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Via Trike Daily: A Big Gay History of Same-sex Marriage in the Sangha

Buddhist same-sex marriage was born in the USA. That’s a little known but significant fact to reflect on now, just after the Supreme Court has declared legal marriage equality throughout the country. Appropriately enough, it all started in San Francisco, and was conceived as an act of love, not activism.

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/big-gay-history-same-sex-marriage-sangha/?utm_source=Tricycle&utm_campaign=68b4bc82cc-Newsletter_19_6_2_Subs&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1641abe55e-68b4bc82cc-307231789

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - June 2, 2019 💌

If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature. 

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Our Neighbors’ Happiness Is Our Happiness

Pain and joy, love of life, and fear of death know no boundaries of us and them. We can all wake up to realize that our happiness depends on the happiness of our neighbors and vice versa, and our real safety is in togetherness, not intractable conflict.

—Stephen Fulder, “Do We Really ‘Have No Choice’?”