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| 1efeb12 | Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the mind's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do the waves come from? The ocean. In the same manner, thoughts and emotions are the radiance and expression of the very nature of the mind. They rise.. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| ce4f304 | Meditation is not something that you can "do"; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when the practice has been perfected. However," | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 18af6ca | What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone who has found and who uses continually the springs and sources of profound inspiration. As the modern English writer Lewis Thompson wrote: 'Christ, supreme poet, lived truth so passionately that every gesture of his, at once pure Act and perfect Symbol, embodies the transcendent.' To embody the transcendent is why we are he.. | embodiment transcendent true-spirituality | Sogyal Rinpoche | |
| 7237100 | En ausencia de los elementos de apoyo que nos resultan familiares, quedamos cara a cara tan solo con nosotros mismos: una persona a la que no conocemos, un extrano desconcertante con quien hemos vivido siempre, pero al que, en el fondo, nunca hemos querido tratar. ?Acaso no es ese el motivo de que tratemos de llenar cada instante de ruido y actividades, por aburridas y triviales que sean, y evitemos quedarnos a solas y en silencio con ese d.. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 7a2d0dd | Aprender a vivir es aprender a desprenderse. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 7a6cdb1 | We are | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| d60498d | Ce que vous etes est ce que vous avez ete >>, disait le Bouddha ; << ce que vous serez est ce que vous faites maintenant | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 8c3b13c | life is inherently sacred and must be lived with sacred intensity and purpose | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| f1c9d31 | You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 3eb9986 | discover and develop, naturally and spontaneously, a compassionate desire to serve all beings, as well as a direct knowledge of how best you can do so, with whatever skill or ability you have, in whatever circumstances you find yourself. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 905a140 | will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| 6c31f16 | Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. | Nonsense | ||
| 0b44142 | Of all footprints That of the elephant is supreme; Of all mindfulness meditations That on death is supreme.7 | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| f3a680f | Former petroleum industry analyst Jan Lundberg puts it this way, "The nation and most of the rest of the world is chasing a technofix instead of adjusting to ecological/economic reality." | Mark Shepard | ||
| 7d7f01d | Gandhi said, "I believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the cooperation of the people, willing or forced, and if people suddenly withdraw their cooperation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill." That was Gandhi's concept of power--the one he's accused of not having. It's a hard one to grasp, for those used to seeing power in the barrel of a gun. Their filters do not pass it. And so they call Gan.. | Mark Shepard | ||
| ed193b5 | Plants removing carbon from the air is, in fact, how the earth's vast coal deposits were formed. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 341c38e | Gandhi and followers break a law--politely. Public leader has them arrested, tried, put in prison. Gandhi and followers cheerfully accept it all. Members of the public are impressed by the protest, public sympathy is aroused for the protesters and their cause. Members of the public put pressure on public leader to negotiate with Gandhi. As cycles of civil disobedience recur, public pressure grows stronger. Finally, public leader gives in to.. | Mark Shepard | ||
| b309b82 | Gandhi ruled out direct coercion, such as trying to physically block someone. Hostile language was banned. Destroying property was forbidden. Not even secrecy was allowed. | Mark Shepard | ||
| d1b1b2a | Of course, noncooperation and civil disobedience overlapped. Noncooperation too was to be carried out in a "civil" manner. Here too, Gandhi's followers had to cheerfully face beating, imprisonment, confiscation of their property--and it was hoped that this willing suffering would cause a "change of heart." | Mark Shepard | ||
| 126c7ec | Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey. The tyrant may get people to obey by threatening to throw them in prison, or by holding guns to their heads. But the power still resides in the obedience, not in the prison or the guns. | Mark Shepard | ||
| ab856ba | Nonviolent action, on the other hand, requires more patience because the action is less thrilling. | Mark Shepard | ||
| e2ffd2a | Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 07c1c8c | Gandhi was not talking about defeating or overthrowing anyone. Satyagraha--Gandhi's nonviolent action--was not a way for one group to seize what it wanted from another. It was not a weapon of class struggle, or of any other kind of division. Satyagraha was instead an instrument of unity. It was a way to remove injustice and restore social harmony, to the benefit of both sides. | Mark Shepard | ||
| fab8560 | Let me give a general description of what seems really to have happened when Gandhi and his followers committed civil disobedience: Gandhi and followers break a law--politely. Public leader has them arrested, tried, put in prison. Gandhi and followers cheerfully accept it all. Members of the public are impressed by the protest, public sympathy is aroused for the protesters and their cause. Members of the public put pressure on public leader.. | Mark Shepard | ||
