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Monday, November 20, 2023

[GBF] New Talk: Who Does "I Am" Refer To? - Dorothy Hunt

The latest dharma talk has been added to the GBF podcast and website.

Who or what do we refer to when we say, "I am..."?

In this talk, Dorothy Hunt explores the difference between the 'home ground' of just being, before we add definitions of 'I am.'

Our pure being, or Buddha nature, is always becoming something, and often underlies the doing that we experience. However, as we focus more on doing, it draws us into a need for accomplishment and doing more, of clinging and aversion.

Dorothy goes on to define the ground of being as emptiness or "that which is empty of definition and empty of self."
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Listen using your favorite podcast/music app or on our website:

https://gaybuddhist.org/podcast/who-does-i-am-refer-to-dorothy-hunt/

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

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RIGHT VIEW
Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

And what is the way leading to the cessation of suffering? It is just this noble eightfold path: that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. (MN 9)

Reflection

Understanding that suffering has a cause and can be cured is one thing, but managing to bring about that cure is a formidable challenge: “Just stop craving, and your suffering will disappear! How hard can that be?” As it turns out, it can be very hard indeed. The way out of suffering, woven from the elements of the eightfold path, needs to be crafted anew by each culture, each generation, each person.

Daily Practice

The practice of walking the path leading to the cessation of suffering has always been a creative project. Since every moment of every person’s experience is new and unique, the blueprint of the eightfold path has to be interpreted flexibly. Find your own distinctive way of understanding these timeless universal principles and applying them to the many challenges of your life and its unique set of changing circumstances.

Tomorrow: Cultivating Equanimity
One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering

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Via Daily Dharma: Defamiliarization in Spiritual Life

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Defamiliarization in Spiritual Life

A sense of defamiliarization is a recurring feature of spiritual life, and it can come to us in many ways—in art, in travel, in practice. However it comes, it offers an opportunity for openness and intimacy, [even] both if one can allow themselves to fall into it.

Henry Shukman, “Far from Home”

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[GBF] Larry Robinson / Rumi's Caravan

Here is contact information for Larry Robinson, following mention in his talk yesterday about Rumi's Caravan, his organization devoted to celebrating poetry and its recitation.

Here is Larry Robinson's email:

lrobpoet@sonic.net

Rumi's Caravan web site:

https://rumiscaravan.com/

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Noteworthy

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TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE -- Since 1999 today was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice (transphobia). The event is held on November 20^th, founded by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, to honor Rita Hester, whose murder in 1998 kicked off the "Remembering Our Dead" web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Since then, the event has grown to encompass memorials in hundreds of cities around the world.

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