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Projecting our inner image of God onto the world

Projecting our inner image of God onto the world is something many people do without realising it. What happens is that they read scripture, have mystical experiences of the Divine, listen to what their coreligionists say, and then come up with an image, in their minds, of who God is and what God wants. With that, they set about putting the world to rights, according to their idea of how things should be. They feel certain they know what God wants because it feels right inside of them, so they conclude that it can't be wrong, no matter what.

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RIGHT INTENTION Cultivating Equanimity Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis upon which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on equanimity, for when you develop meditation on equanimity, all aversion is abandoned. (MN 62)  The far enemies of equanimity are attachment and aversion. (Vm 9.101) When a person smelling an odor with the nose is not attached to pleasing odors and not repelled by unpleasing odors, they have established mindfulness and dwell with an unlimited mind. For a person whose mindfulness is developed and practiced, the nose does not struggle to reach pleasing odors, and unpleasing odors are not considered repulsive. (SN 35.274)

Reflection Buddhist teachings are not abstract but always point us to the front lines of lived experience. Cycling through each of the six senses, we come to exploring the quality of equanimity even in the smelling of odors. Equanimity is the midpoint between favoring and opposing, between wanting what feels good and not wanting what feels bad. It is not indifference but a more refined attitude of understanding and acknowledging. Daily Practice See if you can find and then inhabit that middle emotional ground in which you are acutely aware of a sensation—in this case a smell coming through the nose—but are not reacting to it, either for or against. All sensory experience is just what it is; we need not make it good or bad by our emotional response. Learning to do this with a sense like smell will help you apply equanimity to other, more complex situations as needed.  Tomorrow: Refraining from Frivolous Speech One week from today: Cultivating Lovingkindness Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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This Day in Gay History
July 29

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Tim Gunn

1953 -

TIM GUNN, born; An American fashion consultant and TV personality, Gunn was chair of fashion design at Parsons New School for Design from August 2000 to March 2007 and is well-known as on-air mentor to designers on the Bravo reality program Project Runway.

Gunn's popularity on Project Runway led to his spin-off show, Bravo's Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style, as well as his book A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style.

Gunn’s father was an FBI agent and worked for J. Edgar Hoover as his ghostwriter and general amanuensis. Gunn was visiting his father at his office one day. He tells this wonderful story:

“My sister and I used to take the FBI tour once a year. It was a big deal in D.C., and we never missed it. One year, 1961, when I was eight, I was on the tour and my father asked me if I’d like to meet Vivian Vance. According to Helen Gandy, Hoover’s secretary, Vance was visiting Hoover, and she said she’d be happy to meet us. I was a rabid I Love Lucy fan and was beside myself with excitement… My father smiled and took my sister and me into Hoover’s office, where I shook Vivian Vance’s hand and chatted with her. She was charming and I was thrilled.

Years later, I was reminiscing with my sister about the meeting, and suddenly I realized something. “Does it seem odd to you,” I asked her, “that when we met Vivian Vance in Hoover’s office, Hoover wasn’t there?” I’ve since looked at photos of both Hoover and Vivian Vance from that period of time, and the similarities are rather eerie… I’ve called some Vivian Vance experts, including Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg, who wrote Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy’s Other Couple; none of them knew of any meeting between Vance and Hoover. I was able to check with the scheduler for Mr. Hoover and there is no record of Vivian Vance ever visiting him in their files.”

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