Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Via INDY 100 // Homophobic people have a higher chance of being gay, according to science

 

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Today marks 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.

On 27 July 1967 the Sexual Offences Act was changed and legalised sex in private between two men.

Despite this being a huge milestone for the LGBT community we still have an enormous way to go when it comes to true equality. 

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 30, 2020 💌

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

 - Ram Dass -

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Via Tricycle // Shin Buddhism: A Path of Gratitude

 Shin Buddhism: A Path of Gratitude
By Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi

When we shift our mind from the desire for spiritual progress to an appreciation of the gifts we’ve already received, our practice is transformed. 

Via Daily Dharma: Moving Beyond a Habitual Mind

 Any spiritual path should provide us with an understanding that gradually leads us beyond habitual, reactive mind so that we can engage in our life with intelligence and openness.

—Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, “Open Stillness”

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Tina Turner - Lotus Sutra / Purity of Mind (2H Meditation)

Namaste: Devi Prayer, Hindu, Spiritual music, gentle, calming, peaceful ...

Craig Pruess & Ananda Vdovic - Devi Prayer (40 Min Meditation)

Devi Prayer - Hymn to the Divine Mother

Via Daily Dharma: The Gifts of Being Present

Presence has no measurable product except positive feelings, feelings of support, intimacy, and happiness. When we stop being busy and productive and switch to just being still and aware, we ourselves will also feel support, intimacy, and happiness, even if no one else is around.

—Jan Chozen Bays, “The Gift of Waiting”

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We are all just walking each other Home

- Ram Dass -

Monday, September 28, 2020

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Still arriving ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Still arriving ~ Thich Nhat Hanh https://justdharma.com/s/b2s1o  

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.  – Thich Nhat Hanh  from the book "Being Peace" 

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Sunday, September 27, 2020

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 27, 2020 💌

 


Slowly over the years I’ve noticed that when I’m working with the dying or working on a political action or something, I feel absolutely harmonious with my being - like this is just what I should be doing. And it began to dawn on me: feed people, serve people, be like Gandhi.

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Let Go of Hate

 Who’s being affected by your hatred? The first person is you.

—Interview with Ani Choying Drolma by Pamela Gayle White, “Topping the Charts for Freedom”

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Sacred in the Everyday - Ram Dass Full Lecture

I Won't Vote Trump! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Via Lion's Roar // Yes, We Can Have Hope

 

Yes, We Can Have Hope
Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on the idea of “wise hope” and why we should open ourselves to it.
As Buddhists, we share a common aspiration to awaken from suffering; for many of us, this aspiration is not a “small self” improvement program. The bodhisattva vows at the heart of the Mahayana tradition are, if nothing else, a powerful expression of radical and wise hope—an unconditional hope that is free of desire.
 

Via White Crane Institute // This Day in Gay History: T.S. ELIOT

 This Day in Gay History

September 26

Born
T.S. Eliot
1888 -

T.S. ELIOT, poet, dramatist and literary critic, born in St. Louis MO (d: 1965) He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock",  The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday", and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39. When he was living in Paris before WWI, he met a French medical student named Jean Verdenal in the Luxembourg Gardens. Werdenal was waving a branch of lilac at the time. Verdenal died in the Dardanelles in 1915. Eliot dedicated Prufrock to him, adding a epigraph from Dante’s Purgatory: “Now can you understand the quantity of love that warms me to you, so that I forget out vanity, and treat the shadows like the real thing.”

This is all we know about his friendship with the young medical student, and all we are likely to know. Other considerations: Eliot had a horror of the female body, he feared it, and thought it “smelled.” He had an abhorrence of sex in general, though as a boy, he masturbated guiltily and wrote a magnificently sensuous poem about it…an excerpt here:

Then he knew that he had been a fish

With slippery white belly held tight in his own fingers

Writhing in his own clutch, his ancient beauty

Caught fast in the pink rips of his new beauty.

Eliot obsessed with the thought that every man wanted to kill a woman, and without irony, extended his fantasy to all men. His first marriage was miserable in that his wife laughed in his face at the very idea of sleeping with him. These are the general facts, and various interpretations are offered by various biographers. Thus far, interpretations have run in two obvious directions. Of course he was completely asexual. Of course he was a latent homosexual. Either seems unfair in some way; he was simply T.S. Eliot. Perhaps the first queer?

Via Daily Dharma: Appreciating Ordinary

 Appreciating the many ordinary encounters we have leads to a broader and deeper experience of life.

—Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi, “Shin Buddhism: A Path of Gratitude”

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