Via Daily Dharma: Being Our Own Soulmate

 Even if someone loves us sincerely, if we don’t know how to be our own soulmate, we won’t be able to believe in the love that person is offering because we ourselves don’t know what love is. 

Sister Dang Nghiem, “How to Be Your Own Soulmate”

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Developing Unarisen Healthy States

 

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RIGHT EFFORT Developing Unarisen Healthy States Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will  become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders healthy states, one has abandoned unhealthy states to cultivate healthy states, and then one’s mind inclines to healthy states. (MN 19) Here a person rouses the will, makes an effort, stirs up energy, exerts the mind, and strives to develop the arising of unarisen healthy mental states. One develops the unarisen equanimity awakening factor. (MN 141)

Reflection If you just “go with the flow” of your own mind and let whatever happens happen, often you will drift in the direction of unhealthy or unskillful states. You may have noticed this from time to time. This is why effort is important and right effort is a friend rather than an adversary. When we consciously develop helpful qualities of mind, such as mindfulness and equanimity, we are better off in the long run. Daily Practice Equanimity is the last of the seven factors of awakening and completes the preceding series of mindfulness, investigation of states, energy, joy, tranquility, and concentration. Equanimity is the culmination of skillful states of mind because it neutralizes craving, occupying the midpoint between its two forms, greed and hatred. Equanimity is in the middle where one gazes upon what is happening without entanglement. Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and the Third Jhāna One week from today: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Via White Crane Institute /// Károly Mária Kertbeny

 

Noteworthy Károly Mária Kertbeny 1869 - Marks the first known published use of term “homosexuality” by Károly Mária Kertbeny, a German-Hungarian advocate, in a letter to Karl Ulrichs. The neologism “heterosexuality” came later. The word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid. The prefix homo is not from the Latin homo "man" but from the Greek homos, which means "the same," thus giving the word homosexual its definition of "same sex relationship." Homosexual is not as widely accepted because it emphasizes the word as just a sexuality but not as a cultural and social attitude which gay and lesbians have and it has the overtones of pathology derived from its original usage to define it in medical terminology. Gay generally refers to male homosexuality, but may be used in a broader sense to refer to all LGBT people. In the context of sexuality, Lesbian refers only to female homosexuality. The word Lesbian is derived from the name of the Greek island Lesbos, where the poet Sappho wrote about her emotional relationships with young women.

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