Monday, April 10, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Social Responsibility

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When I begin taking care of how I suffer—how I too am greedy, angry, or confused—then I develop my capacity to respond to those same ener...

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  In the early stages of sadhana (spiritual work), you take your dominant thing and you work with it. You keep doing it and doing it,...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Everything Is Useful

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  Whatever the circumstance, bodily movement or stillness, feeling well or distressed, with good concentration or scattered attention, ev...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Finding Stability in Impermanence

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Change is good, we’re told. A fresh breeze blown through life keeps us on our toes, fully alive until we die. —Joan Duncan Oliver, "...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Moments Make a Life

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Our entire lives are nothing but a chain of moments in which we perceive one sight, taste, smell, touch, sound, feeling, or thought after...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

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In the clarity of a quiet mind, there is room for all that is actually happening and whatever else might also be possible. As we...

Via Daily Dharma / Forgiveness Liberates

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I think the reason that remarkable stories of forgiveness take our breath away is that we instantly feel the liberation in the lifting of...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Do Less, Live More:

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It has been said, and with good reason, that dying people never wish they had spent more time in the office. Doing matters little to the ...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Via vice.com/Broadly: Trump Strips LGBT People of Workplace Protections, Then Erases Them from Census

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This week, President Trump quietly nullified an order that required companies receiving large federal contracts to show that they hav...

Via Ike's Man-Cave / FB:

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Via Daily Dharma / Finding a New Kind of Connection

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As a student of the dharma, I believe that what we call difference in the negative sense of the word is only a perceived lack of connection...
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 ...