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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Today's Daily Dharma: Nature's Reward

Nature's Reward

If instead of generating anger or hatred or passion or fear or ego, I generate love, compassion, goodwill, then nature starts rewarding me. I feel so peaceful, so much harmony within me. It is such that when I defile my mind I get punishment then and there, and when I purify my mind I get a reward then and there.

—S.N. Goenka, "Superscience"

THE SEVEN LINE PRAYER (AND WEB SITE LAUNCH)

The Prayer/祈请文

“ The Seven Line Prayer is not just a simple supplication. It has everything in it, the path, the view, meditation, action, everything…” by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

“《七句祈请文》不只是一个简单的祈请，其中包含了道、见、修、行等等的一切......”

--宗萨钦哲仁波切　　

Tibetan / 藏文

༄༅། །གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཚིག་བདུན་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགས་སོ། །

ཧཱུྂ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔

པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔

ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔

པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔

འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔

ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱི༔

བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔

གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྂ༔

Phonetic Tibetan Spelling /藏语拼音

hung orgyen yul gyi nubjang tsam / 邬金由吉努江参

pema gesar dongpo la / 贝玛给萨东波拉

yatsen chok gi ngödrub nyé / 雅参秋给俄珠涅

pema jungné shyé su drak /贝玛炯内些苏扎

khor du khandro mangpö kor / 阔都康卓忙波阔

khyé kyi jesu dak drub kyi / 切记借苏达助吉

jingyi lab chir shek su sol / 钦吉拉起谢苏所

guru pema siddhi hung / 咕噜贝玛悉地吽

Sanskrit / 梵文

हूं ! ओडियाने वायव्ये पद्मकेसरकांडे

सिद्धिर्लब्धात्यद्भुता ख्यात पद्मसम्भवः

बहुडाकिनीभिरावृत तवैवानुसारामि

आयाह्यधिष्ठानार्थम् गुरु पद्मसिद्धि हूं!

Hum! Odiyaane Vaayavye,

Padma Kesar kaande,

Siddhir labdhat yadbhutah,

Khyaata Padmasambhava,

Bahudaakini bhiraavrita,

Tavaiva anusaraami,

Aaya Adhishtha Naartham,

Guru Padma Siddhi Hum!

English /英文

Hūṃ，On the northwest border of the land of Uḍḍiyāṇa,

On the pistil of a lotus flower and stem,

You attained supreme wondrous siddhi,

Renowned as Padmakara,

Surrounded by a retinue of many ḍākinīs.

Following you, I reach accomplishment;

Please come and grant your blessings!

Guru Padma Siddhi Hūṃ

Chinese / 中文

吽，邬金刹土西北隅，

莲花花茎莲胚上；

稀有殊胜成就者，

世称名号莲花生；

空行眷属众围绕，

我随汝尊而修持；

祈请降临赐加持，

咕噜贝玛悉地吽。

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day 06/11/2015

“Você está onde se coloca. Se algo de ruim aconteceu na sua vida foi você que abriu a porta para isso. Sim, é possível que você tenha encontrado alguém que foi canal de uma extrema estupidez. É possível que alguém tenha sido realmente maldoso com você. Mas por alguma razão você precisou desse encontro que te machucou tanto. Existem pessoas que realmente não podem ser amigas, mas o problema não é esse, é você ficar encantado com isso, preso num ciclo vicioso que sabota a sua felicidade.”

“Estás donde te colocas. Si algo malo sucedió en tu vida fuiste tú quien abrió la puerta para esto. Sí, es posible que hayas encontrado a alguien que fue canal de una estupidez extrema. Es posible que alguien haya sido realmente malo contigo. Pero por alguna razón necesitaste de este encuentro que te lastimó tanto. Existen personas que realmente no pueden ser amigas, pero el problema no es este, es que te quedes encantado con esto, atrapado en un ciclo vicioso que sabotea tu felicidad.”

“We are exactly where weplace ourselves. If something horrible happens in our lives, believe it or not, at some level we were responsible for opening the door to this experience. It is possible that we may haveencountered someone who was a channel for extreme senselessness, or someone who really wishedus harm. But for some reason, we may have actually been unconsciously seeking out thisexperience that caused us so much pain. There are some people who just can’t be friends with each other, but this is not the problem. The issue lies in becomingfixated on the negative experience or situation,getting stuck in a vicious cycle that sabotages our happiness.”

Today's Daily Dharma: Lighten Your Load

Lighten Your Load

Relinquishing is the ground for practicing 'beginner’s mind.' It helps us see things anew, as they really are; to be willing to listen to the thoughts and ideas of others with an open mind. So the relinquishing of thoughts and ideas about which we have been adamant can give us a sense of freedom, joy, and spaciousness.

—Allan Lokos, "Lighten Your Load"

HERO via Kate Clinton

Where Is Gay Marriage Legal? Statista's Map Shows The Countries That Allow Same-Sex Marriage — And Those That Don't

Now that same-sex marriage is legal in the United States, it's tempting to shut the book on LGBT rights and say they've been achieved. Despite recent progress, though, the fight is far from over, and nothing illustrates this better than this recent map showing where gay marriage is legal around the world created by Statista in conjuction with The Independent's i100 blog. Of course, marriage equality is hardly the be-all and end-all of LGBT rights; in fact, some in the community feel that its publicity eclipses equally pressing matters, such as violence against trans individuals and bisexual visibility. That being said, the topic is undoubtedly indicative of larger attitudes toward LGBT rights in a country — after all, discussing marriage equality at all requires a certain amount of acceptance of same-sex couples in the first place.

Using data from the Pew Research Center regarding marriage laws around the world, Statista put together a map showing which countries allow same-sex couples to marry — and as an LGBT person myself, the infographic elicits a combination of pride and sadness. It's no surprise to see that countries like the Canada and the UK, where the LGBT community is at an all-time height of visibility and acceptance, have passed same-sex marriage laws.

However, the map is also an illustration that even countries you don't immediately associate with LGBT equality have made progress: South Africa, parts of Mexico, and Uruguay all allow marriage equality.

On the other hand, the reverse is also true. Most notably, Australia is a gigantic blank spot — despite years of activism, same-sex marriage is still illegal in the Land Down Under. What the hell, Australia?

http://www.bustle.com/articles/121532-where-is-gay-marriage-legal-statistas-map-shows-the-countries-that-allow-same-sex-marriage-and