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Cecilie Kwiat’s Gifts « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. Cecilie Kwiat’s Gifts. My first meditation teacher, Cecilie Kwiat, passed away yesterday. A few of us gathered to share stories of her joy and compassion and share prayers. She was a living example of the exuberance and drive to awaken and help others awaken. Of the many teachings she gave, one line stands out as so so helpful. The line is: ‘He has given so fully of himself, there is no place that he is not.'”. February 16, 2014. Cecilie ...
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Sympathetic Joy « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. Sometimes when you’re watching a sporting event, or sitting in close with a group of musicians playing some good tunes, you feel this happiness, this joy at someone else’s accomplishments they are just so darn good at what they do and you feel uplifted to notice it, to experience it–to feeeel it. Sometimes you feet it more, sometimes less: but there is this wonderful feeling of second-hand joy. Why are we so moved? As one journalist wrote...
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Compassion « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. The Sanskrit word for compassion is. It comes from the root (Sk). To do or to make. It does not have the association with weeping and wailing and sadness that the English word compassion has. In its Sanskrit origins,. Compassion is about doing an action to alleviate suffering. Compassion is stronger than the other three. Let me prove this to you; I can do it with one word:. What happens to you? What do you do? The key word is. Compassion ...
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Friendliness « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. The biggest problem we Westerners have when we approach a Buddhist concept like. Loving-kindness , is that we basically only have three concepts of love : (1) intense romantic love; (2) family love; or, alternately, if we are being very spiritual, (3) noble saintly love for all our fellow men and women Jesus-type love, or Ghandi-type love, which of course we think is way out of reach for lowly mortals like us. Think ‘friendly and warm’.
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2014 February 16 « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. Cecilie Kwiat’s Gifts. My first meditation teacher, Cecilie Kwiat, passed away yesterday. A few of us gathered to share stories of her joy and compassion and share prayers. She was a living example of the exuberance and drive to awaken and help others awaken. Of the many teachings she gave, one line stands out as so so helpful. The line is: ‘He has given so fully of himself, there is no place that he is not.'”. February 16, 2014. Inuktitu...
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2014 June 10 « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. Amitabha, Community and Ecology: A Retreat with Tarchin Hearn in Morin Heights, Quebec (June 21-26). There is more about Tarchin here. All are welcome to attend this retreat; there are BnB’s and camping possibilities in Morin Heights. The teaching is always offered for free; there will be a dana bowl for the teacher. Please contact Jane Marenghi for details at janemarenghi [at] hotmail [dot] com. Is posted below. Sarva Mangalam. In Buddhi...
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New Year’s Retreat on The Four Immeasurable Loves (Brahmaviharas) « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. New Year’s Retreat on The Four Immeasurable Loves (Brahmaviharas). The Buddha’s favourite word for meditation was ‘cultivation’ (bhavana, in Pali); wouldn’t it be great to start the New Year cultivating sympathetic joy, and the other boundless types of love? RETREAT AT THE MORIN HEIGHTS DHARMA HOUSE January 2-5, 2014. Retreat starts Thursday Jan. 2nd 10am till lunch Sunday, Jan. 5th, 2014. Jane Marenghi (450) 226-6453. If you want to join...
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The Brahma Viharas « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. The Brahma Viharas: A road map of how to live. Reading between the lines, he said what she really wanted to know was which of these two paths would have the least suffering. And he said, I could tell her, but I’m not going to, because she’s misunderstood what Dharma is for. Dharma does not give you a life free of suffering. Dharma is how you. The first BV is Metta:. Of friendly attention is a powerful act of giving. 2 is Karuna, compassion.
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Equanimity « Derek's Dharma Blog
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Derek's Dharma Blog. A blog about meditation, Dharma and activism. You might call equanimity the grandparent’s perspective. The Sanskrit word for equanimity is. Means ‘to look at or look over, to perceive, to notice, to wait on patiently’. The prefix. So it is rather unfortunate that some Buddhists translate. The Buddhist dictionary equates. Which literally means ‘remaining here and there in the middle’ or ‘equanimity, equipoise, mental balance.’. I like to think of. This is the wisdom of the Elders.
