Vacuité,
. Atomes,
.. Molécules,
... Cellules,
.... Organes,
..... Corps,
...... Esprit,
Vacuité.
#agregats #nirvana #dhamma #bouddha #darma #dukka

I don't know what the #Buddhist stance is, specifically, on #IndependenceDay, but I'm pretty sure our Teachers wouldn't be into it.

I tried searching it on line, came up with #Dhamma talks about what constitutes real #Freedom. Which is a damn good point. And was reminded that clinging, e.g., to mythic images of our various national icons, is not free. Or as one meme I saw a couple of years back put it, "I'm not free but I have this cool [flag] t-shirt."

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Whoever sees the #Dhamma, sees the #Buddha
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/iti92

“We rise by lifting others.”
~ Robert Ingersoll
#mindfulness #kindness #compassion #composure #LovingKindness #Metta #dhamma #humanity #buddhism

"Buddha called it khaya-vayam, the decline and dissolution of all conditioned phenomena.

"When we are born we bring this inherent nature into the world with us, we can't avoid it. At birth we bring old age, sickness and death along with us. - #AjahnChah

https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Why_Are_We_Here_1.php #Dhamma #Dharma
@dhamma
@dharma

I said to him, "Your thinking is the thinking of an earthworm. An earthworm lives in the ground. It eats earth for its food. Eating and eating, it starts to worry that it will run out of dirt to eat. It is surrounded by dirt. The whole earth is covering its head, but it worries it will run out of dirt." - #AjahnChah
https://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Dhamma_Goes_Westward.php #Dhamma #Dharma #ScarcityMindset
@dhamma
@dharma

“Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating the insight of interbeing and compassion, and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I’m determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, or in my way of life.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
#compassion #love #ThichNhatHanh #vegan #HumanPrivilege #buddhism #mindfulness #kindness #Metta #dhamma

"To be good and lead a good life,
means to give to others more than one takes from them."

-- Leo Tolstoy
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#DhammaIsWhereYouFindIt #Dhamma #Dharma #Kindness #metta #Tolstoy

I just love this, every time i see it.

"Redneck's valuable life lesson" with the two lighters
https://i.imgur.com/gQhin9W.gifv
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#DhammaIsWhereYouFindIt #Dhamma #Dharma #Buddhism #Kindness #Metta

Namaste. I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is love, of truth, of light, and of peace.
#namaste #love #truth #light #peace #mindfulness #compassion #composure #LovingKindness #kindness #buddhism #dhamma

May you be filled with goodwill,
May you be well,
May you be peaceful and at ease,
May you be happy and free from suffering.
#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Metta #RecoveryDharma
@recoverydharma
@dhamma
@dharma
@metta

May you have happiness
and be the causes of happiness;
May you be free from sorrow
and the causes of sorrow;
May you never be separated
from the sacred happiness
which is sorrowless;
And may you live in equanimity,
without too much attachment
and too much aversion,
And live believing in the equality
of all that lives.

#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Metta #RecoveryDharma
@recoverydharma
@dhamma
@dharma
@metta

"As of mid-April, 2023, I am on a traditional monastic pilgrimage to walk along the coastal areas of California.

"In keeping with my monastic rules, I will only accept food that is offered that day, not use money, and sleep wherever there is availibility.

"This monastic pilgrimage often called “tudong.” This is a Thai derived word for the Pāli word “dhutaṅga,” which means “austere practice.”
- @jagaro

https://dayam.org/ #Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Bhikkhu #Monk #Tudong #Dhutaṅga

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.

— Rainer Maria Rilke
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#DhammaIsWhereYouFindIt #Dhamma #Dharma #Buddhism #Rilke

“I have grown to love that place between stimulus and response where,
if you remember to breathe,
you can change.”
~ Julie Reynolds

#QuoteToot #Thoughts #ThoughtsToPonder
#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Metta #RecoveryDharma

"We can only have the highest happiness by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves."

-- George Eliot

#DhammaIsWhereYouFindIt #Dhamma #Dharma #Buddhism #GeorgeEliot #Happiness

“Love cannot be selective. The moment love is selective it is reduced to mere liking and disliking, approving and disapproving, the manifestation of our desire and fear. In Dhamma terms, love means acceptance without limitations or conditions, and it is only in this place that we will find true peace.”

~ Michael Kewley

#love #compassion #acceptance #peace #mindfulness #composure #kindness #LovingKindness #dhamma

"Try to bless your demons and let them go away.
Demons, anxiety, desire, things you never did,
let them go and think about things you did do.
Try to let go."

-- Frederick Buechner
_The Remarkable Ordinary_

#DhammaIsWhereYouFindIt #Buddhism #Dhamma #Dharma

To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

#Dhamma

"On the individual level, some of us now have an enforced opportunity to consider how much of our self-concept is bound up in what we do out there in the world, with the activities we engage in, with the acceptance other people offer us. ‘If not all that, who am I?’ becomes an almost inescapable question. The answer may not be immediately comfortable."

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/05/gabor-mate-coronavirus-essay
#COVID19 #COVID #LongCOVID #KeepThePHE #SeeYouSafer #PublicHealthEmergency
#Dharma #Dhamma