Thursday, March 30, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Managing Your Corner of the Universe

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Zen practice, however, teaches you to completely be yourself—if you don’t, who will? Someone’s got to hold down your corner of the univer...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Via ThinkProgress: Trump revokes executive order, weakens protections for LGBT workers

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LET ME BE CLEAR: if you voted for Donald Trump, you voted to attack me and people like me.  You voted to roll back our civil and human r...

Via Towleroad: Trump Administration Erases LGBT People from Key 2020 Census Survey

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An announcement of Subjects Planned for the 2020 Census and American Community Survey put out by the Census Bureau which included Sexua...

Via Ram Dass

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God and I have become like two giant fat people living in a tiny boat. We keep bumping into each other and laughing. - Shams-ud-din M...

Via Daily Dharma / Nature's Perspective

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Animals are people, too. As are plants. And water. And soil. This is the fundamental insight at the heart of all eco-spiritual work. But to...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Understanding Across Difference

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Understanding across difference, whatever the difference, lies at the center of spiritual life and aspiration. —Henry Shukman, " The...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Freedom to Marry

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Via Daily Dharma / Free Time vs. Freedom

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Free time is of a different order than free-dom. Freedom, at least in the dharmic sense, depends on the quality of attention that we bring ...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - March 26, 2017

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You learn not to act out your emotions, but just to appreciate and acknowledge them. That’s part of the way you can use them spirituall...

Via Daily Dharma / The Importance of You

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Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love—how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and l...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Home(less) [Short Film] - Full Movie

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FiveFilms4freedom 2017: In conversation with Jonny Ruff

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Via Tiny Buddha / FB:

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Via Daily Dharma / Facing Pain

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You don’t have to be afraid of pain. If it’s going to be there, you can let it be there—but don’t let the mind be in pain with it. —Upa...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Via Daily Dharam / The Value of Inexperience

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Unlike a subject like, say, carpentry, where we learn from the experience of those who have gone before us, meditation is defined by spon...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Via FB: Dorothy Day

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"No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. ~~ Dorothy Day (Catholic social activist)

Via Daily Dharma / Joining in a Common Effort:

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We can be true to our own basic insight of what we see as true, but we can embrace other people, knowing that they also may have their tr...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - March 22, 2017

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  It’s a very delicate task to interpret things like ego and fear because we tend to interpret from where we’re sitting, and we’ve de...

Via Daily Dharma / The Joy of Problems

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People get stuck for decades with the same problems over and over. Focusing expands you. Then you live in more ways and have new problems...