GoFundMe Campaign To Support Orlando Victims Surpasses $1.6 Million

by The Gaily Grind Staff
06/13/2016

---

2.8kshares

A GoFundMe campaign set up by Equality Florida to help support the victims of Sunday’s horrific shooting at Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub, has reached over $1.6 million thus far.
Equality Florida, the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, will ensure that all funds raised will go ‘directly to the victims and families affected by the horrific shooting at Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub.’

In its first 24 hours, the campaign has garnered over 40,000 donations, amounting to over $1.6 million.

The organisation is assuring donors that funds will be properly managed, saying, “We are working with a team of attorneys and experts, including the National Center for Victims of Crime, which deployed funds in both Chattanooga and Aurora, to ensure funds are distributed correctly.”

---

This fabulous button delivers
The Gaily Grind stories to you
on Facebook:

---

“We are heartbroken and angry that senseless violence has once again destroyed lives in our state and in our country,” the organization writes.
“Gay clubs hold a significant place in LGBTQ history. They were often the only safe gathering place and this horrific act strikes directly at our sense of safety. June commemorates our community standing up to anti-LGBTQ violence at the Stonewall Inn, the nightclub that has become the first LGBTQ site recognized as a national monument.”
“We have received a steady stream of emails and messages from those seeking to help or to make sense of the senseless. We make no assumptions on motive. We will await the details in tears of sadness and anger. We stand in solidarity and keep our thoughts on all whose lives have been lost or altered forever in this tragedy.”
If you would like to make a contribution to the fund, please visit: https://www.gofundme.com/PulseVictimsFund.

- See more at: http://www.thegailygrind.com/2016/06/13/gofundme-campaign-to-support-orlando-victims-surpasses-1-6-million/#sthash.MjV1cpHd.dpuf

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 11/06/2016

Si amas de verdad, no pides nada a cambio. Si negocias amor justamente es porque eres incapaz de amar. La negociación funciona así: ‘¿Lo que quieres es atención? Está bien, te doy atención, pero tendrás que hacer exactamente lo que yo quiero, como yo quiero'. Este es un juego nefasto cuyo objetivo es hacer del otro un esclavo para atendertus necesidades y expectativas. Esto genera codependencia, lo que implicadepender de la miseria del otro para sentirse feliz. Necesitas hacer que el otro se sienta débil para poder sentirte fuerte. De esta forma las parejasquitan energía uno al otroy refuerzan la falsa idea de yo. Pagan este precio exorbitante, que es la pérdida de la libertad, porque están completamente dependientes. Y lo peor es que encima llaman a esoamor.”

Del libro “Amar y Ser Libre”

“When we truly love, we ask for nothing in return. When we try to bargain with love it is because we are not yet capable of truly loving. Negotiating with love looks like this: ‘Is it attention you want? Okay, I’ll give you attention, but you will have to do exactly what I want, in the way that I want it.’ This game’s objectiveis to make the other a slave in order to attend to our needs and expectations. This creates co-dependency and requires the other’s misery in order for us to feel happy. We need the other to feel weak in order for us to feel powerful. Subsequently, as partners, we suck energy from one another, reinforcing this false idea of self. We pay an exorbitant price: the loss of freedom.We become completely dependent on the other. Unfortunately, this is still what we call ‘love’.”
From the book To Love and Be Free

Via Ram Dass

June 12, 2016

I'm explicitly making my life a teaching, by expressing the lessons that I've learned through it so it can become a map for other people. Everybody's life could be like that, if they choose to make it so; choose to reflect what they've been through and to share it with others.

Via Daily Dharma / June 12, 2016: Make Your Mind Like the Earth

Disgusting things get thrown on the earth, but the earth isn’t horrified by them. When you make your mind like the earth, neither agreeable nor disagreeable sensory impressions will take charge of it.

—Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "The Joy of Effort"

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 11/06/2016

“O que é certo e o que é errado, no plano do coração, pode ser completamente diferente do que é certo e do que é errado no plano da mente. A mente segue tradições, segue elementos da cultura. A tradição tem uma função na sociedade e durante uma fase da jornada ela é útil, mas chega um momento em que ela sabota a possibilidade da transcendência.”

“Lo que está bien y lo que está mal, en el plano del corazón, puede ser completamente diferente de lo que está bien y lo que está mal en el plano de la mente. La mente sigue tradiciones, sigue elementos de la cultura. La tradición tiene unafunción en la sociedad y durante una fase del camino es útil, pero llega un momento en que sabotea la posibilidad de la trascendencia.”

“What is right and what is wrong at the level of the heart can be completely different from what we deem right and wrong at the level of the mind. The mind follows traditions; it follows cultural norms. Conditionings have their place in society and, up until a certain phase of the journey, are useful. However, there comes a time when these conditionings sabotage the further possibility of transcendence.”

