Even if you sit for twenty minutes and spend twenty minutes trying to bring your mind back to the breath, you have not failed at meditation! Catching the mind as it drifts off and bringing it back IS mediation. Don't be discouraged.. keep going!
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
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Even if you sit for twenty minutes and spend twenty minutes trying to bring your mind back to the breath, you have not failed at meditation! Catching the mind as it drifts off and bringing it back IS mediation. Don't be discouraged.. keep going!
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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 4, 2012
Be Who You Are
Don’t
try to do anything at all except what you’re doing, which will seem
like nothing to most observers. Little do they know! Even if what you’re
doing is being distracted and hating sitting on your cushion
accomplishing nothing—just do that. Don’t try to be anything other than
who and what you are.
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- Brad Warner, "How to Not Waste Time"
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Monday, September 3, 2012
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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 3, 2012
No-working is True Working
The
idea of naturalness is that no-working is true working. It’s the
understanding that things don’t happen due to your own calculation and
effort. You don’t sit there thinking, 'All right now, if I’m able to
follow the eightfold path and do everything the right way, then I will
attain awakening.' That’s your own deluded, ego-based effort. I did this, I am able to do that—the
moment you start thinking that way, your ego mind comes into play. Yet
when the karmic conditions are right, when your causes and conditions
come together, you can progress along the path.
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- Reverend Patricia Kanaya Usuki, "The Great Compassion"
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma September 2, 2012
Fundamental Well-Being
We
need to see the primordial potential in all of our experiences in the
same way a doctor sees the health and well-being in his patients. If a
patient didn’t possess a fundamental well-being, what would be the point
of prescribing such antidotes as medicines, exercise, or new diets?
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- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, "Free Expression"
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Via JMG: BRAZIL: Gay Man Wins Paternity Leave
For the first time ever, a Brazilian court has granted paternity leave to a gay man who just adopted a child with his partner. Normally Brazilian fathers are only given five days off work after becoming parents, while mothers receive four months off, but a Brazilian court found that it was discriminatory for a gay couple to receive less combined parental leave than a heterosexual couple. As a result Lucimar da Silva will become the first Brazilian man to receive the same parental leave as a woman. Brazil’s social security agency has agreed to honor the decision. ‘However unusual it may seem to grant maternity leave to a male person … this hypothesis is possible when the father takes care of the newborn,’ the agency told Brazilian TV network O Globo.Unfortunately this decision does not set precedent and future applicants will also have to go to court to earn paternity leave.
JMG Quote Of The Day - Micky Ward
"I
can’t support Scott Brown. I just can’t do it. I found out Scott is
anti-union and I’m a Teamster guy. I found out he’s also against gay
marriage and I say if you love someone you should have the same rights
no matter who you are." - Boxing legend Micky Ward,
retracting his endorsement of Sen. Scott Brown, who was about to appear
at Ward's gym for a photo op. Mark Wahlberg played Ward in the
Oscar-winning movie The Fighter.Saturday, September 1, 2012
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Accepting Thoughts
- Sayadaw U Tejaniya, "Observing Minds Want to Know"
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Friday, August 31, 2012
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Tricycle Daily Dharma August 31, 2012
Cultivating Equanimity
If
you work hard at something but find that too many obstacles prevent you
from accomplishing it, you may have to give up. In that case, you
shouldn’t get depressed. Conditions aren’t right. Perhaps this will
change, perhaps it won’t. You are not a failure. Becoming upset only
causes suffering.
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- Master Sheng Yen, "The Wanderer"
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Via JMG: "Ex-Gay" Ban Heads To Gov. Jerry Brown
California's bill to ban "ex-gay" therapy for minors has cleared its final hurdle before heading to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.
The state Senate on Thursday sent the governor a bill that would prohibit so-called sexual-conversion therapy for minors, aimed at changing their orientation from gay to straight. Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) proposed the measure based on concern by medical groups involving psychologists and psychiatrists that the therapy is not based on sound scientific principles. "The entire house of medicine has rejected this phony and sham therapy. It really is junk science,’’ Lieu told his fellow Senators. "The American Psychiatric Assn. says it poses great risk to individuals including feelings of guilt, self-hatred, shame. Some people commit suicide having gone through this.’’ The bill was approved with a 22-12 party line vote, with Republicans objecting to the state telling parents and teenagers what kind of therapy they can pursue.The bill is vigorously opposed by PFOX, NARTH, the Catholic Church, and other hate groups that enjoy brainwashing and torturing gay children.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Via JMG: USMC Commandant: I'm Not Seeing Any Problems Since The Repeal Of DADT
The
Commandant of the Marine Corps says that he's not heard of any problems
related to the repeal of DADT. Michael Lavers reports at the Washington Blade: “I don’t think there is a problem,” said Commandant Gen. James Amos during a National Press Club luncheon in downtown Washington. “I don’t see it. I don’t hear about it.” [snip] “We obey orders,” said Amos. “We do that better than anybody does and we have.” He again noted that he doesn’t “even get a question” about openly gay and lesbian servicemembers from subordinates and other Marines. “I don’t hear anything,” said Amos. “I’m not seeing anything at all, so I’m very pleased with how it’s turned out. I’m very proud of the Marines."RELATED: You may recall that Amos was the most strident opponent of the repeal out of all the heads of the military branches. In December 2010 he even claimed that openly gay soldiers would cause Marines to lose their legs.
"When your life hangs on a line, on the intuitive behavior of the young man ... who sits to your right and your left, you don't want anything distracting you," Amos told reporters at the Pentagon. "I don't want to lose any Marines to distraction. I don't want to have any Marines that I'm visiting at Bethesda (hospital) with no legs," he said. He added that "mistakes and inattention or distractions cost Marines' lives. That's the currency of this fight."
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