Via JoeMyGod // Brazil’s Bolsonaro: “Stop Being Fags” About COVID

Brazil’s Bolsonaro: “Stop Being Fags” About COVID

Agence France-Presse reports:

President Jair Bolsonaro drew criticism Tuesday for telling Brazilians not to deal with Covid-19 like “a country of fags,” the far-right leader’s latest controversial outburst on the pandemic.

Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the virus even as it has killed 163,000 people in Brazil,  made the comment during a meandering speech at the presidential palace in which he also appeared to threaten US President-elect Joe Biden.

“All anyone talks about these days is the pandemic. We need to stop that,” said Bolsonaro during the speech, which was ostensibly on tourism. “I regret the deaths. I really do. But we’re all going to die someday. There’s no use fleeing reality. We have to stop being a country of fags. We have to face up to it and fight. I hate this faggot stuff.”

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro answers @JoeBiden’s threat of economics sanctions if Brazil doesn’t stop deforestation in amazon rainforest:

“Diplomacy isn’t enough. When the saliva (dialogue) is over, you must have gunpowder” pic.twitter.com/Qcqf4DPPLs

— Samuel Pancher (@SamPancher) November 10, 2020

During a speech, President Jair Bolsonaro hit out at U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden’s comments about deforestation in the Amazon, saying that “when the saliva runs out, there must be gunpowder.”pic.twitter.com/F70QbGALO6

— The Brazilian Report (@BrazilianReport) November 10, 2020

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 11, 2020 💌

 

 

If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make significant gains, allowing you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature. 

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Feeling in Healthier Directions

 We need to learn ways of expressing the pure energy of our feelings—anger and hate feelings especially—in a healthier direction that’s beneficial to the world.

—Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston by Trevor Carolan, “Helping Veterans Turn War into Art”

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Via Daily Dharma: Develop a Balance

 Just as meditation requires ... determination to carry it out, likewise it requires a sense of balance to determine when to push ourselves harder and when to step back and relax where we are.

—Lama Dudjom Dorjee, “Heartfelt Advice”

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Via Daily Dharma: Recognizing Our Dependence

 There is no self-grounding inner core of the individual. Our lives are entirely dependent processes.

—William S. Cobb, “The Game of Go”

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Via Tricycle // The Third Harmony

The Third Harmony
Directed by Michael Nagler

Nonviolent resistance is more effective—and now more frequently applied—than violent resistance. The Third Harmony takes a look at the peaceful path to humanity’s transformation in the 21st century.

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Via Daily Dharma: Guard Your Mind’s Door

 Mindfulness is said to protect the mind from the intrusion of unwanted elements—whether they be from the senses or from thoughts—like a guard at the door.

—Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr., “Which Mindfulness?”

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Mushim Patricia Ikeda Responds to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

 

Today, November 6, 2020, the United States, my home, is a nation divided against itself, with all sides striving to win. This is the karma of white supremacy and colonization manifesting in the midst of a global pandemic and climate crisis. I live in California, a state that is, literally, on fire.

The Buddha said this:

Winning gives birth to hostility.
Losing, one lies down in pain.
The calmed lie down with ease,
having set
winning & losing
aside.

“Winning gives birth to hostility.” Another translator more colloquially put it this way: “The winner sows hatred because the loser suffers.”

I believe in strategic political action and liberatory movement-building. I have cast my vote. And these are my Bodhisattva vows as I move with you into the coming months and years: What actions can I take to lessen hostility and extreme reactivity, and to encourage civil discourse and respectful democratic process?

May we all complete the great journey of awakening together.

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 8, 2020 💌

 

 

You took birth here because you had certain work to do. This is your curriculum. It's not an error. Where you are now with all your neuroses and your problems, you're sitting in just the right place. 

- Ram Dass -

Via Mushim Patricia Ikeda EBMC Sangha

 

From #EBMCOakland teacher Sean Feit-Oakes: 

 

Like the Gospels, the teachings of the Buddha turn on a luminous moral vision: that dedicating our lives to wise action and reducing harm in the world is the path to liberation. Greed, which destroys beings in its insatiable hunger, is to be transformed into generosity. Hatred, that most bitter drink, abandoned for the cool water of kindness. And delusion, the failure to see how our actions create the world, polished into clarity.

 

The most inspiring moments this week have been the moral ones. Authorities on both sides committing to fairness and transparency instead of lies and deception. Regular people demanding that the process unfold in a nonviolent, ordered way, and celebrating the fundamental virtues of democracy, as flawed as ours may be. This is the real victory. 

 

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Via Tricycle // Buddhism for Beginners: The Many Buddhist Traditions

Buddhism for Beginners: The Many Buddhist Traditions

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How did Buddhism evolve when it first made its way from India to East Asia? How do the traditions differ in their understanding of who the Buddha was? Discover the many Buddhist traditions with our newly expanded Buddhism for Beginners learning platform.

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Via Daily Dharma: Transforming Through Spiritual Practice

 Through spiritual practice, you can come to see yourself and your life clearly. And when you can see clearly, you can transform any situation.

—Interview with Tina Turner by Clark Strand, “Absolutely, Indestructibly Happy”

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7º Festival Cinema e Transcendência: 7 a 27 de novembro

 

 7º Festival Cinema e Transcendência: 7 a 27 de novembro Venha participar do único festival no Brasil que se dedica à experiência de transformação pessoal a partir do cinema. Nesta edição a programação será 100% on-line, apresentando 12 longas-metragens que tocam nosso mundo interior em sessões diárias (terça a domingo), às 21h. O festival ainda apresentará as atividades extras: bate-papo online com o neurocientista Sidarta Ribeiro (12/11, 20h) e com a Monja Coen (14/11, 20h); uma prática de meditação sonora, a Medittasom (15/11, 18h30); e o show Expresso do Oriente, com sitar e alaúde turco, transmitido diretamente do teatro do CCBB Brasília, ao vivo, na abertura do Festival (7/11, 20h). Haverá ainda uma homenagem ao Dia da Consciência Negra, no final de semana de 20 a 22/11, com filmes e debates. Acesse toda a programação gratuitamente festivalcinemaetranscendencia.com

Via Daily Dharma: The Foundation of Generosity

 Gratitude, the simple and profound feeling of being thankful, is the foundation of all generosity.

—Sallie Tisdale, “As If There Is Nothing to Lose”

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Via FB // Frodo & Sam

 Found this in someone´s comments today:

“Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.

 

Sam:

I know.

It’s all wrong.

By rights we shouldn’t even be here.

But we are.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo,

The ones that really mattered.

Full of darkness and danger they were,

and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end.

Because how could the end be happy?

How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.

Even darkness must pass.

A new day will come.

And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.

Those were the stories that stayed with you.

That meant something.

Even if you were too small to understand why.

But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand.

I know now.

Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t.

Because they were holding on to something.

 

Frodo:

What are we holding on to, Sam?

 

Sam:

That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, And it’s worth fighting for.”