| fc0c983 | For us, the war in Ukraine is a rehearsal. Rehearsal for a possible bigger conflict in the future. | Alexei Fenenko | ||
| db588d6 | Everything can be summed up into an equation. | Alexei Maxim Russell | ||
| ff1dc50 | Each of us too sees the world through our own "filter"--a filter made up of our assumptions, our motivations, and the categories we use to sort out and organize our experience. This filter determines how we see the world. When we come across something that doesn't match our assumptions, motivations, and categories, our filter blocks it out. It's not that we choose to reject it. Consciously, we don't even perceive it. Or else we perceive it .. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 145e8eb | you look closely at so-called popular liberation movements, you'll find that they're seldom started by the peasants or workers they're supposed to benefit. These armed struggles may gradually build wider support--but in almost every case, they're launched by students or other intellectuals in the name of the people. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 60c6099 | People try nonviolence for a week, and when it 'doesn't work,' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries. | Mark Shepard | ||
| b9222e8 | Gandhi noted also that violent revolutions almost always end in repressive dictatorships. Once the rebel troops gain control, they naturally keep acting as they're used to--in other words, they start running the country like a military camp. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 6b80fec | Satyagraha--Gandhi's nonviolent action--was not a way for one group to seize what it wanted from another. It was not a weapon of class struggle, or of any other kind of division. Satyagraha was instead an instrument of unity. It was a way to remove injustice and restore social harmony, to the benefit of both sides. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 36959ac | Salvation will not come from the legislators. Salvation will not come from the military. If there is any salvation, it will come from the people. Jayaprakash Narayan | Mark Shepard | ||
| 7f69a24 | almanacs | Mark Shepard | ||
| 1115c14 | No te enfades conmigo melancolia, porque tome la pluma para alabarte y al hacerlo incline la cabeza | Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm | ||
| b639f65 | Gandhi called his overall method of nonviolent action Satyagraha. This translates roughly as "Truth-force." | Mark Shepard | ||
| e47370a | Fearlessness is indispensable for the growth of the other noble qualities. How can one seek Truth, or cherish Love, without fearlessness? | Mark Shepard | ||
| 56cc5e7 | Each of us too sees the world through our own "filter"--a filter made up of our assumptions, our motivations, and the categories we use to sort out and organize our experience. This filter determines how we see the world. When we come across something that doesn't match our assumptions, motivations, and categories, our filter blocks it out. It's not that we choose to reject it. Consciously, we don't even perceive it. Or else we perceive it .. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 23e9c4b | For example, say that a Third World country undergoes a spontaneous, country-wide, mass noncooperation campaign against its dictator, lasting weeks or even months. Tens of thousands march in the streets, newspapers and radio stations defy the censors, whole cities are shut down for days at a time as people go on strike. Noted citizens call for the dictator's resignation, no one follows his orders, he has completely lost control. Finally, fo.. | Mark Shepard | ||
| bd039ad | Glenn's record spoke for itself. He had downed four MiGs in combat, but, more importantly, he had brought back airplanes so badly shot up they were judged not to be flyable by other pilots. Not only had he brought them back and landed them safely, when he climbed from the cockpit the maintenance officers marked these planes as junk, to be cannibalized for parts only. | Alan Shepard | ||
| e324321 | Other negative side-effects of violence come into view once the struggle comes to an end. For instance, violence generally leaves the two sides as long-standing enemies. Maybe the most amazing thing about Gandhi's nonviolent revolution is, not that the British left, but that they left as friends, and that Britain and India became partners in the British Commonwealth. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 3736ea4 | Already legal and political moves are being made to drain the Great Lakes as a water supply for a thirsty western region. | Mark Shepard | ||
| a1a4322 | VINCE: I was gonna run last night. I was gonna run and keep right on running. Clear to the Iowa border. I drove all night with the windows open. The old man's two bucks flapping right on the seat beside me. It never stopped raining the whole time. Never stopped once. I could see myself in the windshield. My face. My eyes. I studied my face. Studied everything about it as though I was looking at another man. As though I could see his whole r.. | Sam Shepard | ||
| c2601ee | What is needed are ecosystems that are designed to produce our food, fuel, animal feed, medicine and fibers, and ecosystems that can do so without the use of fossil fuel technology, those that can tolerate extremes of weather and potentially changing climates, and that can thrive without supplemental irrigation from vulnerable and increasingly expensive public utilities. | Mark Shepard | ||
| 37cdad8 | Other negative side-effects of violence come into view once the struggle comes to an end. For instance, violence generally leaves the two sides as long-standing enemies. Maybe the most amazing thing about Gandhi's nonviolent revolution is, not that the British left, but that they left as friends, and that Britain and India became partners in the British Commonwealth. Gandhi noted also that violent revolutions almost always end in repressive.. | Mark Shepard |