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 15, 2022
Via SFLGBT Sangha // 20th Anniversary Daylong Celebration
20th Anniversary Daylong Celebration
This is a reminder that the SFLGBT Sangha is celebrating our 20th Anniversary of Buddhist practice in Queer community on Saturday, June 18th from 10am-5pm at the SF Buddhist Center at 37 Bartlett Street in San Francisco or virtually via Zoom. We’d love to see you!
- Please register here by Wednesday, June 15th at 11:59pm if you plan to join in-person so we can provide lunch.
- If you would like to attend virtually, please find the Zoom meeting info below.
COVID Considerations: Evidence of vaccinations will be required for in-person attendees. We will be doing our best to social distance. Wearing a KN95 or N95 mask over mouth and nose will be mandatory except during lunch. (We will provide masks if you do not have one.) Please do a rapid-test prior to arriving.
Zoom meeting information:
https://zoom.us/j/844085275
Meeting ID: 844 085 275
Password: 948743
One tap mobile:
+16699009128, (San Francisco)
+ 844085275# US
Feel free to share the meeting ID, password, and link with anyone you know who may be interested in joining the daylong.
We hope you can join us!
Via Daily Dharma: Let the Mind Settle
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mind is analogous to a cup of muddy water. The longer you keep a cup of
muddy water still, the more the mud settles down and the water will be
seen clearly. Similarly, if you keep quiet without moving your body,
your mind settles down and begins to experience the bliss of meditation.
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “Sitting Still”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from False Speech
Refraining from False Speech
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One week from today: Refraining from Malicious Speech
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 15, 2022 💌
Your anger and your inspiration are all inside you. They are just being who they are. Your reaction is your reaction. It is showing you your attachments and aversions.
- Ram Dass -
Via White Crane Institute // The Supreme Court ruled that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment,
The Supreme Court ruled that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, a resounding victory for LGBT rights from a conservative court. The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.
The cases were the court’s first on LGBT rights since Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement and replacement by Kavanaugh. Kennedy was a voice for gay rights and the author of the landmark ruling in 2015 that made same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States. Kavanaugh generally is regarded as more conservative.
The Trump administration had changed course from the Obama administration, which supported LGBT workers in their discrimination claims under Title VII. During the Obama years, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had changed its longstanding interpretation of civil rights law to include discrimination against LGBT people. The law prohibits discrimination because of sex, but had no specific protection for sexual orientation or gender identity.
In recent years, some lower courts have held that discrimination against LGBT people is a subset of sex discrimination, and thus prohibited by the federal law. Efforts by Congress to change the law had failed.
The Supreme Court cases involved two gay men and a transgender woman who sued for employment discrimination after they lost their jobs.
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