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Practicing being a kind human. We all rise together. I vote to protect our planet and all living beings. Cancer has been my teacher.
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"Multiplication of courage based in clarity and compassion action is a formidable power."
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We Have a Choice: Responding to the Craziness with Balance — Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
In the 70s, I was part of a small invitation-only class led by Ram Dass, a key figure in my spiritual journey. There were strict guidelines regarding diet, meditation and celibacy that each of us was ...
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February 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The tech-bro apocalypse...is born out of the misery of those who have a lot and can never have enough.
#HungryGhosts are tormented by desire. With tiny mouths and throats, and swollen, hungry bellies, they can never get enough to ease their suffering.
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February 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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When compassionate insight guides thoughts and actions, it brings hope and joy, www.compassmethods.com. youtube.com/@compassions... #hope
February 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Tai Situ Rinpoche

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#BuddhistQuotes #DharmaTeachings #MindfulLiving #Vajrayana #BuddhistWisdom #TibetanBuddhism #Buddha
Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: When something is going too far somebody has to stand up and say something, otherwise everybody will just follow the crowd so that nothing changes. In this way, so many people will suffer, which is not only unnecessary but negative. The Buddhist view of this is very clear. — Tai Situ Rinpoche 🔗 See more: buddhistdoor.net
February 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Just as a stone tossed into a still pond creates wavelets in any direction, every act—indeed every thought—is believed to have infinite repercussions in realms seen and unseen.

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One need not wait until war is declared and bullets are flying to work for peace, Buddhism teaches. A more constant and equally urgent battle must be waged each day against the forces of one’s own anger, carelessness, and self-absorption. By Kenneth Kraft
February 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"It’s ultimately knowing that #love liberates. Maybe with this type of engagement with the world, we can effect collective #change."

#Metta #Karuna #Interbeing

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Breathe in for all those who are suffering and allow yourself to be touched by their current vulnerability. Breathe out, letting the heartbeat transform their sorrow: “May all beings be free of suffering.”
February 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Sign up for Rep. Thompson’s virtual town hall tomorrow evening at 6 PM PST (Feb. 6th, 6 PM)
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#indivisibleyolo #sisterdistrict3
Office Locations | Representative Mike Thompson
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February 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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"...sometimes we're surprised to find out who we are and how much we care and how brave that care makes us. That's our human nature, and it's beautiful and powerful and makes us dangerous to dictators."
#wearenotwhotheythinkweare
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 4
from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...
We Are Not Who They Think We Are: How Human Nature Matters In This Emergency Rebecca Solnit 04 Feb 2025 — 10 min read Welcome to the emergency--or rather Meditations in an Emergency, this newsletter, not the national emergency, which is of course very unwelcome. What's striking to me about all the things our morally and imaginatively impoverished billionaires, notably Musk and Trump, right now is: they do not expect or imagine or understand consequences. Any of them– their theory of change seems to be that they are going to do stuff and then it will be done. Like they're moving furniture around, like you and I and the trans and immigrant communities and federal workers and Canada and Mexico are just so many sofas and chairs that are going to sit where they place us. Like we're inanimate objects. Maybe everything is dead in the sad lonely worldview inside their head. Which would also explain their recalcitrance about climate and nature: if you see it as a collection of inert objects rather than an intricate living system in which what you do to any one part may affect the whole, you grant yourself more license to meddle. But today I'm here to talk about the human--and human nature, and how they misunderstand that too.
February 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Bhikkhu Bodhi, one of Buddhism’s leading activists and scholars, says there are 4 steps we need to take to resist Trumpism.
#engagedbuddhism #buddhism

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It’s No Time to Be Neutral
Bhikkhu Bodhi, one of Buddhism’s leading activists and scholars, says there are four steps we need to take to resist Trumpism.
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November 20, 2024 at 12:44 PM
werall2gether.bsky.social
"Renunciation does not have to be regarded as negative. I was taught that it has to do with letting go of holding back. What one is renouncing is closing down and shutting off from life. You could say that renunciation is the same thing as opening to the teachings of the present moment."
tricyclemag.bsky.social Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · Feb 4
"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
Renunciation
Every time we are willing to let the story line go, and every time we are willing to let go at the end of the out breath, that's renunciation.
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February 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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"Your body is your first home: 'Breathing in, I arrive in my body. Breathing out, I am home.' — Thich Nhat Hanh ##mindfulness ##wellness ##stressrelief
January 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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"Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
- Rumi
Buddhist altar in the morning light; statue of Kwan Yin, candle, incense holder, blue corn, on a wood table.
January 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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From inner disturbance, comes outer disturbance.
From inner peace, comes outer peace.
All of the hate and love in this world has come from within.
Until inner peace is practiced by all, there will be no end to the fighting.
~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

#Tibet #Buddha #Tara #Peace #Kind #Freedom #True
January 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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"There is no way to peace; peace is the way." AJ Muste
"We need to manifest it in every step. Not running for something in the future, but being peace in this moment, because the future is made in this moment." Kaira Jewel Lingo
#Equinimity #Dharma #Buddism
January 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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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
January 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Our spiritual life depends upon knowing that we are both consciousness itself and wholly flawed and human—our practice is to learn to love both.

Jack Kornfield, “Finding Freedom Right Here, Right Now”

Yep.
January 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Buddhist Quote of the Day 🙏🏾📿🪷 #BQOTD #Buddhist #Buddhism #thichnhathanh
January 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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🌷🙏💎 ~ "At one point I was particularly saddened about the situation of Tibet, but then I remembered that I had taken the Bodhisattva vows and every day frequently reflected on Shantideva’s prayer:

'As long as the sky exists
And as long as there are sentient beings,
May I remain to help 🧵
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
werall2gether.bsky.social
"The idea of slowing down is not about getting answers, it is about questioning our questions"...“what if the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis?”
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A Slower Urgency • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
I learned, a long time ago, about a particular saying from the continent I grew up on: “the times are urgent; let us slow down.”
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January 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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dailydharm.bsky.social
The lotus blooms in muddy water, untouched by its surroundings.

Similarly, we can rise above challenges, staying grounded in our true nature, no matter the chaos that may surround us.
January 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Buddhist Quote for Today: Jon Kabat-Zinn

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#buddhistquotes #buddha #dharma #buddhism #wisdom #mahayana #usa #zen #mbsr #liberation #mindfulness #meditation #compassion #peace #buddhistpractice #bodhisattva #quoteoftheday
Buddhist Quote for Today: Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But it is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma. — Jon Kabat-Zinn See more: buddhistdoor.net
January 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Today, JON KABAT-ZINN. This yearlong series "Awareness in Action" is a call to action by extraordinary teachers who are deeply concerned about our shared future. Join us! Includes Rebecca Solnit, Terry Tempest Williams, Fr Greg Boyle, many others.
January 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"The expression of emptiness is love, because emptiness means “emptiness of self.” When there is no self, there is no other. That duality is created by the idea of self, of I, of ego.
#JosephGoldstein, The Experience of #Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to #Buddhist #Meditation
January 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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In honor of #MLKJrDay and all peace activists, current and past, I vow to practice #karuna.

I see suffering and I care.
I care for those who are suffering.
May all beings find peace and live with ease.
May all beings be filled with loving-kindness.

#brahmaviharas #dharma #buddhism
January 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM