Some
people think by giving everything away, you end up with nothing. But
the Dharma is an inexhaustible well. However much you give of it, you
can always go back for more, because in this well the more you take from
it, the higher the water will rise.
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Gratitude
is a way of undercutting your ego—that is, it is a way of being
Buddhist. There is an awareness that we get now and then about what we
owe to others, and Shinran feels that that should become the
moving force of one’s life. That awakening, that awareness, transforms
your way of dealing with life, with people, and with all things.
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We
really must verify for ourselves that whatever thought comes into our
mind has never acquired any true existence: thoughts are never born,
they never dwell as something truly existing, and they have nowhere to
go when they disappear from our mind.
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GLAAD today kicked the current Boy Scouts controversy into the lap of Mitt Romney, digging out the above 1994 quote. Over 155,000 people have already signed the petition asking the Boy Scouts to reinstate den mother Jennifer Tyrrell, who was booted from her volunteer position for being gay.Tricycle Daily Dharma April 26, 2012 |
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Allowing Some Space
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche, "Allow for Space"
Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection |
The
practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute,
final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever
return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.
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“We must tell our children about a crime unique in human history… The one and only Holocaust — six million innocent people — men, women, children, babies — sent to their deaths just for being different, just for being Jewish. We tell them, our children, about the millions of Poles and Catholics and Roma and gay people and so many others who also must never be forgotten. We must tell our children… But more than that, we must teach them. Because remembrance without resolve is a hollow gesture. Awareness without action changes nothing. In this sense, ‘never again’ is a challenge to us all — to pause and to look within.”The number of gays who perished in the Holocaust is unknown, although as many as 100,000 homosexual men were arrested by the Nazis.
California
state Sen. Ted Lieu (D) has introduced a bill that would outlaw
"ex-gay" or so-called reparative therapy for children under the age of
18. Around The Capitol sums up the proposed item: This bill would prohibit psychotherapists, as defined, from performing sexual orientation change efforts, as defined, in the absence of informed consent of the patient. The bill would require a specified statement to be included on the informed consent form. Informed consent would not be effective for patients under 18 years of age. The bill would provide for a cause of action against psychotherapists by patients, former patients, or certain other persons in specified cases.Think Progress notes that the bill passed out of its Senate subcommittee yesterday.
"Stop
using the word gay, because implicit in the notion of a gay identity is
the fact that they’re born gay and that it should be a fundamental
human right, but fundamental human rights are based on human nature not
on capricious desires. If fundamental human rights are based on
capricious desires, guess what, we’d have every group on this planet
with a different hobby arguing for fundamental rights and benefits based
on the fact that they play hockey, based on the fact that they play
basketball or surf, or anything that they’re interested in." - Anti-gay
activist Ryan Sorba, speaking at Awakening 2012, a convention of hate group leaders.
JMG reader Alan points us to this AP story:In a rare and forceful act of advocacy, an Iowa newspaper devoted the entire front page of its Sunday edition to an anti-bullying editorial after a gay teen committed suicide. Relatives have said 14-year-old Kenneth Weishuhn Jr. suffered intense harassment, including threatening cellphone calls and nasty comments posted online, after coming out to family and friends about a month ago. He died April 15 from what the local sheriff's office described only as a "self-inflicted injury." The Sioux City Journal's front-page opinion piece calls on the community to be pro-active in stopping bullying and urges members to learn more about the problem by seeing the acclaimed new film, "Bully," which documents the harassment of a Sioux City middle school student. It notes that while many students are targeted for being gay, "we have learned a bully needs no reason to strike."Hit the link for the full editorial.
