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Thursday, October 1, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: The Real Question
Via GBF -- "A Contemporary Eightfold Path for Navigating Hard Times" with Donald Rothberg
A new dharma talk is now available on the GBF website and podcast:
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Donald Rothberg helps us lean into dharma wisdom to navigate the difficult realities of our world without becoming numb, overwhelmed, or cynical.
We often focus our Buddhist practice solely on personal meditation, but Donald reminds us that true path-walking spans wisdom, meditation, and ethical care for the broader world. Looking back to early Buddhist history and figures like Emperor Ashoka, Donald shows us that spiritual practice has always held a vital social dimension alongside individual awakening. He offers a practical eight-part framework for modern times, guiding us to bring clarity, deep heart, and active care to today's complex landscape.
Donald outlines eight key principles to help us weave our spiritual practice into daily life and social action:
- Grounding in Vision: We stay connected to our core vision of wisdom, love, and awakening so we don't lose our direction during challenging times.
- Connecting Inner and Outer: We unite our personal meditation practice with outward care, integrating self-transformation with active service to others.
- Applying Wisdom to Society: We recognize how greed, hatred, and delusion operate not just within our own minds, but also as institutionalized forces in the wider world.
- Practicing with Difficult Emotions: Instead of turning numb to troubling news, we use mindfulness and group connection to process accumulated grief, anger, and fear.
- Maintaining Joy: We keep contact with wonder, music, and delight, remembering that joy is an inherent part of our being that sustains us through hardship.
- Grounding in Ethics: We practice non-harming in our personal relationships while taking active steps to address larger harms in our society.
- Grounding in Community: We cultivate meaningful, in-person connections to support one another and create a beloved community.
- Listening for Our Calling: We discover our own unique way to respond, focusing on what makes us come alive to meet the needs of the world.
Enjoy 900+ free recorded dharma talks at https://gaybuddhist.org/
Via White Crane Institute
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| This Day in Gay History | |||
 1989 - DENMARK: The world's first legal, modern same-sex civil union are sanctioned and called "registered partnership."  2008 - Construction of the Royal Airforce Base at Lakenheath was held up in 2008 when relics of this base’s ancient inhabitants were unearthed during a routine construction project. The base must work with British archaeology officials for every base construction because of the area’s dense concentration of buried artifacts. Before the Air Force set up shop at Lakenheath more than 60 years ago, it was home to the Anglo-Saxons — ancient peoples who inhabited the south and east of the country from the early fifth century through the Norman conquest of 1066. Toiling alongside a construction crew that rebuilt the traffic circle on the northside of the base in August, a team of British archaeologists dug up three Anglo-Saxon graves dating to between 450 and 650. They found two unusually large bodies dating from before the Norman Invasion of 1066 that appeared at first glance to be a husband and wife. The bodies were buried embracing each other, but genetic testing revealed both were men. It remains unknown if they were lovers, relatives, warrior companions, or just good friends…but I think we know. | ||
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