Via JMG: Emmy Nomination For Dan Savage

I didn't even think to check the children's programming category. Congrats to Dan and the It Gets Better team!

Labels: Dan Savage, Emmy Awards, LGBT youth

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Tricycle Daily Dharma July 20, 2012

Holding Views Gently

Truth is best served by recognizing a viewpoint as only a viewpoint, and refraining from taking that extra step of regarding it as true to the exclusion of all other views. In other words, all views—even correct views—are best held gently, rather than grasped firmly.

- Andrew Olendzki, "Blinded by Views"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma July 19, 2012

Finding an Authentic Teacher

Just as it is only the real Self that can see the real world behind the appearances, so it may be that it is only the real seeker who can recognize a genuine man or woman of wisdom.

- Jacob Needleman, "Bread and Stone"

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'Sean' posted LGBT project wiki profile on the Baha'i Faith:

Sean says: LGBT project wiki profile on the Baha'i Faith is a bit biased just like the wikipedia page on homosexuality and the Baha'i Faith. What concerns me is that the sources on both sites are dated, and highly sanitized for "public consumption". At the very least the LGBT project wiki profile needs a more balanced approach on homosexuality in the Baha'i Faith. I added a few website links (this site included). Hopefully we can all brainstorm on how we can edit the content. What can we include? , what sources?

http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith#External_links (http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith#External_links)

<http://www.gaybahai.net/discussion/post/1893703>

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Tricycle Daily Dharma July 18, 2012

Against the Stream

The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected—precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.

- Stephen Batchelor, "Foundations of Mindfulness"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma July 17, 2012

Taking Control of Our Karma

When we ask, 'Why did this happen to me?' it is because of our limited view. If we throw a stone up in the air and forget about it, when it falls down on our heads, we shouldn’t complain, although we usually do. We have this notion that what happens to us is somehow independent of our own actions. We can ask, 'why did this happen?' But the more important question is, 'what we are going to do about it?'

- Matthieu Ricard, "Karma Crossroads"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma July 16, 2012

Clear Compassion

One of the things that most nourishes true compassion is clarity—when we know what we are thinking and know what we are feeling. This clarity differentiates compassion from shallow martyrdom, when we are only thinking of others and we are never caring about ourselves.

- Sharon Salzberg, "A Quiver of the Heart"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma July 15, 2012

Enlivening the Ordinary

Through art, a painter can make the ordinary come alive. As Zen students, we try to bring this kind of relevance into each moment of our lives, into this one moment that contains all moments. In this way, we allow the ordinary to enliven us. Sometimes this is successful, sometimes not, but the work itself goes on. Persistence is one of the major virtues in both the artist and the unenlightened.

- Gary Thorp, "The Dust Beyond the Cushion"

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