Via JMG: Super Gay Bet: Blade Vs B.A.R.

From Washington Blade reporter Phil Reese:

Editors and publishers of the Washington Blade and the Bay Area Reporter, an LGBT newspaper in San Francisco, announced this week the terms of a bet for their respective teams playing in Sunday’s Super Bowl championship in New Orleans. If the Ravens win, BAR will send the Blade staff a lunch of dungeness crabs and a $1,000 donation to the local LGBT charity of the Blade’s choosing. If the 49ers win, the Blade will send BAR’s staff a lunch of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs and a $1,000 donation to a San Francisco LGBT charity of BAR’s choosing. “When Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, the Patriots won the Super Bowl. When New York legalized marriage in 2011, the Giants won the Super Bowl. In 2012, Maryland passed marriage equality, so it’s our turn,” said Blade editor Kevin Naff, who lives in Baltimore. “Go Ravens!”

I suppose it should be pointed out that DC legalized same-sex marriage in 2009 and that the Redskins finished last in their division that year, having won only four games all season. Yes, I had look that up. Go sportsball! Go local/regional team! I like the ones in the aubergine blouses!

Labels: Bay Area Reporter, Super Bowl, Washington Blade

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Via Nalanda LGBT Buddhist Cultural and Resource Center / FB:

‎"Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others."    - His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Via 2012 Healing the Planet 2012 / FB:

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

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Via Buddhism on Beliefnet:

	Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	Regard him as one who points out treasure, the wise one who seeing your faults rebukes you. Stay with this sort of sage. For the one who stays with a sage of this sort, things get better, not worse. - Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. More Buddhism Quotes >>

Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:

Tricycle Daily Dharma January 30, 2013

Unraveling Desire

The truth is that we like our preferences and prejudices, we like defining ourselves in terms of what we like and don’t like. It is precisely desire’s entanglement with the sense of self that makes this all so difficult to unravel. Fortunately, there is a relatively easy and accessible way to counter the powerful forces of desire: the cultivation of equanimity. Every moment of mindfulness is also a moment of equanimity.

- Andrew Olendzki, "The Buddha's Smile"

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How Does Captain America Feel About Gay Marriage?

Chris Evans is Captain America. In real life, his brother is gay. He's not ashamed of his brother. But he is ashamed of America. When the guy who literally wears the American flag on his sleeve is ashamed of his own country, it's time for things to change.

 

Share this if you think he's right about where we'll be in 10 years. 

Via Buddhism on Beliefnet:

	Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	The mind is like the wick of a lamp illumined only through its own radiance. - Milarepa, "Drinking the Mountain Stream" More Buddhism Quotes >>

Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:

Tricycle Daily Dharma January 29, 2013

Understanding and Respect

Learning about other faiths helps us to understand, and to live side by side with, differing views and belief systems. To remain in one tradition without absorbing the benefits of the others seems disrespectful to the gifts that the Buddha passed down to us. Only through mutual understanding and respect can we successfully implement what the Buddha taught.

- Scott Hunt, “Scott Hunt’s Seaworthy Dream In Two Parts”

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Via JMG: HRC Launches New Coalition: Businesses For The Repeal Of DOMA

The Human Rights Campaign today announced a new coalition of corporations that is endorsing the Respect For Marriage Act, which would legislatively repeal DOMA.

The Business Coalition for DOMA Repeal is a group of leading U.S. employers that support legislative efforts to repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act through the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act. These Coalition members recognize that DOMA is bad for business and have pledged their support for RMA, which restores the rights of all lawfully married couples—including same-sex couples – to receive the benefits of marriage under federal law.

Among the first companies to join the coalition are A|X Armani Exchange, Aetna Inc., Biogen Idec, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Diageo North America, eBay, Electronic Arts, Kimpton Hotels, Marriott International, Massachusetts Mutual Life, Replacements, Ltd., Sun Life Financial, and Thomson Reuters.

Labels: activism, business, Congress, DOMA, HRC, marriage equality, Respect For Marriage Act

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Via O Bosque de Berkana / FB:

''O prazer é sempre derivado de algo fora de você, enquanto que a alegria surge de dentro. O passado não tem poder sobre o momento presente. Você não pode encontrar-se, indo para o passado. Você pode encontrar a si mesmo, vindo para o presente.

 

Perceba profundamente que o momento presente é tudo o que você tem. Faça do Agora o foco principal da sua vida.''

Eckhart Tolle
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