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.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Via GBF \\ "Awakened Fearlessness" with Dale Borglum
How can our relationship with fear deepen our practice?
In this rich talk, Dale Borglum explains
that in fear, we are separated from our feeling of unity. Yet, all true
contemplative traditions teach that the end of the spiritual path
brings us to the realization that all is one.
He speaks of the two main spiritual paths: Devotion and Self-Inquiry.
Both
share the practice of meditation to realize oneness and the fact that
we are not the contents of our thoughts or experiences.
To approach that sense of oneness, Dale shares several methods for dealing with fear, including:
- BECOME GROUNDED - inhabit the part of our body that is supported by the ground beneath us, even as we experience life events. The goal is to pay attention FROM being grounded, rather than paying attention TO being grounded.
- THE TANTRIC 3-STEP
- Be mindful of the feeling: feel the fear rather than just think about it.
- Feel compassion for the part of yourself that has become lost in fear;
- Tantra practice, experiencing being at one with an enlightened being.
- DEEPEN YOUR FAITH - believing that we are whole already and can let go of the concept that everything needs to be fixed.
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Malicious Speech
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Via White Crane Institute // HARVEY MILK DAY in California
HARVEY MILK DAY in California. Gay rights pioneer, martyr and San Francisco city supervisor HARVEY MILK was born on this date. Milk was an American politician and Gay Rights activist and the first openly Gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. He was often called, "the first openly Gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet," though this slights others who were elected before him in cities not so associated with Gay life.
What is not as well-remembered was his amazing ability to bring communities and neighborhoods together for progressive ends.
Milk served almost eleven months in office, during which he sponsored a bill banning discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. The Supervisors passed the bill by a vote of 11–1, and it was signed into law by Mayor George Moscone. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a disgruntled city supervisor.
The U.S. Postal Service officially revealed the Harvey Milk Forever Stamp in 2015. The stamp’s official first-day-of-issue ceremony took place at the White House. The public was invited to attend the May 28 Harvey Milk Forever Stamp special dedication ceremony in San Francisco. Customers may order the Harvey Milk stamp now through this link for delivery following the May 22 stamp issuance.
The stamp image is based on a circa 1977 black and white photograph of Milk in front of his Castro Street Camera store in San Francisco taken by Danny Nicoletta of Grants Pass, OR. Antonio Alcalá of Alexandria, VA, was art director for the stamp.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Compassion
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Via Inspiration from the International Plum Village Community
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Inspiration from the International Plum Village Community
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