Only
after the ground of self-compassion has been established can the wisdom
born of self-analysis and critical discernment deepen our process of
healing.
—Miles Neale, “How to Heal After Your Teacher Crosses the Line”
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Self Acceptance Comes First
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 7, 2020 💌
What is happening in this country at this moment is that a lot of people
are having an intuitive sense of something else happening. In a way,
the world views that are represented by the extreme nationalism of this
country are being de-juiced very slowly by the intuitive hearts of the
people. That's not just true in this country, it's true in the world.
And television has helped it and travel has helped it and mobility, all
these things have helped.
It's as if there is a kind of consciousness growing that is ahead of the
structures and myths that we are still living out. And we are part of
an edge of that process, just by the nature of why we would gather here
for this reason. How you manifest in your jobs, in your marriages, in
your suffering, in your politics, in your marketplace, in your voting...
all of that is part of the way the individual human hearts start to
transform the process.
- Ram Dass -
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Via Tricycle
Liberating Impermanence
By Kurt Spellmeyer
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Via Daily Dharma: Focus on Joy
Even
though it may seem counterintuitive, when you’re suffering, if you can
focus on another person’s joy, you can share it, and that makes you feel
better.
—Rick Heller, “Sympathetic Joy”
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Monday, October 5, 2020
#ProudBoys
Proud Boys: Far-right group becomes LGBT trend online
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54380656
Twitter users take over Proud Boys hashtag with photos of LGBTQ love
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/proud-boys-twitter-hashtag-photos-lgbtq-love/
LGBT Twitter users tease far-right group by taking over Proud Boys hashtag
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/05/proud-boys-hashtag-lgbt-twitter-users
The Proud Boys were emboldened by Trump’s words. Then, LGBTQ couples reclaimed the group’s hashtag.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/05/proudboys-twitter-lgbtq-takei/
The Proud Boys hashtag has been brilliantly hijacked by the gay community
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/50657/1/the-proud-boys-hashtag-has-been-hijacked-by-the-gay-community
Proud Boys hashtag gets hijacked by LGBT+ community to drown out the racism with queer love
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/04/proud-boys-hashtag-hijacked-lgbt-community-donald-trump-hate-group-queer-love/
Gay men have taken over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtag
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/us/proud-boys-twitter-hashtag-gay-men-trnd/index.html
Proud Boys hashtag reclaimed by gay couples celebrating their relationships
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/519553-proud-boys-hashtag-reclaimed-by-gay-couples-celebrating-their
Gay men take over Proud Boys hashtag on Twitter
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/gay-men-take-over-proud-boys-hashtag-on-twitter/ar-BB19GQoj
Via Daily Dharma: Transforming Others
Ordinary
people just want life to be smooth, without problems. But Buddhist
practitioners have a different attitude. They are ready to endure many
difficulties if they are in the service of transforming others.
—Master Sheng-Yen, “The Wanderer”
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Sunday, October 4, 2020
Via On the Media - WYNC : God Bless
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President Trump has once more tried to cast himself as an ally of the Christian right — this time, by nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This week, On the Media explains how the religious right goes beyond white evangelicals and the persistent allure of persecution narratives in Christianity. Plus, we examine the overlooked religious left. And, we explore how the image of Jesus as a white man was popularized in the 20th century, and why it matters.
1. Andrew Whitehead [@ndrewwhitehead], professor of sociology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, explains how Christian nationalism holds the religious right together. Listen.
2. Candida Moss [@candidamoss], professor of theology and religion at the University of Birmingham in the U.K., on how false claims of persecution date back centuries, to the early Christian church. Listen.
3. Jack Jenkins [@jackmjenkins], national reporter at Religion News Service, explains why the religious left is harder to define, and its influence more difficult to measure, than its right-wing counterpart. Listen.
4. OTM reporter Eloise Blondiau [@eloiseblondiau] examines how "White Jesus" came to America, how the image became ubiquitous, and why it matters. Listen.
Music from this week's show:
Ave Maria — Pascal Jean and Jean Brenders
Amazing Grace — Robert D. Sands, Jr.
I Got a Right to Sing the Blues — Billy Kyle
What’s That Sound? — Michael Andrews
Wade in the Water — Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
For the Creator — Hildegard von Bingen
Walking by Flashlight — Maria Schneider (The Thompson Fields)
Via Daily Dharma: Make Meaning from Chores
If
I view [everyday chores] as tasks to rush through on the way to
something more important, they become a crushing waste of time. But from
the perspective of Buddhist teachings, each of these activities is a
golden moment, an opportunity for full awakening.
—Anne Cushman, “Clearing Clutter”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 4, 2020 💌
One day in India, on my second stay, Maharaji said to me, "You don't have to change anybody; you just have to love them." In relationships, when the other person doesn't fit into your model of how heaven would be, you don't have to play God. You just have to love individual differences and appreciate them the way they are because love is the most powerful medicine.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, October 3, 2020
Via One Arth Sangha // Entering the Bardo
Joanna Macy has previously spoken about “four R’s” of the Deep Adaptation movement: the four core values of resilience, relinquishment, restoration, and reconciliation that can help us find the seeds of new beginnings in the breakdown of industrial growth society. In this article, she continues to document the Great Unraveling, likening it to entering the bardo—the frightening transitional state of consciousness between death and re-birth so vividly portrayed in Tibetan Buddhism. The worsening wildfires, hurricanes, COVID outbreaks, and police violence certainly evoke the intensity and uncertainty of the bardo. But as always, she faces, and encourages us to face, our “cruel social and ecological realities” with courage and an unflinching gaze, while continuing to work towards the Great Turning to a life-sustaining civilization.
Joanna further explored these themes in a talk during Upaya Zen Center’s daylong program in June. Thanks to Upaya’s generosity, we share a video of this talk at the end of this article.
We are in a space without a map. With the likelihood of economic collapse and climate catastrophe looming, it feels like we are on shifting ground, where old habits and old scenarios no longer apply. In Tibetan Buddhism, such a space or gap between known worlds is called a bardo. It is frightening. It is also a place of potential transformation.
As you enter the bardo, there facing you is the Buddha Akshobhya. His element is Water. He is holding a mirror, for his gift is Mirror Wisdom, reflecting everything just as it is. And the teaching of Akshobhya’s mirror is this: Do not look away. Do not avert your gaze. Do not turn aside. This teaching clearly calls for radical attention and total acceptance.
This article was originally published by Emergence Magazine and is republished here with permission.
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