According to a count by the office of Rep. Jean Wyllys, Brazil's first openly gay lawmaker, ten states out of twenty-seven now automatically convert such unions into marriage, they include: Alagoas, Bahia, Ceara, Sergipe, Espiritu Santo, Piaui, Sao Paulo, Parana, Mato Grosso do Sul and the Federal District.Marriages conducted in those ten states are recognized nationwide. (Via Zack Ford)
Love
and compassion make us feel safe because they express the safety of
their source—the deep buddhanature within us, the unchanging inner space
of primal awareness that cannot be harmed. By receiving unconditional
love and compassion from those who’ve awakened before us, we sense that
we too can relax into the very source of such love in the unconditioned
nature of our minds, our buddhanature.
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Being
intolerant of suffering, in the Buddhist sense, does not mean that we
reject it or fight against it. It means that we stop and look at it, not
morbidly, but with faith in the possibility of living a joyful and
peaceful life.
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Consider
the possibility, and I am only saying consider the possibility, that
maybe nothing is unforgivable. Maybe there is a way to find forgiveness
even for what we have believed for so long to be unforgivable. Explore
this mindfully.
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Maybe
we think that nirvana is a place where there are no problems, no more
delusions. Maybe we think nirvana is something very beautiful, something
unattainable. We always think nirvana is something very different from
our own life. But we must really understand that it is right here, right
now.
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“Freedom to Marry applauds the people of Uruguay and their government for moving forward into a future in which all loving and committed couples can share in the freedom to marry and the meaning and protections marriage brings to families. Uruguay’s vote today to move past civil union to marriage itself, Argentina’s enactment of the freedom to marry in 2010 and the Mexico Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling last month in favor of the freedom to marry -- citing the U.S Supreme Court cases of Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia -- all are inspirations and examples decision-makers here in the United States, including our Supreme Court justices, should swiftly follow to get the U.S. where it needs to be.”
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Most
of our suffering comes from habitual thinking. If we try to stop it out
of aversion to thinking, we can’t; we just go on and on and on. So the
important thing is not to get rid of thought, but to understand it. And
we do this by concentrating on the space in the mind, rather than on the
thought.
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The Uruguayan Senate will vote the marriage equality bill tomorrow, Tuesday, April 2. As you may remember, the bill had been passed by the Chamber of Deputies in December, but the Senate has modified it. According to our Constitution, those modifications will have to be confirmed by the Deputies for the bill to be finally approved. The modifications are minor and do not affect the bill's essence. We know the bill will be passed by both Chambers by an overwhelming majority, and in a speedy way. After this Tuesday's vote by the Senate, the lower chamber will probably vote and pass it in one or two weeks (all in April). Once passed, the government has up to 90 days to regulate it, i.e., to make the necessary changes in red tape to implement it. Hopefully, the first couples will be getting married in July/August.Zoom, zoom, zoom.
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In
order to cultivate a truly loving and kind heart, we need to develop
the practices that cultivate and strengthen forgiveness and the natural
compassion within us. Our ability to forgive allows us to make space for
our ability to meet suffering—our suffering as well as the suffering of
others—with a kind heart.
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The
truth is, we don’t really want to be free from desire or to admit that
clinging to the pleasures of the senses—the taste of delicious food; the
sound of music, gossip, or a joke; the touch of a sexual embrace—ends
unavoidably in disappointment and suffering. We don’t have to deny that
pleasant feelings are pleasurable. But we must remember that like every
other feeling, pleasure is impermanent.
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Silence
is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence
doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not
disturbed inside. If you’re truly silent, then no matter what situation
you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
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