Sunday, May 22, 2016

Happy Harvey Milk Day!


Via Ram Dass

May 22, 2016

There is not an experience that goes down in your life that doesn’t have the potential to help liberate you. It is so perfectly designed and there is not irrelevancy in the system. When you finally want to get free, everything, every single thing in your life is grist for the mill.

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day 22/05/2016

“Tenho dito que, na universidade dos relacionamentos, existe uma prova final que possibilita você concluir o curso. Não passando nessa prova, você não recebe o diploma. E a prova é: deixar o outro livre, inclusive para não te amar, se ele não puder ou não quiser. Deixar o outro livre significa manter o coração aberto para ele. Você continua junto, amando, mesmo que fisicamente não seja possível estar junto porque o outro não quer. Você não cai na armadilha de se ofender e se vingar. E você se vinga fechando o coração, retirando o amor, esfriando, se tornando indiferente.” 

“He dicho que, en la universidad de las relaciones, existe una prueba final que posibilita concluir el curso. No pasando esa prueba, no recibes el diploma. Y la prueba es: dejar al otro libre, inclusive para no amarte, si él no puede o no quiere. Dejar al otro libre significa mantener el corazón abierto para él. Siguescerca, amando, aunque físicamente no sea posible estar cerca porque el otro no quiere. No caes en la trampa de ofenderte o vengarte. Y te vengas cerrando el corazón, retirando el amor, enfriando, tornándote indiferente.”

“In the University of Relationships, there is a final exam we must take that enables us to graduate. If we don’t pass it, we won’t receive our diploma. Our final test is whether or not we are able to let the other be free, including not to love us. The other may not love us or feel incapable of loving us, and letting them be free means keeping our hearts open to them. We continue loving them even if it is not physically possible to be together because the other doesn’t want to be. We don’t fall into the trap of getting offended or acting out of revenge. This act of revenge involves closing our hearts, retracting our love, or becoming cold and indifferent to the other.”

Via Daily Dharma / May 22, 2016: The Moment Is Now

Now is the time to free ourselves from samsara. Unless we do it in this lifetime, it is not going to happen all by itself. We have to take care of ourselves.

—Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, "Taking Your Future Into Your Own Hands"