Patti Smith- Dream of Life (Song)

From Patti Smith for the Dalai Lama on his 80th birthday. "...a light to last your whole life through."

Distraction and Buddhism: "Entertainment Mind."

      "Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche called our continued inner distractedness 'subconscious gossip,'  a kind of ongoing drone of thought fragments and opinions. As a corollary he talked about what he called 'entertainment mind.' This entertainment mind needs to be fed constantly. If there are no immediate distractions, it will manufacture new distractions on the spot."

               "Our hope is that if we keep all this distractedness going, we will not have
           to look at who we are, we will not have to feel, we will not have to see what
           we see."

                     -- Judy Lief, The Dharma of Distraction, Shambhala Sun, May 2014

 Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

   Consequences of being "driven to distraction." "Wrecked 1958 Cadillac Sixty Special." 2012 enhanced digital photograph by Peter Gumaer Ogden.

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Distraction and Buddhism

THE QUOTES BELOW ARE FROM THE MAY 2014

"The real problem with Distraction: It keeps you from enlightenment"

ISSUE OF SHAMBHALA SUN MAGAZINE.

"In meditation we train in letting thoughts go."

---Sakyong Mipham

The imagine below is included solely for purposes of illustrating 

Sakyong Mipham's likeness for those who are unfamiliar with it.

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The quotes below are from George Saunders in  the "George Saunders on Kindness," an interview article between George and Melvin McLeod which appeared in the above noted issue of Shambhala Sun Magazine.

"When I've come close and had the presence of mind to err on the side of negotiation and humanizing

the situation, it's always gone better than when I've tried to steer toward confrontation."

"The time to make up your mind about other people is never."

"The thing that I've noticed is that if you go out into the world ready for confrontation, then confrontations find you.

 

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