Thursday, October 28, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // Frank Ocean
FRANK OCEAN, born on this date, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, rapper, photographer, and visual artist. He is recognized for his idiosyncratic musical style, introspective and elliptical songwriting, and wide vocal range. Music critics have credited him with revitalizing jazz and funk influenced R&B, as well as advancing the genre through his experimental approach.He is considered a representative artist of alternative R&B.
Ocean began his
musical career as a ghostwriter, prior to joining the hip
hop collective Odd Future in 2010. In 2011, Ocean released his
critically successful debut mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra and subsequently secured a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings. Drawing on electro-funk, pop-soul,
Ocean wrote an open letter, initially intended for the liner notes on Channel Orange, that preemptively addressed speculation about his attraction in the past to another man.
Instead, on July 4, 2012, he published the open letter on his Tumblr
blog recounting unrequited feelings he had for another young man when he
was 19 years old, citing it as his first true love. He
used the blog to thank the man for his influence, and also thanked his
mother and other friends, saying, "I don't know what happens now, and
that's alright. I don't have any secrets I need kept anymore... I feel
like a free man." Numerous celebrities publicly voiced their support for Ocean following his announcement, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
In June 2016, following the Orlando nightclub shooting that killed 49 people, Ocean published an essay expressing his sadness and frustration. He mentioned that his first experience with homophobia and transphobia was with his father when he was six years old, and related how many people pass on their hateful ideals to the next generation and send thousands of people down suicidal paths. In 2017, Ocean's father subsequently sued him for defamation and requested $14.5 million. In October 2017, after a hearing that saw Ocean and both of his parents taking the stand, the presiding judge ruled in favor of Ocean, stating that his father had not provided sufficient evidence of defamation.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Wisdom Is Right Here
Wisdom is not somewhere else. It’s not in someone else. It’s right here in our own bottomless heart.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 27, 2021 💌
See spiritual practice as one of relinquishing definitions of one’s self 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.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Skillful Anger
Anger
can be a powerful and necessary force for change. But to use it
skillfully, we need methods to transform it. This requires us to be
centered and to create the change within ourselves that will lead to
wise action in the world.
Monday, October 25, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Genuine Compassion
Genuine
compassion is uncomfortable. It’s difficult. It’s maybe even a little
bit scary. But this is why it is so important, and why it has the
potential to be so powerful.
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Shared during Gay Buddhist Fellowship today
Clearing – Martha Postlewaite
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worth of rescue.
Via Tricycle \\ What Do You Believe Now?
What Do You Believe Now?
Directed by Sarah Feinbloom
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Via Daily Dharma: Keep Faith
Faith
is a necessary element of the spiritual path. Faith, practice, and
study are the essential building blocks for the development of a fully
realized life.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - October 24, 2021 💌
My own strategy is to keep cultivating the witness, that part of me that notices how I’m doing it — to cultivate the quiet place in me that watches the process of needing approval, of the smile on the face, of the false humility, of all the horrible creepy little psychological things that are just my humanity. And watching them occur again and again and again.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Via Tricycle \\ Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
By Tricycle
By Tricycle
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Via Daily Dharma: Taking Teachings to Heart
Even the shortest teaching—maybe just a phrase—once it’s written on your heart, will spring up to offer help when you need it.
Via Be Here Now Network / Robert Svoboda
On this special episode of Living with Reality, Dr. Robert Svoboda shares advice to students of Ayurveda based on his 40 years of wisdom and experience.
Learn more about Ayurveda at Dr. Svoboda’s brand new website, which includes courses such as the Foundations of Ayurveda.
Advice to Students of Ayurveda
Drawing on his 40 years of wisdom and experience, Dr. Svoboda offers some advice for students of Ayurveda. He talks about taking on the attitude of always being a student of Ayurveda, the difference between modern knowledge and ancient knowledge, and the importance of integrating one’s own experience into the Ayurvedic energy of healing.
“The way of modern knowledge is to accumulate various facts and pray that somehow they will cohere together in one’s conscious mind, so that they can be employed when required. This is a process of accumulation. Ayurveda is, in many ways, the opposite.” – Dr. Robert Svoboda
Learn about Dr. Robert Svoboda’s journey to finding Ayurveda on Living with Reality Ep. 21
make the jump here to see the full post and more
Friday, October 22, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: You Create Your World
The
present moment is not defined solely by letting go of past and future,
nor by accepting and appreciating what arises right now, but by choosing
in this very moment how we make sense of the world.
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