Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 5, 2021 💌

 

We're all just walking each other home.⁣

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Via Equality California // Open letter to Tucker Carlson

 Joking about a hate crime and glorifying the murderer — now that’s a new low… even for him.

Please take a minute to read our important open letter to Tucker Carlson and then add your name to sign on →

Equality California’s Open Letter to Tucker Carlson Tucker Carlson — We can’t believe we need to even say this, but here we go: We, the undersigned, fully condemn your miserable and desperate attempt to belittle our community, our dignity and our lives. We’ve seen your type before; we know exactly how this goes. From Dan White to Anita Bryant to Jerry Fallwell, shameful extremists just like yourself have tried desperately to hold our movement back. But know this: We’ve proven time and time again that your hate is simply no match for us. Our community is bold and resilient. Together with our allies, we will continue to march ahead — with pride — until we achieve full, lived equality for everyone. In the 40+ years since Harvey Milk’s murder, his legacy has grown beyond his wildest dreams. We’ve elected scores of openly LGBTQ+ leaders at the local, state and federal level, passed lifesaving pro-equality legislation and so much more. And we refuse to back down. So to make a joke about the murder of one of us? You should be ashamed of your actions. Signed, ADD YOUR NAME »

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Via Daily Dharma: Have Compassion for Yourself

 In order to wake up to suffering, we need to clearly see and embrace all the ways that we avoid dealing with our internal pain. We can heal, but only after we have the courage to stay with this pain and have compassion for ourselves.

—Ronya Fakhoury Banks, “How Buddhism Helped Me Embrace My Palestinian Heritage”

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Healing America’s Racial Karma with Larry Ward and Alka Arora

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Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Your Distractions

 A big part of Buddhist practice is introspection: studying yourself and learning about how you react to the world. Understanding your own limitations and your own patterns of distraction is important.

—Interview with Dan Zigmond by Karen Jensen, “Practicing at the Office”

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Via Daily Dharma: Planting Seeds of Compassion

If we are aware in a compassionate, focused way, we plant seeds of compassionate focused awareness that lets things go and lets things be. Joyful feelings are free to arise without creating clinging, and painful states can arise without expressing themselves in harmful ways. 

—Ben Connelly, “Cleaning Out the Storehouse”

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Threading the Needle
By James Shaheen

Over the past 30 years, Tricycle has engaged Buddhist traditionalists and innovators alike in an evolving dialogue—and never before has the conversation been so dynamic and diverse.

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Via Daily Dharma: Becoming a Place of Rest

 May I become an island for those seeking dry land
A lamp for those needing light,
A place of rest for those who desire one,
And a servant for those needing service.

—Shantideva, “May I Become an Island”

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Dr. Benjamin Spock and a child who will, no doubt, Live Long and Prosper

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The go-to pediatrician BENJAMIN SPOCK was born (d: 1998). Before there was Vulcan "Spock" there was Dr. Spock. His book, Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do."

Spock was an early advocate for the rights of LGBT people. He was also the People's Party candidate in the 1972 United States presidential election on a platform which called for free medical care, the repeal of "victimless crime" laws, including the legalization of abortion, homosexuality, and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries. He died in 1998.

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 2, 2021 💌

See your spiritual practice as one of relinquishing definitions of yourself in order to come into the present.

See the spiritual journey as one of coming into the space of love. Look at the people you don’t love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.⁣

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