The Long Road To Pride

Via Daily Dharma: All-Pervasive Awakening

[Meditation] has nothing to do with training in some sort of technical skill or gaining crucial esoteric knowledge that cannot be attained any other way. Nor has it anything to do with transcending the human condition. It is about bringing forth positive qualities in us that will see us living meaningful and dignified human lives.

—Winton Higgins, “Treading the Path with Care”

Via Daily Dharma: Staying Anchored in the Wind

Equanimity is said to be an anchor. It protects you against the “worldly winds”—pleasure and pain, praise and blame, gain and loss, and fame and disrepute—by keeping you anchored so you’re not tossed about by those winds.

—Daisy Hernández, “The Noble Abode of Equanimity”

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - June 30, 2019 💌

One of the big traps we have in the West is our intelligence, because we want to know that we know. Freedom allows you to be wise, but you cannot know wisdom. You must be wisdom.
When my guru wanted to put me down, he called me ‘clever.’ When he wanted to reward me, he would call me ‘simple.’
The intellect is a beautiful servant, but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity. 

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Radiating Love and Acceptance

As we transform our own experience and relationship to our realities, we cannot help but affect those around us in radiating circles into the larger culture. These moments of freedom and transformation begin to change and elevate the consciousness and awareness of the world.

—Interview with Larry Yang, “Meditation Teacher Larry Yang Named Grand Marshal in S.F. Pride”

Via Lions Roar: Buddhism’s Call to Action

Buddhism’s Call to Action

Jack Kornfield on the importance of contributing to activism with Buddhist practice and wisdom.

How can you do this service work in the spirit of practice? As dharma practitioners, the first task is to make your own heart a zone of peace. Instead of becoming entangled in the pain or cynicism that exists externally, you need to face your own fear, your own sufferings, and transform them into compassion. Only then can you offer genuine help to the outside world.   Make the jump here to read the full article and more

Via Daily Dharma: The True Journey

All pilgrimages are internal.

—Gail Gutradt, “A Pilgrimage Among Friends”

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Via Daily Dharma: Lose Your Self

Anger is considered a poison when it’s self-motivated and self-centered. But take that attachment to the self out of anger and the same emotion becomes the fierce energy of determination, which is a very positive force … Drop the self-orientation from ignorance, and it becomes a state of unknowing that allows new things to rise.

—Roshi Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields, “Instructions to the Cook”

A Look At The Activism That Came Before Stonewall And The Movement That Came Out Of It

Via Daily Dharma: What Exists?

When we meditate, we relate to that unsettling, ineffable commodity: the present. We train in letting go of thoughts and feelings as they arise, and settle back into the present: that gap between two concepts—past and future—that don’t actually exist.

—Pamela Gayle White, “The Pursuit of Happiness”

Via Daily Dharma: On Finding Each Other

We humans have a way of touching each other’s lives deeply even despite ourselves. In finding our way to each other, we find what is, after all, already there, waiting to be found, wanting to be found.

—Andrew Cooper, “Life’s Hidden Support”

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - June 26, 2019 💌

Most of the beings that we call gurus are really teachers. The likelihood of finding somebody that’s a cooked goose is reasonably slim. Since they are not cooked geese, they have their own karma, they have their own stuff. So they become somebody through whom a teaching comes, but them themselves are not truth… If there is a purity in your heart in the way you see truth, you separate this purity of their message from the stuff of their karma. You take the truth and you work with it.

- Ram Dass -

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LEGO is hosting the world’s smallest Pride parade to celebrate Stonewall’s 50th anniversary This may be the only Pride event where you have to be accompanied by a child to visit.

There’s one event this June that may win the award for smallest Pride parade of the year. 

But don’t let its size fool you: the parade at the LEGOLAND Discovery Center in Westchester, New York, is more than its size.

Taking place in MINILAND, the amusement park’s recreation of parts of New York City, the parade features two floats with “Pride” and “Love Is Love” themes, an oversized “Stonewall 50” billboard, and a great number of bedazzled mini people dancing in a LEGO recreation of Times Square.

The miniature event celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion and the birth of LGBTQ Pride.

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Via Daily Dharma: Breaking from the Dream

We get quiet for a moment in meditation. We sink down to a relaxedness, a calmness, abruptly free from all the crazy dreams we confuse with reality. And in that instant, by mistake maybe, or because we aren’t thinking to stop it from happening—we experience, in a flash, things as they really are.

—William R. Stimson, “My Brief Career Composing Spanish Music”