Via Tricycle // Buddhist teacher Larry Ward’s new book invites us to heal from the karma of racism

 

America’s Racial Karma

Photo by Jovelle Tamayo

The existence—and persistence—of racism can be baffling. Our society sees the suffering of historically disadvantaged people and treats them with scorn rather than compassion. Buddhism would explain that our current situation is the result of karma. But what does that mean? Contrary to popular depictions, the Buddhist notion of karma is not a tit-for-tat system of crime and punishment where people suffer for their past sins. Karma is a theory of action and consequence that describes how good deeds generate good results and more good deeds in a positive feedback loop, while bad deeds do the opposite. Through the lens of Buddhist karma, we may be able to understand how racism and the pain it causes are perpetuated.

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Via Daily Dharma: Create Space for All Things

When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

—Jack Kornfield, “Take the One Seat”

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#ProudBoys Santos Sérgio e Baco

 

 

 

Hoje, 7 de outubro, a Igreja celebra a festa dos Santos Sérgio e Baco.

 

Embora esse fato seja evitado pelos católicos conservadores, há teses e indícios históricos de que os dois eram gays e formavam um casal. Viveram no século IV e eram oficiais do Exército Romano. Sendo descobertos como cristãos homossexuais, foram martirizados juntos, 

no ano de 310, na Síria.

Que os Santos Sérgio e Baco, vítimas da homofobia, roguem por nós!

 

Today, October 7, the Church celebrates the feast of Saints Sérgio and Bacchus.

 
Although this fact is avoided by conservative Catholics, there are theses and historical indications that the two were gay and formed a couple. They lived in the 4th century and were officers of the Roman Army. Being discovered as homosexual Christians, they were martyred together,
in the year 310, in Syria.

 
May the Saints Sérgio and Bacchus, victims of homophobia, pray for us!