Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Via FB / Sofo Archon
“Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not indulge in works of the half talented
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half a drink will not quench your thirst
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results
Your other half is not the one you love
It is you in another time yet in the same space
It is you when you are not
Half a life is a life you didn't live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know
To reach and not arrive
Work and not work
Attend only to be absent
What makes you a stranger to them closest to you
and they strangers to you
The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life”
— Khalil Gibran
Via White Crane Institute // Noteworthy
2020 -
The Supreme Court ruled that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, a resounding victory for LGBT rights from a conservative court. The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.
The cases were the court’s first on LGBT rights since Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement and replacement by Kavanaugh. Kennedy was a voice for gay rights and the author of the landmark ruling in 2015 that made same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States. Kavanaugh generally is regarded as more conservative.
The Trump administration had changed course from the Obama administration, which supported LGBT workers in their discrimination claims under Title VII. During the Obama years, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had changed its longstanding interpretation of civil rights law to include discrimination against LGBT people. The law prohibits discrimination because of sex, but had no specific protection for sexual orientation or gender identity.
In recent years, some lower courts have held that discrimination against LGBT people is a subset of sex discrimination, and thus prohibited by the federal law. Efforts by Congress to change the law had failed.
The Supreme Court cases involved two gay men and a transgender woman who sued for employment discrimination after they lost their jobs.
Via Daily Dharma: Awakening to Human Nature
We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.
—Interview with John Welwood by Tina Fossella, “Human Nature, Buddha Nature”
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Monday, June 14, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Experiencing Mind Nature
Mind
nature does not need to be nourished. It is simply there, like space.
What we are actually nourishing is our experience of it.
—Ken McLeod, “Let Mind Nature Be Your Guru through Mystical Devotion”
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Via Daily Dharma: Determining Not-Self
We needn’t worry about what the self is—that is a question to be put aside—but work diligently to determine what is not self.
Saturday, June 12, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Knowing Your Buddhanature
Our buddha nature is never separate from our minds for even a single instant. We are not apart from it [even if] we do not know it.
—Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, “Taking Your Future Into Your Own Hands”
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Via Tricycle // Kyoto Temple Plans Outer Space Location
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Via Tricycle // Celebrating Buddhism’s Inclusivity
Celebrating Buddhism’s Inclusivity
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
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Via Daily Dharma: Cultivating Mindful Listening
Deep
listening is a practice of deep connection. Cultivating the ability to
listen in relationship takes a healthy dose of self-awareness. As in the
practice of mindfulness of sound, you are training to remain peaceably
with whatever you hear or feel in the moment.
Friday, June 11, 2021
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Knowing Your Boundaries
Preserving
yourself and knowing your boundaries is not the same thing as
exclusively seeking your own happiness. It’s about the healing process
of learning to skillfully discern what will and will not serve all
beings, yourself included.
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Why Are We Unhappy?
We
all seek happiness, but I believe that we are already surrounded by
happiness. The teachings of the Buddha have taught me that everything is
neutral and perfect in its own way.
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