Pam Portland#TimeTravelAuthors #Day19 #TwoTruths #OneLie
My FMC meets Thomas Jefferson.
My #TimeTravel adventure takes place during the American Revolution.
A bottle of water changes the future.
Dennis A#TibetanBuddhism #TwoTruths #LamaChimeRinpoche
Two Levels of Truth, by Lama Chime Rinpoche – Buddhism now
"It is said that for the absolute, one has wisdom, and for the relative, one has compassion. After his enlightenment Buddha did not need to teach people in order for them to become essentially wiser; he did so in order to try to help people, to provide them with a means by which some of…"
https://buddhismnow.com/2015/06/17/two-levels-of-truth-by-lama-chime-rinpoche/
GayatriIt is possible to both, love a person and hate what they do. To care for, and put in boundaries. To send compassion, and distance oneself from. To stay within and seek escape from. You are not obliged to lead an either/or life.
#equanimity #uppekha #equipoise #balance #mindfulness #TwoTruths #Buddhism #Vajrayana #boundaries #MentalHealth
do not collect the evidence by which to willingly think the worst of yourself.
it is a statistical selection. you can as easily do the opposite.
neither is true in their entirety, we are composites. not entirely terrible, not entirely angelic.
to see oneself realistically is the basis of wisdom of practice.
One of the most essential, and annoying, parts of #awareness, is seeing that those we have quarrel with, are loved, whole, evolving individuals in their own right. That how we feel about them does not define them, just as how they think of us does not define us. These are parts of a whole we have to retrain ourselves to see. This offers us some release from mutual disapproval. Individuals also have #TwoTruths
My #poem #adhominem appeared in the Converse #anthology, 2022.
