Via Daily Dharma: The Benefits of Gratitude

It’s very difficult to be caught up in lots of distracting thoughts when there is a strong sense of appreciation in your life.

—Andy Puddicombe, “10 Tips for Living More Mindfully”

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Via NPR // Juneteenth

The Emancipation Proclamation at the National Archives in Washington, January 16, 2006.

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Juneteenth is getting unusually widespread attention this year, as Americans protest police brutality and racism.
But some Americans have, for years, celebrated it as the day that marks our ancestors' emancipation.

June 19, 1865 was the day U.S. Army troops landed in Galveston, Texas. It was the aftermath of the Civil War. The troops informed some of the last enslaved Americans that they were forever free. They enforced President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect on January 1, 1863.
The proclamation declared freedom for the slaves of rebels in the South. It came after almost two years of war, and it took more years of war to enforce it. The order did not free every slave, and the document specified places it did not apply.
Frederick Douglass, the activist who'd been enslaved himself, said Lincoln was slow, even "slothful" in making this "obvious" move. But Douglass celebrated that "the dictation of humanity and justice have at last prevailed."

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Infinite Potential Trailer: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm

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Via Tricycle // Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm

A message from the Fetzer Memorial Trust: 
In Honor of His Holiness’s 85th Birthday,
Join Us For a Special Event:
An exclusive screening of the film Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm

His Holiness the Dalai Lama referred to him as his "science guru." Albert Einstein called him his "spiritual son." So why is it that so few of us are familiar with the groundbreaking work of maverick physicist David Bohm? Bohm's fascinating journey and profound discoveries about the fundamental interconnectedness of the universe are explored in the new film Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm. In honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th birthday, The Fetzer Memorial Trust will present a special screening of the film. Online Screening: Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm Date: July 5, 2020 Time: 5:30 PT (6AM July 6 in India) Free Ticket: Please click here The event will include a panel discussion with Tibet House founder Robert Thurman, longtime English translator of His Holiness's writings, Thupten Jinpa, and Nicky Vreeland, the first Westerner to be ordained by the Dalai Lama as an Abbott. The Q&A will be moderated by Sandra de Castro Buffington, Founder of StoryAction and UCLA’s Global Media Center for Social Impact. See the trailer and register for your free ticket here. Bohm's lifelong friendship with Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti inspired him to introduce the idea of Consciousness into quantum theory, which was controversial, to say the least, and caused the scientific orthodoxy to dismiss his radical thinking. But Bohm's idea of the Quantum Potential, a field underlying reality, is now being reexamined in studies at University College London and the University of Toronto. If Bohm’s theory of Quantum Potential is proven to be true, it could have radical implications of how we live life on this planet and coexist with one another.

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Via Querty // Gay dads triumph over Trump administration in groundbreaking case

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Via Nondual Cafe

It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

Ramakrishna

Thich Nhat Han

 

In my calligraphy, there is ink, tea, breathing, mindfulness, and concentration. This is meditation. This is not working. Suppose I write ‘breathe’; I am breathing at the same time. To be alive is a miracle and when you breathe in mindfully, you touch the miracle of being alive.

 

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Via Common Dreams //

Time to 'Reinvest in People' and 'Cut Weapons of War': Barbara Lee Unveils Plan to Cut Up to $350 Billion From Pentagon

by Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Redundant nuclear weapons, off-books spending accounts, and endless wars in the Middle East don't keep us safe."

Via Daily Dharma: How to Experience Emptiness

The experience of emptiness is not found outside of the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

—Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche,“The Theater of Reflection”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 17, 2020 💌

I would like to play the part of someone who has worked on my consciousness sufficiently so that if things get tough, in terms of the environment, issues with social structures, oppression, protecting minority groups, whatever the thing is – I would like to be able to be in the scene without getting caught in my own reactivity to it, without getting so caught in my own fear that I become part of the problem instead of part of the solution.

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Via Daily Dharma: Be Open to Just This Moment

“Just this moment” is the only moment, and being open to it is the only true choice we ever really have.

—Diane Eshin Rizzetto,“In Brief”

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Via Daily Dharma: The Purpose of Our Human Life

The purpose of our human life is huge—to grow larger hearts and open minds—and we celebrate that we can do this in this moment. 

—Judith Simmer-Brown,“Five Practices to Change Your Mind”

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Via NYTimes // Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules

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Via BBC // US Supreme Court backs protection for LGBT workers

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The Supreme Court ruled that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, known as Title VII, protects the LGBTQ+ community from workplace discrimination. The court made the decision by a 6-3 vote.

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 14, 2020 💌

Grace helps an individual see their own suffering and then use it to their advantage. It is not something that can be a rationalization for allowing another human being to suffer. And you have to listen to the level at which another person is suffering. When somebody is hungry, you give them food. As my guru said, "God comes to the hungry person in the form of food." You give them food and then when they’ve had their belly filled then they may be interested in questions about God.

Even though you know from, say, Buddhist training, or whatever spiritual training you have had, that the root cause of suffering is ignorance, to give somebody a Dharma lecture when they are hungry is just an inappropriate methodology in terms of ending suffering...

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