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Post by t-bob on Dec 2, 2019 9:16:13 GMT -5
The Power of a Single Person
You need to pay attention to what is going on. You should never think that you can’t make a difference in this world. You can. That is very, very important to understand.
—Interview with Losang Samten by Anne Doran and Frank Olinsky, “The Mandala Master
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Post by t-bob on Dec 3, 2019 9:42:24 GMT -5
Letting Your Desires Pass
The next time you have some wanting or desire in the mind, investigate what the wanting feels like and then notice how it feels when the wanting passes away. Given the great law of impermanence, it always will.
—Joseph Goldstein, “The End of Suffering”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 4, 2019 10:22:12 GMT -5
What Is Personal Transformation?
The path of personal transformation is about deconstructing and reconstructing the self, or, more precisely, the relationship between the self and its world.
—David Loy, “Awakening in the Age of Climate Change
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Post by t-bob on Dec 5, 2019 9:12:19 GMT -5
Enter Your Practice with Ease
Practice isn’t about being intense; it’s about coming back to ease—letting the mind and body settle into an experience that holds the seeds of expansiveness.
—Justin von Bujdoss, “Tilopa’s Six Nails”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 5, 2019 13:53:19 GMT -5
I wake up 8am CST and I think about next today and remember the good last day. I don’t think about ageism. I know all of you are old as well. I have eight errands today. I have two schedules. I checked your daily threads. My landlord wrote this text... “Ants and insects are part of the fauna flora of Puerto Vallarta as the lease says, they are harmless in fact in my house there is and in all of Vallarta” my response “ I don’t like ants with my food” that seems reasonable
Next topic It’s time to eat shower shave smile play/practice I haven’t checked out the weather with two eyes ears. I just went outside. it’s 70F with a breeze Good morning
EDIT: I watched a Netflix documentary - Guatemala I went there 2008 with my exwife. That’s a memory....
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Post by t-bob on Dec 6, 2019 9:16:09 GMT -5
The Miracle of Awareness
For this is who and what we are: constellations of matter, vulnerable, impermanent, and—for moments? for lifetimes?—illumined by the miracle of awareness. Whether fleeting or eternal, it’s a miracle that we must never take for granted.
—Noelle Oxenhandler, “Awake and Demented”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 7, 2019 10:10:39 GMT -5
Observe Without Judgment
In the practice of meditation, we use our nonjudgmental awareness to get in touch with our feelings and what’s going on in our bodies without adding our narratives or dramas to it. We just see what comes up.
—Gerry Shishin Wick, “The Great Heart Way”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 8, 2019 10:24:45 GMT -5
Noticing What We Can Change
When we succumb with grace to the fact that we are, basically, hopeless cases, we have an extraordinary opportunity to discover in what sense we are not hopeless.
—Henry Shukman, “The Art of Being Wrong”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 9, 2019 9:48:49 GMT -5
Appreciate the Precious Present Moment
All things already have their endings within them. If we become attuned to this, then we can appreciate the moment. We can appreciate the extraordinary fact of our unique and precious lives.
—Thanissara, “The Grit That Becomes a Pearl
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Post by t-bob on Dec 10, 2019 9:07:32 GMT -5
Work with What You Have
Until enlightenment, our practice is vulnerable, our meditation and conduct both prone to wobble. Nonetheless, until we do confirm our innate wisdom, we need to work at it as best we can.
—Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede, “Don’t Just Sit There”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 11, 2019 9:09:01 GMT -5
The Beauty of Impermanence
When we can accept that people and things are always shifting and changing, our hearts can open.
—Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, “The Hunger for Home”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 12, 2019 10:56:41 GMT -5
Uncovering Enlightenment
Enlightenment is not a matter of adding anything but rather of peeling away the false, fabricated sense of self to allow the innate Buddha being to emerge.
—Judith Hooper, “Prozac & Enlightened Mind”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 13, 2019 9:12:54 GMT -5
How to Let Go
We can’t simply “let go.” It doesn’t work like that. It’s certainly not what the Buddha teaches. Letting go, the Buddha tells us, will come when we “develop” wisdom.
—Peter Doobinin, “Sutta Study: The Ship”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 14, 2019 11:27:16 GMT -5
Examining Our Actions and Intentions
In trying to cultivate lucidity regarding our own actions, we gradually become smarter about ourselves, more sensitive to other people, and more nuanced in our actions.
—Krishnan Venkatesh, “How to Practice Right Speech Anywhere, Anytime, and With Anyone”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 15, 2019 10:16:50 GMT -5
Opening to All Things Equally
Equanimity contains the complete willingness to behold the pleasant and the painful events of life equally. It points to a deep balance in which you are not pushed and pulled between the coercive energies of desire and aversion.
—Shaila Catherine, “Equanimity in Every Bite”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 16, 2019 9:53:12 GMT -5
Examine Your Intention
The Buddha’s focus was volition, intentional motivation. Everything hangs on motivation and understanding as clearly as possible the individual’s own motivation underlying all action.
—Interview with John Peacock by James Shaheen, “Investigating the Buddha’s World”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 17, 2019 9:09:23 GMT -5
Understanding Buddhism
If our goal is to understand Buddhism accurately and to integrate it into our own lives authentically, we have to develop deep understanding both of Buddhist tradition and of ourselves.
—Linda Heuman, “A New Way Forward”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 18, 2019 12:36:12 GMT -5
What Happens When You Still Your Mind
Our mind is analogous to a cup of muddy water. The longer you keep a cup of muddy water still, the more the mud settles down and the water will be seen clearly.
—Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “Sitting Still”
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Post by t-bob on Dec 19, 2019 10:15:06 GMT -5
What Can Humility Make Room For?
Our commitment to awakening asks us to honestly explore the ways in which conceit manifests in our lives and to find the way to its end. The cessation of conceit allows the fruition of empathy, kindness, compassion, and awakening.
—Christina Feldman, “Long Journey to a Bow
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Post by t-bob on Dec 20, 2019 9:39:58 GMT -5
Recognizing Our Precious Human Life
Compassion for others builds self-confidence, as does remembering our precious human life, its meaning, purpose, and rarity.
—H. H. the Dalai Lama and Ven. Thubten Chodron, “The Self-Confidence of a Bodhisattva”
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