Saturday, May 8, 2021

Matthew 23: 13 English Standard Version

Matthew 23: 13   English Standard Version

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! 
For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. 
For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in."

Via Daily Dharma: Embracing Stress

 If you are stressed out, then it is part of your meditation to become fully aware of being stressed out. Don’t make a big effort to push it aside, don’t try to be some other way... The minute you embrace that fact, you will actually become less stressed and more awake. 

—Lewis Richmond, “To Be Real”

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A Grand Evening Out (virtually!)

 


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Friday, May 7, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Committing to Practice

We practice to be liberated. We practice because it seems impossible; we practice to reclaim that sense of possibility.

—Christina Feldman, “Long Journey to a Bow”

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Via NBC // Queer Love in Color

 


‘Queer Love in Color’: Photo book celebrates diverse LGBTQ relationships

The journalist Jamal Jordan documents the joys and romances queer couples of color around the world share — but don’t often see represented.
 
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Thursday, May 6, 2021

Via FB // Chasten Buttigieg

 "I gained twenty pounds during COVID and felt awful about it. Then a good friend told me ‘maybe just dress the body you have and stop worrying about it. So I finally went and bought new pants. I’m very grateful for having such good friends… and also for these bigger pants. This past year has put us all through a heck of a lot. If you, like a lot of us, gained some weight while trying to survive a deadly global pandemic, consider me officially on your ‘wgaf?’ team.”

—Activist Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, confessing to his own weight gain during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The “wgaf” reference is an abbreviation for “Who gives a f*ck.”

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Via NY Times // Repairing Generations of Trauma, One Lotus Flower at a Time

 

Repairing Generations of Trauma, One Lotus Flower at a Time

The lotus flower, blooming out of muddy waters, has long been a symbol of rising above suffering. In the wake of Anti-Asian attacks, spiritual leaders hope it can help heal the trauma of racial violence in the U.S.

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Via Tricycle // The Land of Many Dharmas

 


The Land of Many Dharmas
By Rev. Dr. Kenneth Tanaka
For the first time in Buddhism’s history, all major Buddhist denominations in the world today coexist in one country: The United States. Rev. Dr. Kenneth Tanaka surveys the landscape of the new Buddhist melting pot.
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Via Daily Dharma: Cultivating Gratitude

The Buddha encouraged us to think of the good things done for us by our parents, by our teachers, friends, whomever; and to do this intentionally, to cultivate it, rather than just letting it happen accidentally.

—Ajahn Sumedho, “The Gift of Gratitude”

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