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Morning Meditation | Kindness

Sitting. Waiting.

Even when it feels quiet. Even when it feels hard. Even when the mind says otherwise.

Remembering: The hand that held the door. The stranger who smiled. The friend who stayed. The kindness that did not need a reason.

I live in a world touched by kindness. I am not alone.

[mountain-sage]

Master Padma taught us:

To arouse Bodhicitta, the mind set upon supreme enlightenment, before undertaking any Dharma practice, is most important.

The person who has aroused Bodhicitta will cultivate the feeling of equality that all beings are his mothers, free from partiality and prejudice, in order to serve all sentient beings.

Of all sentient beings there is not a single one who has not been your own father or mother. So as a way of repaying the kindness of all sentient beings, set out to work for their well-being.

Cultivate loving-kindness and compassion for all sentient beings.

Constantly train yourself in Bodhicitta. Train yourself to benefit sentient beings through all your actions. Train yourself in cherishing others as more important than yourself.

In short, the most essential point is that the determination of arousing Bodhicitta must precede all the outer and inner practices and the stages of development and completion.

Generation of Bodhicitta is the very root of all Dharma practice.

- Dakini Teachings - Rangjung Yeshe Publications

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其实一切果报都来源于贪念、我执重。生生世世的罪，你要是着相忏悔的话，是忏不完的。但是用空性的智慧来忏悔、消业，一念正念就能消无量劫的业。

In reality, all karmic consequences stem from greed and self-attachment. If you repent with attachment, you will never eliminate the negative karma from countless lifetimes. However, if you repent with the wisdom of emptiness, a single thought of mindfulness can eliminate negative karma accumulated over countless eons.

——摘自《因果明镜论29》

From《The Mirror of Causality 29》

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Awakened Heart Bodhichitta: A Broken Heart 💔 Pema Chödrön: "An analogy for bodhichitta is the rawness of a broken heart. Sometimes this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment, and blame. But under the hardness of that armor there is the tenderness of genuine sadness. This is our link with all those who have ever loved. This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great tenderness of genuine sadness. It can humble us when we’re arrogant and soften us when we are unkind. It awakens us when we prefer to sleep and pierces through our indifference. This continual ache of the heart is a blessing that when accepted fully can be shared with all." — Pema Chödrön, “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times.” #Bodhichitta (at New Haven Zen Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWIvcYbLf_z/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Bodhichitta is available in moments of caring for things, when we clean our glasses or brush our hair. It's available in moments of appreciation, when we notice the blue sky or pause and listen to the rain. It is available in moments of gratitude, when we recall a kindness or recognize another person's courage. It is available in music and dance, in art, and in poetry. Whenever we let go of holding on to ourselves and look at the world around us, whenever we connect with sorrow, whenever we connect with joy, whenever we drop our resentment and complaint, in those moments bodhichitta is there.

-Pema Chödrön

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On Spiritual Bypassing the Imperial Vestiges

All spirituality is attempting to bypass something, sometimes it's healthy, and sometimes it's malignant, and those distinctions are entirely situational and relative, as frequently internal realities are not visible or readily discernable via external demeanor or actions. Fundamentally the concept of spiritual bypassing pits contemporary Western Psychology at odds with spiritual systems that do not necessarily share the same cultural context or world view, and it does so with an attribution of intrinsic superiority to Western Psychology. This is a consistent blunder reflective of the imperial tendencies still deeply vested in Western culture and academia. Again and again, when speaking of spirituality, and religion in general we need to keep a working definition in mind. In this I feel that the famed anthropologist Clifford Geertz has done a wonderful job in proposing that religion is a "special system of symbols" that primarily accomplishes four things, namely it: 1.) Establishes powerful "moods and motivations" in people 2.) Formulates a "general order of existence" 3.) Makes these conceptions appear as fact, and  4.) Makes these moods and motivations seem "uniquely realistic" It's arguable that most of what we do in life could be cast as religion via this metric, and it's thus advisable to keep perspective, as some disciplines such as psychology lend themselves more to this definition than do others. In light of this so much of the spiritual bypassing argument simply becomes an imperial crusade.  ~Sunyananda

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A PAINTING OF AMITABHA IN SUKHAVATI QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)