Via Daily Dharma / June 11, 2016: Everyday Enlightenment

Great enlightenment is the tea and rice of daily activity.

—Dogen, "Tea and Rice"

Via JMG: Gay Bicyclist Rushing To Hook-Up Gets Tackled By NYPD When He Barrels Into Obama’s Motorcade [VIDEO]

So this happened yesterday. Via TMZ:

President Obama got in the way of potential true love when the people protecting him opened a can of whoop ass on an unsuspecting NYC bicyclist. Daniel Provencio, 59, tells us he was hot to trot for a blind date — pumping “Call Me Maybe” through his headphones — when NYC cops tackled him for riding into a secured area just before the Prez breezed through. Turns out Daniel was on his way to hook up with a guy he met on an online dating website the night before … he wouldn’t say which.

The Daily News is questioning the NYPD’s tactics:

A cop grabbed Provencio and knocked him off the bike onto the ground, then fell to the ground himself. A helmeted cop roughly grabbed Provencio’s arm and twisted it behind his back. Cops rolled Provencio over until he was face down, stuck a knee in his back and cuffed him as a Secret Service agent walked over to observe. Obama’s motorcade rolled past during the arrest. Provencio did not appear to be resisting during the encounter. He was issued a summons for disorderly conduct, police said.

Provenico says his hook-up lost interest because he was hours late due to being interrogated by the cops. “Manhattan men are huge on punctuality.”

See the video and more here

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 10/06/2016

“Reconhecer nossas contradições internas é um passo fundamental dentro do processo evolutivo, porque é o início de uma mudança de consciência; é o início de uma mudança de identidade. Quando pode transcender suas contradições, o que significa deixar de ser governado pela mente condicionada e passar a ser guiado pelo coração, você sabe para onde deve ir e paga o preço que tem que pagar para seguir os comandos do coração.” 

“Reconocer nuestras contradicciones internas es un paso fundamental dentro del proceso evolutivo, porque es el inicio de un cambio deconsciencia; es el inicio de un cambio de identidad. Cuando puedes trascender tus contradicciones, lo que significa dejar de ser gobernado por la mente condicionada y pasar a ser guiado por el corazón, sabespara dónde debes ir y pagas el precio que hay que pagar para seguir los comandos del corazón.”

“To recognize our internal contradictions is a fundamental step within our evolutionary process, because it is the beginning of a change in our consciousness. It signals the beginning of a change in our identity. When we can transcend our contradictions, it means we stop being governed by our conditioned mind and we start being guided by our hearts. We know where we have to go and we pay the necessary price in order to follow the commands of our hearts.”

Via Daily Dharma / June 10, 2016: Falling Blossoms, Scattering Leaves

Make the universe your companion, bearing in mind the true nature of things—mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity—and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

—Matsuo Basho, "Whirling Petals, Windblown Leaves"

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 09/06/2016

“Nosso grande desafio é superar nossas contradições, pois elas são a fonte do sofrimento. O sofrimento nasce justamente pelo fato de existirem duas forças opostas atuando dentro de nós. Dentro de você, um eu quer a família e outro eu quer ficar sozinho. Um eu quer ir para a esquerda e o outro quer ir para a direita. Essa divisão gera um cabo de força, que gera tensão, gera stress e desdobramentos de sofrimento. Quanto maior a contradição, maior o sofrimento.”

“Nuestro gran desafío es superar nuestras contradicciones, puesellas son la fuente del sufrimiento. El sufrimiento nacejustamente por el hechode existir dos fuerzas opuestas actuando dentro de nosotros. Dentro de ti, un yoquierela familia y otro yoquiere estar solo. Un yo quiere ir hacia la izquierda y el otro quiere ir a la derecha. Esta división genera un tira y afloje, que genera tensión, genera estrés y desdoblamientos de sufrimiento. Cuanto mayor La contradicción, mayor el sufrimiento.”

“Our greatest challenge is to go beyond our contradictions as they are the source of suffering. Suffering is born out of the fact that there are two opposing forces acting inside of us. There is a part of us that wants a family and another part of us that wants to be single. There is a self that wants to go to the left and another self that wants to go the right. This division creates a tug-of-war within us, generating tension, stress and all other kinds of suffering. The greater the contradiction, the greater the suffering.”

Via Daily Dharma / June 9, 2016: Empowered Practice

We call this mindful choice in action: our deeds and words should be in line with ultimate reality. We call this well-balanced and perfect practice. If you only understand ultimate reality but cannot use it in your daily life, your practice is not well balanced; it is not empowered.

