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Cueva de Milarepa, en #Tibet

Although our biases and habits of mind can run deep, the way we perceive the world and attend to life can shift radically through mental training or meditation, a significant enhancer of neuroplasticity. Joan Halifax

Standing at the edge, our determination to meet the world of suffering becomes a calling as we discover that compassion is the great vehicle that delivers us from suffering and gives us power, balance, and ultimately freedom, no matter what we have faced. Joan Halifax

For the brave reader 😉 kenneth-chan.com/physics/direct…

Readying the Refuge for winter: water turned off; fire wood for stove; front gate reinforced. Now back at Upaya and the practice period.

A great read aeon.co/essays/why-mod…

Excellent thread

"To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections." Dogen

"And what is the way leading to the cessation of kamma? Just this noble eightfold path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right concentration" Anguttara Nikaya

Its greatness is what sets Dzogchen and all nondual reality apart. Recognition and identity with it in the here and now render all affective emotion pure and simple and its ultimate cognitive aspect supreme. Great compassion infuses every Dzogchen moment. Keith Dowman

In the Dzogchen view there is never anything but compassion. Nothing exists but compassion. Compassion is the whole story Keith Dowman

A real treasure, indeed

Fascinating

Nonviolence can provide a very effective response in situations of global conflict. We can define three types of response to global conflict: peacemaking, peace building, and peacekeeping. Sulak Sivaraksa

Today, and every Sunday from 10-11am MT, we will have our weekly Link teaching. The Link teachings explore Buddhism from the practitioner’s perspective. Today's link will be given by Chris Holland. We welcome you to join via bit.ly/3n4k063 May it benefit all beings!

For the dead the scientific knowledge of food will be of no use whatever. Zen therefore does not rely on the intellect for the solution of its deepest problems. D. T. Suzuki

Very interesting video youtu.be/V41CO9GQCG0

Thangtong Gyalpo, considered to be the patron saint of theatre and became known as "the madman of the empty land". He was also known as lChakzampa, the "Iron Bridge Maker and was a great Buddhist adept, yogi, physician, blacksmith and architect. Greetings on #WorldTheatreDay2022

A good reminder

No one in the sensual, aesthetic, or formless realms has revealed the secret essence of mind except the Buddha Shakyamuni. For anyone seeking happiness, the first crucial thing to know is that mind is the root of all happiness and suffering. Tulku Pema Rigtsal