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Tricycle Daily Dharma October 17, 2013

Awakening to 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.

- Rev. Dr. Alfred Bloom, "Beyond Religion"

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Via AmericaBLog Gay: Homophobia Inc. and America’s newest export: Hate

In Part 1 of this series, we established motive: The desire for far-right social conservative groups here in America to export their anti-gay agenda throughout the world, and how the World Congress of Families (WCF) has been coordinating these efforts.

In Part 2, we explored the means: Funding and support provided by these right wing extremist groups so that Regnerus (and Marks) could manufacture deeply flawed results and false conclusions — then whitewash these papers through a badly compromised scientific journal publication system.

In Part 3, we’ll look at opportunity. Now they have a number of well-funded far right anti-gay organizations in the United States working in a coordinated fashion and a purportedly “legitimate” scientific study or two in hand. We”ll see how they have put these into action, to take the homophobia and lies they haven’t been able to peddle very successfully here in America lately and instead export them abroad.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Meets Russell Brand

Dalai Lama steals the laughs from British comic Russell Brand

Dalai Lama: "Lesser hair means more wisdom"

Dalai Lama: Happiness, Compassion and Mosquitos (funny)

Dalai Lama -- purpose of our life

Dalai Lama kills a Mosquito

Dalai Lama interview. Where is Heaven ? What happens after we die ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxbXGdZYqyQ

Donovan / Atlantis

Via Think It Real / FB:

Seattle+The Washington Bus+Jeanne+Alissa = wedding proposal

Via JMG: OREGON: Federal Marriage Suit Filed

Freedom To Marry can add a 20th state to its map of marriage lawsuits. Yesterday a federal suit was filed in Oregon.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene by Portland attorneys Lake Perriguey and Lea Ann Easton on behalf of two gay couples, seeks to have 2004's Measure 36 ruled unconstitutional. It names Gov. John Kitzhaber and Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, as well as a few other officials, as defendants. It argues that one couple—Deanna Geiger and Janine Nelson—should be able to legally marry. The other plaintiffs, Robert Deuhmig and William Griesar, were legally married in Vancouver, B.C., and wish to have their rights recognized in Oregon. The suit is separate from the anticipated $12 million campaign to overturn Measure 36 being orchestrated by Oregon United for Marriage. Volunteers are collecting signatures to put an initiative on the ballot next year.

Are you losing track of all the states in play? I sure am! It's a good thing. (Tipped by JMG reader Marc)

Labels: lawsuits, marriage equality, Oregon

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Tricycle Daily Dharma October 16, 2013

The Intimate Path

It is essential at the beginning of practice to acknowledge that the path is personal and intimate. It is no good to examine it from a distance as if it were someone else’s. You must walk it for yourself. In this spirit, you invest yourself in your practice, confident of your heritage, and train earnestly side by side with your sisters and brothers. It is this engagement that brings peace and realization.

- Robert Aitken Roshi, "The Teacher in Everything"

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Via JMG: RAMBO, BUT GAY

Stephen Fry meets an ex-gay therapist

Via JMG: HONDURAS: Activists March On Attorney General Over Epidemic Of Gay Murders

Globovision reports that 22 LGBT people have been murdered so far this year in Honduras. Five were murdered this month alone. Via Google Translate:

Members of the gay community of Honduras on Monday marched to the Attorney General to clarify and justice for the murder of about 22 companions so far in 2013, five of them in the last month. "We demand justice for cases of our colleagues who have been killed," said journalist José Zambrano, one of the leaders of the Association for a Better Life in Honduras (APUVIMEH), who participated in the march, which ended in front of the headquarters of the Special Prosecutor for crimes against life, an office which was created in August.

(Tipped by JMG reader Str8 Grandmother)

Labels: Central America, hate crimes, Honduras, murder

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First NC Couple Applies For License, Registrar Says, "Y'all Sign Right Here"

First NC Couple Applies For License, Registrar Says, "Y'all Sign Right Here"

Even though the registrar declined to sign the license, this may be the sweetest video you'll see all week. Via Asheville's Citizen-Times:

Brenda Clark and Carol McCrory, of Fairview, were first in line. "We are hopeful that Attorney General Cooper will do the right thing and recognize out right to marry after 25 years in a committed relationship," Clark said. Reisinger said he will accept and hold same-sex marriage applications and push the question of equal marriage rights to Cooper, the state’s chief legal adviser, Reisinger said in a statement Monday night. “I will let each couple know that it is my hope to grant them a license, but I need to seek the North Carolina Attorney General’s approval,” Reisinger said. “I have concerns about whether we are violating people’s civil rights based on this summer’s Supreme Court decision.”

Make the jump here to see the video

JMG Headline Of The Day

"The Portland Trail Blazers are in support of the Freedom to Marry and Religious Protection ballot initiative. We do so as believers in individual choice as a fundamental right of all people.” Source. (Tipped by JMG reader Glenn)

Labels: basketball, NBA, Portland, sports

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