Saturday, March 6, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // GLENN GREENWALD
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GLENN GREENWALD is an American lawyer, journalist and author born on this date. He was a columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013. He was a columnist for Salon.com from 2007 to 2012, and an occasional contributor to The Guardian. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator.
At Salon he contributed as a columnist and blogger, focusing on political and legal topics. He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Conservative, The National Interest and In These Times. In 2014 he became, along with Laura Poitrasand and Jeremy Scahill, one of the founding editors of The Intercept.
Greenwald was named by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013" and The Advocate named him as one of the "50 Most Influential LGBT Persons in 2014".
Four of the five books he has written have been on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Greenwald is a frequent speaker on college campuses, including Harvard Law, Yale Law, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, UCLA School of Law and the University of Wisconsin. He frequently appears on various radio and television programs.
In June 2013 Greenwald became widely known after The Guardian published the first of a series of reports detailing United States and British global surveillance programs, based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. The series on which Greenwald worked, along with others, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
His reporting on the National Security Agency (NSA) won numerous other awards around the world, including top investigative journalism prizes from the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting, the 2013 Online Journalism Awards, the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting in Brazil for his articles in O Globo on NSA mass surveillance of Brazilians (becoming the first foreigner to win the award), the 2013 Libertad de Expresion Internacional award from Argentinian magazine Perfil, and the 2013 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Greenwald lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the hometown of his partner, David Michael Miranda. Greenwald has said his residence in Brazil was the result of an American law, the Defense of Marriage Act, barring federal recognition of same-sex marriages, which prevented his partner from receiving a visa to reside in the United States with him.
Via The Upworthiest
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In a beautiful act of defiance, BYU's LGBT students lit up 'Y Mountain' in rainbow colors
The dark mountains that overlook Provo, Utah were illuminated by a
beautiful rainbow-colored "Y" on Thursday night just before 8 pm. The
380-foot-tall "Y" overlooks the campus of Brigham Young University, a
private college owned by the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), commonly known as Mormons.
The display was planned by a group of around 40 LGBT students to mark
the one-year anniversary of the university sending out a letter
clarifying its stance on homosexual behavior.
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Via Daily Dharma: Growth Takes Time
It’s OK if the practice doesn’t work in exactly the way you expect. Sometimes the fruit comes later.
—Interview with Brother Fulfillment by Matt Gesicki, “The Sangha Without Thich Nhat Hanh”
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Friday, March 5, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Maintain Good Intentions
Whether
we receive praise or criticism is of no account. The only important
thing is that we have a pure motivation, and let the law of cause and
effect be our witness.
—H. H. the Dalai Lama, “Bad Reputation”
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Release Your Tension
Tension,
restlessness, and exhaustion are created by endless attempts to be and
do things in the so-called outside world. Our biology has no interest in
holding onto these states and, given the chance, knows how to
intelligently release them.
—Chris McKenna, “How to Create a Mini-Retreat at Home”
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Restoring Wisdom
Suffering
is a given in any form of existence where confusion and ignorance are
present. When confusion and ignorance have been definitively eliminated,
and goodness, caring, and wisdom have entirely taken their place, that
is true happiness.
—Pamela Gayle White, “A Slow True Path”
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Via Feliz Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - March 3, 2021 💌
- Ram Dass -
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Training Ourselves to Become Better Inbox
After
taking the vows and observing ourselves more carefully, we find there’s
hardly any action that doesn’t hurt someone or cause some kind of harm.
Because of that awareness, we’re able to train ourselves to become
better.
—Khandro Rinpoche, “Complete Abandon”
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