[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Quotes and Readings

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your presence this evening. 

There was a request for the quote I shared from James Baldwin, as well as some of the titles of books by Sayadaw U Tejaniya and Thich Nhat Hanh. Enjoy.

Books:

You can find many of U Tejaniya's books for free here. I've found Dhamma Everywhere and Don't look down on the Defilements to be particularly helpful. 

Thich Nhat Hanh has also published a tremendous amount, and you really can't go wrong. Two that I've read that came to mind for me this evening are Anger and Being Peace.

Here's the quote:

"Hatred, which would destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law…It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is a common place. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never in one's own life, accept these injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength. This fight begins, however, in the heart and it now has been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair."

 

James Baldwin (from Notes of a Native Son)

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