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Secular Buddhist. Stoic. Unitarian-Universalist.
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Beginners mind

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To live free from delusion is to live in a pure land. It is to see the world with a mind that is unclouded by attachment, aversion, or ignorance. It is to recognise that the pure land is not somewhere else, but right here, in the midst of our everyday lives. Goodnight everyone.

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"Master Sheng Yen's students liked this method very much, but no one was able to practice it—they just couldn’t get a handle on it, so the method fell into obscurity. In the early 1990s, through trial and error, Sheng Yen began to break down the practice into stages."

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Buddhist read: How do you know when to change things? By Ajahn Sumedho

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"Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to stay in a protected, limited, petty world is insane. Once you begin to get the feeling of how big the world is and how vast our potential for experiencing life is, then you really begin to understand renunciation." —Pema Chödrön

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Buddhist insights: The world of all living things is but emptiness, And so Guanyin’s compassionate heart is at rest. Some Guanyins (Avalokiteshvara) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Buddhist read: Patience requires us to go beyond the choice between fleeing or fighting. It is the third and most difficult way. Affectionate awareness starts being a real central value in our lives. 'Patient Awareness' by Corrado Pensa

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#goals

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"When we act on bodhichitta, we connect with our true nature—and with all of nature as well. We touch the earth, ego recedes, boundaries dissolve, and buddhanature manifests through our activities. no more dukkha. This is mahasukkha, the great sweetness of life."

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It's shallow to do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. Don't do! Relate to them as best serves the health of both them and community. Making anyone an object of ethics eventually comes to cruelty.

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But how can we be empathetic with narcissists and bigots? Understand them. Understand what they want. It's all based on the same attachments and aversions we stumble with. And set your boundaries firm. It does nothing for them for you to be a patsy.

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This is the core of how we proceed in our society of increasing brutality. It's the only real way forward. Blame and condemnation are the roots of regression.

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Buddhist practice: A Handful of Pain, by Diana St Ruth

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Morning meditation — To enter non-duality means to see. https://wp.me/pFy3u-9Ad

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The Buddha’s caution against clinging to views is a reminder that the ultimate goal of the Dharma is not the articulation of truth but the direct experience of it. Goodnight everyone.

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Some Buddhist insights: Don't know what to do, feeling a bit lost? Why not learn how to meditate with these easy-to-follow steps

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We don’t fight evil with weapons of war on an individual level. We fight it with the things that give us joy. That’s how we beat back the Power Behind the Nothing. Yes we also dismantle systemic racism & take care of each other I vote that keeping space for our joy also stays part of the work

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Buddhist read: Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort. 'The Breakthrough Sermon', by Bodhidharma

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A Basic Technique to Conquer Anger, aka The Enemy Within Which Bodhisattva, now revered as one of the 5 Wisdom Buddhas, made the extraordinary vow to not get angry until achieving enlightenment? #Mindfulness #ThichNhatHanh #Anger

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I see something metaphorical in the tragic fires devastating portions of the Inland Empire. Our nation is aflame; it's institutions in danger of being burned to ashes. There's a lot of blame being chucked like Molotov cocktails. Here is the actual source: suttafriends.org/sutta/sn35-28/

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