ॐ Blue Buddha Quote Collective shared 2012 Healing the Planet 2012's photo.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma April 30, 2012
Every Situation, An Opportunity
Spiritual
practitioners thrive in unpredictable conditions, testing and refining
the inner qualities of heart and mind. Every situation becomes an
opportunity to abandon judgment and opinions and to simply give complete
attention to what is.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Via Follower of the Buddha / Facebook:
Namo Buddhaya Namo Dharmaya Namo Sanghaya སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་དང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་
Via JMG:
Today's Silly Lie From NOM
This weekend NOM posted the above story to their blog and Facebook page: "Clarence and Mayme Vail just became
Guinness World Record holders for the longest living married couple —
83 years and counting! So what's their secret?" Bolding is mine because
Clarence and Mayme have both been dead for years. That's their secret! (Via JMG reader Robert)Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma April 29, 2012
Inexhaustible Dharma
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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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma April 28, 2012
The Moving Force of Gratitude
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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- Rev. Dr. Alfred Bloom, "Beyond Religion"
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Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Friday, April 27, 2012
Via AmericaBlog Gay:
I wonder how Nebraska would handle a racist football coach?
Which is fine, so long as he keeps it to himself. But I'd like to
know how someone can be hired, or kept on, as a teacher once a school,
especially a state school spending taxpayer money, finds out that the
teacher is a very public bigot. And lest anyone raise the free speech
canard, would the University of Nebraska really keep an avowed racist
activist as a teacher, or a coach? How about a Klansman or a neo-Nazi?
Funny how complicated free speech gets when you take the gay out of the
equation.
Via Tricycle Dialy Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma April 27, 2012
An Investigation of the Mind
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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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Via JMG: GLAAD Challenges Romney On Boy Scouts
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.Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
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Allowing Some Space
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche, "Allow for Space"
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Via AmericaBlogGay:
Republicans defend "don't say gay" bill in Missouri
You see, they're not anti-gay. They simply don't want to have to explain to young children why it's okay for you to marry a goat. Seriously.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
JMG HomoQuotable - Barney Frank
"I don’t need the president’s permission to get married. He’s doing a great thing against DOMA. I think you make a great mistake by focusing only on negative things, I think that’s a mistake politically. I think we ought to be celebrating the gains as well as pushing further. [snip] The president did an enormous thing for us when he not only said that DOMA was unconstitutional, but said that any gay and lesbian issues had to be decided with that higher standard. I’m very happy with that. I’m not going to criticize him for not going further on that." - Barney Frank, speaking to the Washington Blade.
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma April 25, 2012
Eliminating Suffering
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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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
NEVER AGAIN: President Obama Mentions Gay Victims Of The Holocaust ia JMG: NEVER AGAIN: President Obama Mentions Gay Victims Of The Holocaust
In a speech yesterday at Washington's Holocaust Memorial, President Obama mentioned the homosexual victims of the Holocaust alongside a list of other groups targeted by the Nazi Party.
“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.
Via JMG: CALIFORNIA: Proposed Bill Outlaws "Ex-Gay" Therapy For Kids Under 18
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.
Via JMG: Your Gayness Is A Hobby
"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.Bia JMG: Babs Turns 70 Today
And here's her first ever charting single, People. The clip below is from her Oscar-winning performance in the 1968 movie version of Funny Girl, but the single reached #5 on the Billboard pop chart when it was first released from the 1964 original Broadway cast recording. Yes kids, Babs had her first hit record 48 years ago.
Reposted from Joe
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