Friday, January 17, 2014
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Tricycle Daily Dharma January 17, 2014
Changing Views
For,
as the Buddhist view has consistently demonstrated, it is the
perspective of the sufferer that determines whether a given experience
perpetuates suffering or is a vehicle for awakening. To work something
through means to change one's view; if we try instead to change the
emotion, we may achieve some short-term success, but we remain bound by
forces of attachment and an aversion to the very feelings from which we
are struggling to be free.
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- Mark Epstein, “Shattering the Ridgepole”
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Via JMG: NIGERIA: Eleven Muslim Men On Trial, Face Stoning To Death For Homosexuality
An Islamic court in Nigeria's northern state of Bauchi has put on trial 11 Muslim men accused of being homosexuals in violation of their religion, a religious leader has told the BBC. A 12th person arrested - a Christian - would be tried under secular law, a BBC reporter says. Under Islamic law, a person can be sentenced to death by stoning if convicted of homosexuality. It is also illegal to have gay sex in Nigeria, according to its secular laws. Jibrin Danlami Hassan, the commissioner of Bauchi state's Sharia Commission, said the alleged homosexuals were arrested by residents of Bauchi city. They were handed to the Islamic police force, which interrogated them, he said. "They accept that they are doing that dirty game," Mr Hassan said. Ms Aken'Ova said some of those arrested had been beaten up and tortured, but Mr Hassan denied this. The BBC's Ishaq Khalid in Bauchi says the Sharia Commission confirmed to him that a Christian had been arrested with the 11 Muslims, and would be tried in a "conventional court".There have not yet been any confirmed "death by stoning" executions in Nigeria, although several such sentences have been handed down.
Labels: Africa, homosexuality, Islam, LGBT rights, Nigeria, religion, Sharia Law
Via JMG: The Professor Dies At Age 89
Johnson, who played Professor Roy Hinkley, died of natural causes at his home in Washington. Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann, just posted on Facebook, "My 2 favorite people are now gone. The professor past (sic) away this morning. My heart is broken." The other person who died is Bob Denver, who played Gilligan. He died in 2005. Johnson was on the show from 1964 to 1967. Johnson was not in the original opening of the show. He and Mary Ann were referred to as "The rest." But Denver insisted that they be included and that happened later.In his later years Johnson became a full-time fundraiser for AIDS research. His son died of the disease in 1994.
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Tricycle Daily Dharma January 16, 2014
Your Interwoven Self
For
a few moments just feel the body’s warmth and strength, its ability to
hold itself upright. The vitality and aliveness that you experience in
your body require various chemical and mineral substances, a continuous
supply of oxygen, the energy of the sun, and the cohesion and
conductivity of water. The Buddha instructs us to reflect on the body as
composed of the elements of earth, air, fire, and water, so that we
will see how this life is interwoven with universal processes.
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- Wes Nisker, "Evolution’s Body"
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January 16, 2014
Your Interwoven Self
For
a few moments just feel the body’s warmth and strength, its ability to
hold itself upright. The vitality and aliveness that you experience in
your body require various chemical and mineral substances, a continuous
supply of oxygen, the energy of the sun, and the cohesion and
conductivity of water. The Buddha instructs us to reflect on the body as
composed of the elements of earth, air, fire, and water, so that we
will see how this life is interwoven with universal processes.
|
- Wes Nisker, "Evolution’s Body"
Read the entire article in the Wisdom Collection through January 17, 2014
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