Complete Engagement | July 8, 2014
Only one thing
made him happy
and now that
it was gone
everything
made him happy.
made him happy
and now that
it was gone
everything
made him happy.
—Leonard Cohen, "Leonard Koan"
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Flower of the Day: 07/08/14
“Do
not feed your sadness – this is unnecessary suffering created by the
victim trying to sneak in through the back door. True pain doesn’t last
long. You get in touch with it, and soon after it passes. Oftentimes,
sadness is a messenger that prepares you for getting in touch with the
deep-rooted pain that leads to your healing. This is a healthy sadness,
while an unhealthy sadness is always linked to an accusation. It is born
out of anger; and although anger’s role in the divine game is to take
you somewhere, anger can also be a major distraction. In most cases,
anger is merely an escape from this sadness that could get you in touch
with the primordial pain.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
Complete Engagement | July 8, 2014
Ultimately, from the point of view of
the dharma—at least, my understanding of it—cultivating your mind
through meditation is also social radicalism. Because if the goal is to
produce more people who are manifesting the attributes of
enlightenment—namely, wisdom and compassion—then that, by necessity, is a
transformation of the social situation as well.
—Richard Reoch, "The Path of Complete Engagement"
Monday, July 7, 2014
Via JMG: Russian Priest: The World Cup Is A Homosexual Abomination Because Shoes
While thousands of Russian fans were left devastated by their team's early exit from the World Cup tournament, one Orthodox priest has openly rejoiced at their failure, denouncing the contest as a "homosexual abomination." Priest Alexander Shumsky seems to have taken particular exception to the brightly colored footwear on display in Brazil, writing in his column on Christian website Russian People's Line that players who wear green, yellow, pink or blue shoes helped promote the "gay rainbow." "Wearing pink or blue shoes, [the players] might as well wear women's panties or a bra," Shumsky wrote, adding that he was also offended by the "unthinkable" hairstyles of some of the players in Brazil.(Tipped by JMG reader Kevin)
George Takei: Why I love a country that once betrayed me
Publicado em 04/07/2014
When he was a child, George Takei
and his family were forced into an internment camp for
Japanese-Americans, as a "security" measure during World War II. 70
years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising,
personal definition of patriotism and democracy.
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Thinking Like a Mountain | July 7, 2014
How do you watch a mountain? Nothing’s
going to happen in any time frame that you can consider—except the light
changes on it. And so that was my mountain watching. The changing light
on the mountain was like the changing thoughts in my mind, just these
little shifting shadows, that’s all that it is.
—Gary Snyder, “Thinking Like a Mountain”
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Via Daily Dharma
The Everyday Sublime | July 6, 2014
To experience the everyday sublime one
needs to dismantle piece by piece the perceptual conditioning that
insists on seeing oneself and the world as essentially comfortable,
permanent, solid, and mine. It means to embrace suffering and conflict,
rather than to shy away from them, to cultivate the radical attention
(yonisomanasikara) that contemplates the tragic, changing, empty, and
impersonal dimensions of life, rather than succumbing to fantasies of
self-glorification or self-loathing.
—Stephen Batchelor, “The Everyday Sublime”
Flower of the Day: 07/06/14
“Gratitude
opens the portals to ascension. It has the great power of illuminating
your life. When gratitude blossoms, the idea of the victim disappears
from one’s system. All complaints, all self-criticisms, and all the
games of accusation fall away. Gratitude is an immunizing agent that
protects you against evil. It increases trust and opens the paths
towards the Infinite. One can seek gratitude, but one cannot create it
with the mind. Gratitude blooms when you are mature enough for it.”
Sri Prem Baba
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Via AUSTRALIA: New Study Says Kids Of Gay Parents FB:
Via ABC News Australia:
Children of same-sex parents enjoy better levels of health and wellbeing than their peers from traditional family units, new Australian research suggests. In what they described as the largest study of its type in the world, University of Melbourne researchers surveyed 315 same-sex parents and 500 children about their physical health and social wellbeing. Lead researcher Doctor Simon Crouch said children raised by same-sex partners scored an average of 6 per cent higher than the general population on measures of general health and family cohesion. "That's really a measure that looks at how well families get along, and it seems that same-sex-parent families and the children in them are getting along well, and this has positive impacts on child health," Dr Crouch said.Read the full study. (Tipped by JMG readers Alan and Str8 Grandmother)
Via Daily Dharma
Forget the Self | July 5, 2014
To forget the self is to be enlightened
by all things. Buddhist teaching suggests that the Self is an illusion,
and identity is an ongoing confluence of forces. That means that, very
literally, our sense of self is shaped by the world around us.