—Venerable Chwasan, "The Grace in This World"

Via Ram Dass:

 June 8, 2016

The curriculum of service provides us with information about our strengths as well, and we discover how these contribute to genuinely help-full service. Each time we drop our masks and meet heart-to-heart, reassuring one another simply by the quality of our presence, we experience a profound bond which we intuitively understand is nourishing everyone. Each time we quiet our mind, our listening becomes sharp and clear, deep and perceptive; we realize that we know more that we thought we knew, and can reach out and hear, as if from inside, the heart of someone's pain. Each time we are able to remain open to suffering, despite our fear and defensiveness, we sense a love in us which becomes increasingly unconditional.

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 08/06/2016

“Ao se deixar ser guiado pela mente condicionada, você inevitavelmente é lançado ao sofrimento. A mente condicionada te leva para o caminho oposto daquele que o seu coração determina; ela te leva a classificar o que é certo e o que é errado e te faz agir a partir dessa classificação. Então você aprende a fazer o que julga ser o correto apenas para receber recompensas, mas isso não quer dizer que você está feliz com isso.”

“Al dejarte guiar por la mente condicionada, eres inevitablemente lanzado al sufrimiento. La mente condicionada te lleva hacia el camino opuesto al que tu corazón determina; te lleva a clasificar lo que es correcto y lo que está equivocadoy te hace actuar desde esta clasificación. Entonces aprendes a hacer lo que juzgasque escorrecto solo para recibir recompensas, pero eso no quiere decir que estás feliz con ello.”

“If we allow ourselves to be guided by the conditioned mind, we inevitably are catapulted into suffering. Our conditioned mind takes us to the complete opposite path of our heart; it makes us classify what is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ and makes us act from this set of rules. Then we learn to act according to what we believe to be correct in order to fulfill an expectation, but this is not what makes us happy.”

Via Daily Dharma / June 8, 2016: A Living Offering

To cut a bloom is to destroy a living thing. The best flowers to offer are those that have not been picked at all but fall from the tree and are gathered in a cloth before they reach the ground.

—Hans Georg Berger, "The Most Suitable Offerings"

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 07/06/2016

“Uma das principais características do ego humano é a necessidade de ser amado exclusivamente. A criança nasce amando e, ao mesmo tempo, querendo ser amada. Então, com o passar do tempo, o amor é eclipsado por crenças e choques adquiridos, o que faz com que a necessidade de receber amor seja maior do que a necessidade de amar. A pessoa acaba se desconectando do seu núcleo interior e se conecta à superfície, às máscaras - um falso centro é criado a partir da carência. Essa é a causa de grande parte disso que conhecemos como sofrimento.”

“Una de las principales características del ego humano es la necesidad de ser amado exclusivamente. El niño nace amando y, al mismo tiempo, queriendo ser amado. Entonces, con el paso del tiempo, el amor es eclipsado por creencias y shocks adquiridos, que hace que la necesidad de recibir amor sea mayor que la necesidad de amar. La persona termina desconectándose de su núcleo interior y se conecta a la superficie, a las máscaras - un falso centro se crea a partir de la carencia. Esta es la causa de gran parte de eso que conocemos como sufrimiento.”

“One of the main characteristics of the human ego is the need to be exclusively loved. A child is born loving and, at the same time, wanting to be loved. Then, with the passing of time, love is eclipsed by acquired beliefs and shocks, which makes the need to receive love greater than the need to give love. As adults, we wind up disconnected from our core and connected to the superficial layer called masks, which is a false center created out of our neediness. This disconnection is the cause of so much of what we experience as suffering.”

Via Daily Dharma / June 7, 2016: What the World Is Made Of

Something I have come to understand slowly over my lifetime is that nature, earth, the world—whatever you call it—is not simply something I am on but something I am. It is not outside of me: it is me, and I am it. There is no outside.

—Paul Kingsnorth, "The Witness"

Via FB:

Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees [Full Album]

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 06/06/2016

“Estamos trabalhando para ressignificar as nossas vidas e para que todos encontrem e realizem o programa da sua alma. Trabalhamos para que possamos cumprir nossa missão. Porque, ao realizar essa missão, nos sentimos encaixados e ficamos em paz - nós nos realizamos. Então, nós descobrimos que a felicidade é a causa da felicidade, ou seja, ao nos realizarmos, criamos um círculo benigno no qual felicidade gera felicidade.” 

“Estamos trabajando para resignificarnuestras vidas y para que todos encuentren y realicen el programa de su alma. Trabajamos para poder cumplir con nuestra misión. Porque, al realizar esta misión, nos sentimos encajadosy estamos en paz - nos realizamos. Entoncesdescubrimos que la felicidad es la causa de la felicidad, es decir, al realizarnos, creamos un círculo benigno en el cual felicidad genera felicidad.”

“We are working to give new meaning to our lives so that we all may discover and fulfill the program of our souls. We are working so that we can complete our mission. When we are able to accomplish our mission, we feel as if we belong, and we are at peace; we become self-realized. We discover that happiness breeds even more happiness. As we become self-realized, we create a healthy circle in which happiness fosters even more happiness.”