Monday, November 18, 2013
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma November 18, 2013 Reconditioning the Mind There is a place at a certain point for overcoming concepts and conditioning, but there is also a lot of reconceiving and reconditioning. The idea is to transform the mind, not just to extract it from all cultural influences. Buddhism itself is a culture—one that attempts to train and condition minds in specific ways conducive to awakening. - David McMahan, "Context Matters" Read the entire article in the Wisdom Collection through November 19, 2013 For full access at any time, become a Tricycle Community Supporting or Sustaining Member Read Article
Tricycle Daily Dharma November 18, 2013
Reconditioning the Mind
There
is a place at a certain point for overcoming concepts and conditioning,
but there is also a lot of reconceiving and reconditioning. The idea is
to transform the mind, not just to extract it from all cultural
influences. Buddhism itself is a culture—one that attempts to train and
condition minds in specific ways conducive to awakening.
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- David McMahan, "Context Matters"
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November 18, 2013
Reconditioning the Mind
There
is a place at a certain point for overcoming concepts and conditioning,
but there is also a lot of reconceiving and reconditioning. The idea is
to transform the mind, not just to extract it from all cultural
influences. Buddhism itself is a culture—one that attempts to train and
condition minds in specific ways conducive to awakening.
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- David McMahan, "Context Matters"
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma November 17, 2013
Not about Comfort
A
central component of spiritual life is recognizing that practice is not
about ensuring that we feel secure or comfortable. It’s not that we
won’t feel these things when we practice; rather, it’s that we are also
bound to sometimes feel very uncomfortable and insecure, particularly
when exploring and working with our darker emotions and unhealed pain.
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- Ezra Bayda, “The Three Things we Fear Most”
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
8 Openly Homophobic Companies To Avoid
If
CEOs these days were smart, they would realize that over half of
America supports marriage equality. Companies like Amazon, Microsoft,
Starbucks, Google, and many more have famously “gone gay” and come out
in support of LGBT rights through monetary donations, employee
protection, and publicly promoting equality. It seems like publicly
opposing equality would be PR suicide these days, doesn’t it?
Surprisingly, this isn’t the case. The Human Rights Campaign conducts an
annual Corporate Equality Index and consistently hands out failing
grades to companies for either being un-inclusive, or downright
homophobic. Some of the following companies might be familiar to you,
but you might be surprised by who else made the list.
Via JMG: City Of Night Turns 50
The book is a landmark not only of gay literature -- it tells the story of a street hustler as he moves through the shadow world of the 1950s -- but also of American literature. “City of Night” was not the first overtly gay-themed book (Radclyffe Hall’s “The Well of Loneliness” appeared in 1928, and in 1956, Allen Ginsberg published his long poem “Howl,” followed, three years later, by William S. Burroughs with “Naked Lunch”) but it may be the most unapologetic, a searing screed of life on the edge. “Later I would think of America as one vast City of Night,” Rechy writes in the novel’s opening sentence, “stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard -- jukebox-winking, rock-n-roll-moaning: America at night fusing its darkcities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness.”Years ago I mentioned here that City Of Night remains my favorite novel of all time. Since I first read it decades ago in college, I've gifted it to friends dozens of times. (I still hate the ending.) You might also enjoy Rechy's Numbers and The Sexual Outlaw.
Labels: books, gay writers, John Rechy, LGBT History
Via JMG: God Sent The Russian Meteor Because He Was Pissed About All That Gayness
According to Russian television host Arkady Mamontov, the meteor that hit Russia earlier this year was sent by God because of "gay activity."
RELATED: Yesterday I reported about the secret recordings of LGBT groups made by the Russia government. It was on Mamontov's show that the recordings were aired.
Reposted from Joe
In a reference to the Old Testament story of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, famous journalist Arkady Mamontov said on his program that the fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite on February 15 in Russia was related to the country’s growing gay activity. Mamontov’s program ‘Special Correspondent’ airs on state channel Rossiya 1. The host called the meteorite a warning "to all of us that we should keep the family tradition, traditional love, or else something else - not only the Chelyabinsk meteorite - will hit us." The Russian LGBT Network rights group filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office on Thursday. The group accused the show of hate speech, according to group chairman Igor Kochetkov. He said that Mamontov also claimed that gays and lesbians want to "destroy [traditional] Russia.”Over 1500 people (including hundreds of children) were injured by the meteor's shock wave.
