Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Lovingkindness

 


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RIGHT INTENTION
Cultivating Lovingkindness
Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis on which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on lovingkindness, for when you develop meditation on lovingkindness, all ill will will be abandoned. (MN 62) 

The manifestation of lovingkindness is the removal of annoyance. (Vm 9.93)
Reflection
Only one experience occurs at a time. Each one replaces the one before it and is itself replaced by the next. This happens in rapid succession as the stream of consciousness flows on. It feels like a continuous event, much as the still images displayed rapidly in a movie theater merge into a flowing story, but in fact, each mind moment is organized around a single object, with a single emotional response.

Daily Practice
This means that when you are feeling kindly or benevolent toward a particular person or in a particular situation, you cannot at the same time feel ill will or anger or annoyance. The beauty of lovingkindness is that it replaces negative emotions in the mind. Next time you feel even slightly annoyed by someone or something, try conjuring up an attitude of kindness toward something and watch the annoyance disappear.

Tomorrow: Refraining from False Speech
One week from today: Cultivating Compassion

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Via Daily Dharma: Grief and Love

 

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Grief and Love

Grief is an expression of the loss of something meaningful, which means I had, at least for a time, the opportunity to experience love—true, real, meaningful, heartfelt love.

Valerie Brown, “The Lightness of Breathing”


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It’s Not Too Late
Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with James Shaheen and Sharon Salzberg
Rebeca Solnit is determined to change the narrative of despair in the face of the climate crisis. In this piece, Solnit explores the dangers of hyperindividualism, the spiritual power of renunciation, and why she believes that beauty is an essential piece of activist work. 
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Review
Directed by Maso Chen
An intimate portrayal of illness, spiritual care, and letting go, Review follows three people with terminal illness and their reflections on life and spiritual explorations before death. Subscribers can stream the film on Tricycle’s Film Club all month long.
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Monday, February 19, 2024

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering

 


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RIGHT VIEW
Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering
When people have met with suffering and become victims of suffering, they come to me and ask me about the noble truth of suffering. Being asked, I explain to them the noble truth of suffering. (MN 77) What is suffering? (MN 9)

Death is suffering. The passing away of beings, their dissolution, disappearance, dying, completion of time, dissolution of aggregates, laying down of the body. (MN 9)
Reflection
It is natural that we experience a great deal of mental pain when someone we love dies. Such pain is an inevitable part of life. The Buddha never said there is a way to make pain go away. How much suffering it causes, however, is another matter. Pain is amplified by our resentment of it and our resistance to it, and by our wishing it would go away. Pain is diminished by our turning toward it, accepting it, and attempting to learn from it.

Daily Practice
Reflect on the poignancy of death, either the death of someone dear to you or your own inevitable death. Allow yourself to feel the sorrow, which is an expression of mental pain. This is natural. Also allow yourself to feel strong, whole, and balanced in the midst of the sorrow. Mental pain, like physical pain, is something to be examined carefully and with equanimity. We need not feel overwhelmed by it.    

Tomorrow: Cultivating Lovingkindness
One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering

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Via Daily Dharma: Behind Our Behavior

 

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Behind Our Behavior

Sometimes our most obvious destructive behaviors conceal something else that is even more difficult for us to acknowledge. We may be willing to acknowledge our anger, but unwilling to look at the fear and vulnerability beneath it.

Aura Glaser, “Into the Demon’s Mouth”


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The “Twitter Monk”
By Emma Varvaloucas
How Haemin Sunim, internationally known as the “Twitter monk,” came up against the internet’s ‘cancel’ culture, prompting questions of the ethical responsibilities of a modern practitioner.
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Review
Directed by Maso Chen
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Via White Crane Institute // ANDRÉ GIDE

 

Died
Andre Gide
1951 -

ANDRÉ GIDE, French writer, Nobel laureate died (b. 1869); Not unlike Gore Vidal and Truman Capote sniping at one another like Paulette Goddard and Rosalind Russell in The Women, the feud between Gide and Jean Cocteau was a low point in both their careers. The feud, which lasted for more than forty years, all public, stemmed from simple, mortal jealousy between these two cultural gods. Gide was enraged that Cocteau had kept his young lover, Marc Allégret out all night and had, presumably, slept with him. Gide confessed years later that he wanted to kill his rival but decided the word was bloodier than the sword.

Young Andre Gide
2018 -

TODAY'S GAY WISDOM

The wisdom of Andre Gide:

 Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better - Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable - Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide

Dare to be yourself. - Andre Gide

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves, in finding themselves. - Andre Gide

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless, No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. - Andre Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time - Andre Gide

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity - Andre Gide


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