🕖⏳️🌺 ~ This weekend retreat starts later today at 7 pm. This is an excellent opportunity to gain deeper understanding of destructive emotions/patterns like anger, anxiety, guilt, deression/shame, and learn very different, effective skills in dealing with all of them. In person or online/Zoom. 🧵

🌹🙏💎 ~Thank you Rob Dowling and @jameslowturkce.bsky.social James Low, via Facebook

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🌹💎 ~ Please find a way to donate money, volunteer, contribute food if you can. 🌹🙏

🌹🙏💎 ~ "You should make sure that you do not make the mistake of taking an idea for the actual experience."

🌹💎 ~ I love myself too much ~ Tai Situ Rinpoche The thing that really surprised me when I first went to the West was to hear people saying, “I hate myself”, I could never understand that. But now I think I understand; when people say, “I hate myself” what they really mean is, “I love myself too 🧵

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🌹🙏💎 ~ Spiritual Bypassing ~ Thank you Erik Jensen and Michael Gregory ~ If you can't follow the windows, here is the link: www.facebook.com/share/17ehnY...

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🌹💎 ~ This weekend retreat could not be more timely in today's troubled times. There is still time to register. If you can't make it in person - like me - it starts online 7 PM, eastern, Friday.

🌹🙏💎 ~ Looking at Who We Are ~ Chögyam Trungpa People have difficulty beginning a spiritual practice because they put a lot of energy into looking for the best and easiest way to get into it. We might have to change our attitude and give up looking for the best or easiest way. 🧵

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💎🍂 ~ The crispness and impermanence of autumn, every moment.

💔 Looking for a way to help your neighbors losing SNAP benefits, Nov 1st? AARP Foundation will match donated funds up to $750,000 for older adults losing SNAP benefits. To donate: Rush your gift for older adults facing hunger | AARP Foundation. (If not here🧵https://share.google/ztO88lITOd8RUKJxN

🌹🙏💎~ Opening The Heart Retreat: Mindfulness and Transforming Destructive Emotions with Lama Michael Gregory, November 7–9. Struggling with anxiety, anger, feelings of being overwhelmed or emotional exhaustion in these challenging times? This retreat is for you. This is an invitation, an allowance 🧵

🌹🙏 Political, health and natural disasters. Life and death. So many opportunities to offer compassion, kindness, your precious time and and generosity. It changes your world if not the entire world. Please help and donate where you can ❤️😇

💔 Feeling Sad - via Carl Johnson, Facebook ~ Please consider helping or donate locally. "In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it saddens me to know that on November 1st, food benefits will be postponed for more than 42 million Americans... As the United States of America, 🧵

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🌹🙏💎 ~ The Four Faults of Natural Awareness

🌹🙏💎 ~ Our Time Is Bodhisattva Time We Need To Be Shaken 🙏 ~ Machig Labdron ~ Via Lama Michael Gregory (Ve. Chokyi Dhakpa), Facebook link: www.facebook.com/share/1F3qWA...

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🌹🙏💎 ~ "My Guru has shown me my true nature and the true nature of the world..."

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🌹🙏💎 ~ Knowing One Thing Liberates Everything The text of this post would be a lengthy thread. Please click on the link to read it 🙏 www.facebook.com/share/p/1CQF...

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🌹🙏💎 ~ All appearances are mind Mind is empty [of inherent existence] Emptiness is spontaneous presence Spontaneous presence is natural self liberation. ~ Four Mahamudra recognitions

🌹🙏💎 ~ The wisdom mind of all the buddhas ~ Padmasambhava Unstained by objective clinging, Unspoilt by the grasping mind, Sustaining the naked and empty awareness Is the wisdom mind of all the buddhas! -- Padmasambhava Just Dharma -https://share.google/adrPox44dEKXpMx5m [Image source, unkown]

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📢 PSA - First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

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🌹🙏📿🎶 ~ Wishing all a good night, rest. Ani Choying Drolma - Beautiful version of Om Mani Padme Hung. The Six Syllable Mantra of Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig, Tibetan) youtu.be/N4v_fh3-rkU?...

🌹🙏💎 ~ Peace within ~ Ajahn Chah Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering 🧵

🌹🙏💎 ~ Rest in natural great peace ~ Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves In the infinite ocean of samsara. Rest in natural great peace. Thank you @justdharma.org

💔📢 ~ Lost Dog, Brooklyn

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🌹🙏💎~ To Choose Your Guru ~

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🌹🙏 ~ Kindness, compassion, generosity, honoring-protecing life, fearlessness. Bodhisattva activity. Thank you. Om mani padme hung 📿

🌹🙏💎 Just worry about one thing ~ www.facebook.com/share/r/1Gdh...

🌹🙏💎🌈 ~ Rise to The Occasion ~ Michael Gregory (on FB)

🌹🙏💎 ~ The Intimate Relationship of Dreaming, Death, and Liberation: Crossing the Hypnogogic Plane in Open Awareness  Via Michael Gregory, FB ~ also Note 🧵 www.facebook.com/share/p/1AtW...