RELATED: Yesterday I reported about the secret recordings of LGBT groups made by the Russia government. It was on Mamontov's show that the recordings were aired.
Labels: batshittery, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, crackpots, crazy people, get the net, religion, Russia
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma November 16, 2013
One Day
The
life of one day is enough to rejoice. Even though you live for just one
day, if you can be awakened, that one day is vastly superior to one
endless life of sleep. . . . If this day in the lifetime of a hundred
years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again?
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- Zen Master Dogen, "Groundhog Day"
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Via JMG: FLORIDA: UCF Faces Contempt Charge For Refusing To Hand Over Regnerus Files
John Becker’s attorney, Andrea Mogensen, filed a motion for contempt against UCF for refusing to comply with court orders telling UCF to produce records relating to a controversial study by Mark Regnerus on gay and lesbian parenting. According to the motion, Becker seeks sanctions, including fines or imprisonment, for UCF’s Board of Trustees for failure to comply with the court’s Nov. 13 order, which stated that UCF had until Nov. 14 to produce the records. But even after UCF’s lawyers asked the court for clarification over the production of the records and received an extension to produce the records, UCF continued to disobey the court’s orders, the motion states. “It is inexcusable – and, frankly, inexplicable – for UCF to fail to produce public records in direct contravention of a court order,” said Barbara Peterson, attorney and president of Florida’s First Amendment Foundation. “The university’s failure to comply shows, unfortunately, not only contempt for the court but for the public’s constitutional right of access to government records.”The Regnerus study has been cited by numerous hate groups in their attempts to thwart LGBT equality and was even presented to Russia's national legislature as part of the campaign to allow the government to seize the children of gay parents. Regnerus claims to have been an impartial researcher, but he has testified against gay families before state legislatures and even submitted a SCOTUS brief against the repeal of DOMA. Read today's contempt filing in full. (Tipped by JMG reader Str8 Grandmother)
UNRELATED: UCF is the largest public university (by enrollment) in the nation and I am an alumnus. Go Knights?
Labels: crackpots, education, Florida, gay families, gay parenting, hate groups, Mark Regnerus, religion, UCF
Friday, November 15, 2013
Via JMG: MISSOURI: Gov Endorses Gay Marriage, Will Recognize Out-Of-State Marriages
Gov. Jay Nixon said Thursday that he supports legalizing gay marriage in Missouri during a news conference announcing that homosexual couples married under the laws of other states would be allowed to file combined state tax returns. In an executive order, Nixon directed the Department of Revenue to accept the combined returns as a reaction to the June ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act. That law barred same sex couples who were legally married from receiving any marriage-based federal benefits, such as tax exemptions and Social Security payments. Under state law, couples who file a joint federal return are required to file a combined state tax return. The executive order clarifies that the law applies to all couples, Nixon said.Nixon: "Many Missourians, including myself, are thinking about these issues of equality in new ways and reflecting on what constitutes discrimination. For me, that process has led to the belief that we shouldn’t treat folks differently because of who they are."
RELATED: Missouri passed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in 2004. A total of 21 states passed such bans from 2004-2006 when Ken Mehlman headed the RNC.
