A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma June 28, 2012
Suffering's Lessons
It
is because of pain and suffering that we first want to practice. And
it’s because of pain and suffering that we attain enlightenment. Regard
suffering as a teacher, and an inspiration.
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- Mingyur Rinpoche, "The Easy Middle"
Via AmericaBlog Gay:
Team Obama loves the gay
New
video from the Obama campaign. Yes, it wasn't always easy getting
these accomplishments to occur, but they did occur, and won't with
Romney. The last several years we told the President that we'd better
see some significant promises kept, or else. And, in the end,
significant promises were kept - not all of them, but enough of them to
merit keeping our promise in return.
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