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.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Via Good News Network
A 64 year-old man in Istanbul decided to brighten the neighborhood
by painting rainbow colors on some wide, gray, crumbling stairs. When
municipal officials sent workers after nightfall to hurriedly repaint
the steps gray, a quiet revolution
started on Twitter. Not only did volunteers come out to repaint those
stairs that Huseyin Cetinel had spent hundreds of dollars on, they
painted other stairs and walkways in cities around Turkey, posting
photos on social media. A Pandora's Box of color had unwittingly been
opened.
VIDEO at Good News Network: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/civics/brightly-painted-stairway-in-turkey-starts-color-revolution-against-drab-gray.html
Photo credit: Gürol Demirutku
VIDEO at Good News Network: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/civics/brightly-painted-stairway-in-turkey-starts-color-revolution-against-drab-gray.html
Photo credit: Gürol Demirutku
Via Daily Dharma
Why Meditate on Skeletons? | June 17, 2014
In urging his followers to meditate on
skeletons and bloody remains, the Buddha was advocating consciousness,
not disdain for the body. When we are aware of all the intricate
processes and parts that make up our bodies, we are less likely to
identify the overall image as 'me.' Disdain for our bodies is, in fact,
born not of detachment but of identification.
—Hannah Tennant-Moore, "Not Our Bodies, Not Ourselves"
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