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Via JMG:Sen. Mark Kirk Cancels Senate Meeting Space For Anti-Gay Christian Groups
“Shame on you, Senator Kirk, for allowing vocal radical sexual minorities to drown out the voices of the natural family and faith that have made our nation free, prosperous, and stable for more than 200 years,” said Larry Jacobs, managing director of the World Congress of Families in an email to BuzzFeed. “Obviously Senator Kirk doesn’t care about families and children and freedom and has chosen to side with the policies of decline, death and disease promoted by the Sexual Radicals.” A spokesman for Kirk, Lance Trover, told BuzzFeed on Thursday night, “Sen. Kirk doesn’t affiliate with groups that discriminate.”Late last night the coalition sent out their press release again but with this "correction" at the top: "The Capitol Hill Symposium has been moved to Room #1539 in the Longworth House Office Building (NOT THE Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 562.)" OK, now who's in charge of the Longworth Building? (Tipped by JMG reader Ned)
Labels: hate groups, LGBT rights, Mark Kirk, religion, Russia, Washington DC, World Congress Of Families
Via JMG Boehner Rescues The Hate Groups
A follow-up from Buzzfeed's J. Lester Feder:
Reposted from Joe
The office of House Speaker John Boehner secured meeting space for the World Congress of Families after their original sponsor, Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, canceled their space in a Senate office building following an outcry from LGBT activists, the group’s leader said. World Congress of Families President Allan Carlson praised Boehner’s intervention at in opening remarks at the event, which is focusing on what “pro-family legislators” can learn from foreign laws like Russia’s ban on “promoting non-traditional sexual relationships to minors.” “At least in the House of Representatives people have not succumbed to the great fear” of LGBT activists, Carlson said, likening the situation to developments in Germany, France, and Italy as fascism took hold of Europe. “A great fear seems to be descending over what has been called the world’s greatest deliberative body … ideas are being suppressed, debate is being shut off, and minds are being closed.”More from Right Wing Watch:
Another speaker, Concerned Women for America’s Janice Shaw Crouse, who is also on WCF’s board of directors, blamed the change of plans on “a group of radicals” – an odd accusation since there had been no organized effort to prevent the event from taking place. Finally, Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute’s Austin Ruse declared that Sen. Kirk’s action made him less friendly to free speech than Russia – whose law criminalizing pro-gay-rights speech has the vocal support of C-FAM and WCF.RELATED: Ruse, not incidentally, is a columnist for Breitbart, which never identifies his work for anti-gay hate groups. Similarly, Breitbart does not identify columnist Ken Klukowski as a vice president of the KKK-affiliated Family Research Council.
Labels: Austin Ruse, Buzzfeed, GOP, hate groups, John Boehner, LGBT rights, religion, Russia, U.S. House, World Congress Of Families
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma November 15, 2013
Transforming Conflict
Learning
how to negotiate conflict demands that we become more present, more
fearless. We may need to relinquish the hopeful image of ourselves as
remaining serene under all circumstances, like sitting buddhas carved
from wood or stone. We have to expect our composure to be compromised as
we learn about the possibilities and creative solutions of working
directly with the conflict in our relationships. Even, and maybe
especially, when things don’t turn out as we want, our engagement with
discord refines and teaches us something, altering our life’s very
course.
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- Diane Musho Hamilton, “Transforming Conflict”
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Via JMG: Missouri Governor Endorses Gay Marriage
Gov. Jay Nixon said Thursday that he supports legalizing gay marriage in Missouri during a news conference announcing that homosexual couples married under the laws of other states would be allowed to file combined state tax returns. In an executive order, Nixon directed the Department of Revenue to accept the combined returns as a reaction to the June ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act. That law barred same sex couples who were legally married from receiving any marriage-based federal benefits, such as tax exemptions and Social Security payments. Under state law, couples who file a joint federal return are required to file a combined state tax return. The executive order clarifies that the law applies to all couples, Nixon said.Nixon: "Many Missourians, including myself, are thinking about these issues of equality in new ways and reflecting on what constitutes discrimination. For me, that process has led to the belief that we shouldn’t treat folks differently because of who they are."
RELATED: Missouri passed a constitutional ban in same-sex marriage in 2004. A total of 21 states passed such bans from 2004-2006 when Ken Mehlman headed the RNC.
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma November 14, 2013
Our Participatory Universe
Mass,
energy, space, and time as they are conceived by the human mind have no
existence apart from our conceptual awareness of them—no more than our
dreams at night. All appearances exist only relative to the mind that
experiences them, and all mental states arise relative to experienced
phenomena. We are living in a participatory universe, with no absolute
subjects or objects.
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- Alan Wallace, “Awakening to the Dream”
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Via jMG: No More Mr. Nice Gay: Ender's Game
Clip recap: "In this edition of No More Mr. Nice Gay, Guy explains why he isn't going to see the film adaption of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Mr. Card, Guy knows you're homophobic, but he's not boycotting to kill profits; he's doing it for good, old self-respect."
Reposted from Joe
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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