques and use them on a day-to-day basis.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “The Buddha’s Alternative to Acting Out in Anger”
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