—Richard Eskow, "DNA Sutra"
Flower of the Day: 07/05/14
“Mental
equanimity means placing one’s mind on God. Setting one’s mind on God
is like putting down your baggage on the train’s luggage rack and
relaxing along the journey. But the mind prefers to carry the burden of
the baggage because leaving it on the rack requires trust. At the
nucleus of the conditioned mind is fear, and one of the main aspects of
fear is control. The ways of God are mysterious, and it’s not always
possible to understand what God has planned for you. So one creates many
expectations about one’s life and hopes that God will meet them. Yet
only God understands our hearts and knows what we really need. This is
why we must become aware of our lack of trust that has caused us to
carry such a heavy burden.”
Sri Prem Baba
Friday, July 4, 2014
Via Pink News: United Nations to recognise same-sex marriage everywhere
The United Nations has announced that it will globally
extend its employee benefits to workers in same-sex marriages or other
unions.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the change yesterday, stating: “Human rights are at the core of the mission of the United Nations.
“I am proud to stand for greater equality for all staff, and I call on all members of our UN family to unite in rejecting homophobia as discrimination that can never be tolerated at our workplace.”
The move will impact the UN’s over 44,000 staff across the globe.
Hyung Hak Nam, of LGBTI group UN-GLOBE, said: “It is with great pleasure that I would like to inform you that, at long last, the UN will begin recognizing staff members’ legal same-sex unions.
Make the jump here to read the full article
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the change yesterday, stating: “Human rights are at the core of the mission of the United Nations.
“I am proud to stand for greater equality for all staff, and I call on all members of our UN family to unite in rejecting homophobia as discrimination that can never be tolerated at our workplace.”
The move will impact the UN’s over 44,000 staff across the globe.
Hyung Hak Nam, of LGBTI group UN-GLOBE, said: “It is with great pleasure that I would like to inform you that, at long last, the UN will begin recognizing staff members’ legal same-sex unions.
Make the jump here to read the full article
An Open Letter to the People who Hate Obama more than they Love America
I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You
hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the
right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You
hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot. Maybe if you
talked about creating jobs more than you talk about why you hate gay
people we wouldn't call you bigots. Maybe if you talked about black
people without automatically assuming they are on food stamps while
demanding their birth certificates we wouldn't call you racist. You hate
socialism and social justice. You hate regulations and taxes and
spending and the Government. You hate.
You like war. You like torture. You like Jesus. I don't know how
in the hell any of that is compatible, but no one ever accused you
haters of being over-committed to ideological consistency. You like
people who look like you or at least hate most of the things that you
hate. You hate everything else.
Now, I know you profess to love our country and the founding fathers (unless you are reminded that they believed in the separation of church and state), but I need to remind you that America is NOT what Fox News says it is. America is a melting pot, it always has been. We are a multi-cultural amalgamation of all kinds of people, and yet you still demonize everyone who is not a rich, white, heterosexual christian male or his submissive and obedient wife.
You hate liberals, moderates, hell, anyone who disagrees with Conservative dogma as espoused by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. You hate em.
Well, here are the facts, Jack. If you hate the Government then you are unqualified to manage it. If you hate gay people more than you love America than you should take your own advice and get the hell out. There are several countries that are openly hostile to gay people, but they are full of brown people and you don't like them much either from what I understand. It looks like you are screwed, but that's not what I am here to tell you.
More rant below. . .
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/09/1053088/-An-open-letter-to-the-people-who-hate-Obama-more-than-they-love-America?detail=email#
You like war. You like torture. You like Jesus. I don't know how
in the hell any of that is compatible, but no one ever accused you
haters of being over-committed to ideological consistency. You like
people who look like you or at least hate most of the things that you
hate. You hate everything else.Now, I know you profess to love our country and the founding fathers (unless you are reminded that they believed in the separation of church and state), but I need to remind you that America is NOT what Fox News says it is. America is a melting pot, it always has been. We are a multi-cultural amalgamation of all kinds of people, and yet you still demonize everyone who is not a rich, white, heterosexual christian male or his submissive and obedient wife.
You hate liberals, moderates, hell, anyone who disagrees with Conservative dogma as espoused by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. You hate em.
Well, here are the facts, Jack. If you hate the Government then you are unqualified to manage it. If you hate gay people more than you love America than you should take your own advice and get the hell out. There are several countries that are openly hostile to gay people, but they are full of brown people and you don't like them much either from what I understand. It looks like you are screwed, but that's not what I am here to tell you.
More rant below. . .
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/09/1053088/-An-open-letter-to-the-people-who-hate-Obama-more-than-they-love-America?detail=email#
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