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Via MG: Washington State Marriage Poll

Encouraging. But don't forget the Bradley Effect.

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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 22, 2012

Just Sitting

Just sitting means just that. That 'just' endlessly goes against the grain of our need to fix, transform, and improve ourselves. The paradox of our practice is that the most effective way of transformation is to leave ourselves alone. The more we let everything be just what it is, the more we relax into an open, attentive awareness of one moment after another.

- Barry Magid, "Leave Yourself Alone"
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 21, 2012

Being Here and Now

When we meditate, we relate to that unsettling, ineffable commodity: the present. We train in letting go of thoughts and feelings as they arise, and settle back into the present: that gap between two concepts—past and future—that don’t actually exist. We’re simply being, here and now.

- Pamela Gayle White, "The Pursuit of Happiness"
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AIDS Quilt - 25 Years Later

JMG HomoQuotable - Dan Savage

"In this political climate, with 'conservative' now synonymous with political homophobia, a man who claims to be a 'true conservative' doesn't just default straight. He defaults bigoted. Conservative voters will assume he holds anti-gay political beliefs and they will expect him to vote anti-gay should he be elected to office. So Sheriff Babeu stood to benefit politically—and may have actively sought to benefit politically—from the assumption that he was 1. straight and 2. anti-gay." - Dan Savage.

Labels: Arizona, Dan Savage, homocons, HomoQuotable

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JMG Church Sign Of The Day:

Source.

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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 20, 2012

Creating Space

As we meditate, we simply sit straight and watch the breath. So what does that do? It creates space. In fact, the technique itself is just a trick. The main point is to recognize all these thoughts and distractions that are constantly bombarding us. We still get angry, but we know that we are angry. When we are angry and know it, the anger has a lot of humor. With that kind of anger, we have more control.

- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, "Do Nothing"
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Via JMG: Anti-Gay Candidates: UNITE

 

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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 18, 2012

Fear is not the Enemy

There are many ways to meditate on fear. One is to wait until it appears adventitiously. Another is to invite it in—when we send out invitations we can be a little better prepared for who shows up at the party. Perhaps for both methods of approach the first thing to bear in mind is that fear is not the enemy—it is nature’s protector; it only becomes troublesome when it oversteps its bounds. In order to deal with fear we must take a fundamentally noncontentious attitude toward it, so it’s not held as a problem, but as a visitor. Once we take this attitude, we can begin to work with fear.

- Amaro Bhikkhu, "Inviting Fear"
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