Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Via White Crane Institute // HARVEY MILK DAY in California


The Harvey Milk Forever stamp
1930 -

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

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Compassion

 

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RIGHT INTENTION
Cultivating Compassion
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 compassion, for when you develop meditation on compassion, any cruelty will be abandoned. (MN 62)

Compassion fails when it produces sorrow. (Vm 9.94)
Reflection
The power of compassion is that it can rise above tragedy, and its value is that it can lift us beyond feeling sorrow. Encountering the many forms of suffering in the world rather than looking away will inevitably bring mental pain in the form of sorrow. But compassion is an emotional triumph insofar as it brings out our best capacity for caring about the well-being of others. Compassion represents victory over sadness.
Daily Practice
There is plenty of opportunity these days to exercise our capacity for compassion: so many people dying, so many lives disrupted, so much tragedy on an epic scale. Open yourself to all this but with the strength of heart to feel compassion rather than sorrow. Compassion is a “trembling of the heart in the presence of suffering,” but the heart is trembling with loving care for the suffering one rather than with fear or dread.
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One week from today: Cultivating Appreciative Joy

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Taking happiness and suffering as the path requires the noblest aspiration, a kind and courageous heart, and skillfully developed endurance.

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"Our life will be filled with happiness if we can help others around us. But if we spend our whole life building up our name and our fortune, we cannot find happiness. We might have a lot of money, a big house, and a luxurious car, but that’s not real happiness. We can only taste real happiness when we can help others."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is This Moment

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Monday, May 20, 2024

Via White Crane Institute \\Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

 

Today's Gay Wisdom
2018 -

TODAY’S GAYWISDOM

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)
William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering

 


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Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering
What is the origin of suffering? It is craving, which brings renewal of being, is accompanied by delight and lust, and delights in this and that; that is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving for being, and craving for nonbeing. (MN 9)

When one does not know and see material form as it actually is, then one is attached to material form. When one is attached, one becomes infatuated, and one’s craving increases. One’s bodily and mental troubles increase, and one experiences bodily and mental suffering. (MN 149)
Reflection
As we proceed with a systematic investigation of the second noble truth—how craving gives rise to suffering—we begin looking at each of the five aggregates in turn: material form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness. Material form includes everything constituted of matter, including the sense organs of the body and the substances in the environment giving rise to incoming data of sense experience. 

Daily Practice
Pay attention to the point at which the subjective experience of the body meets resistance. Notice the physical sensations of your feet on the floor, your butt on the chair, your skin against your clothing. This is how we encounter material form in lived experience. Experience each of the four great elements: feel earth as resistance, air as movement, water as wetness, fire as heat. Notice how craving arises from each.

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

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Bodhisattvas don’t need all to be right and peaceful in the world to offer our own peace of mind. However the world manifests itself, we have a job to do.

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