Freedom from Illusion
By Pema Düddul
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Saturday, November 6, 2021
Via Tricycle // Freedom from Illusion
Freedom from Illusion
By Pema Düddul
Via Tricycle // When America Met Thich Nhat Hanh
When America Met Thich Nhat Hanh
By Jim Forest
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Via Daily Dharma: Rising From Failure
Failures are not just inevitable, but are a necessary part of the process. A good mother is not one whose baby never cries, but one who knows how to respond and soothe her crying baby.
Friday, November 5, 2021
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Plant the Right Seeds
The
effects of our actions extend through space and time like ripples on a
pond, influencing not only our future selves but also our surroundings.
If we wish to be a certain kind of person and live in a certain kind of
world, we need to be heedful about the seeds we cultivate.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 3, 2021 💌
There are many levels at which you relieve suffering; you relieve
suffering at one level by giving food. You relieve suffering at another
level by giving the food in such a way that is draws people out of the
pain of their own separateness. This involves the idea of respect for
the people you’re serving, and dignity and really seeing.
You must be driven to work on yourself all of the time, so that your
acts of caring for other human beings are not toxic. If you want to help
other people, I would say, just look around, check out the bulletin
board at your local laundromat. It doesn’t matter where you plug into
the system; the issue is the quality of the behavior when you plug into
the system.
It’s not just doing the act, it’s the combination of doing the act with
the exercise of using the act to see the ways in which you’re ripping
off the act for your own psycho-dynamic needs. Without putting yourself
down for it, just appreciating the humanity of it, but also getting to
the next level of it, where you’re just doing it because you’re a part
of the dance, and you’re on the side of the angels. Gandhi said, “When
you surrender completely into God, you find yourself in the service of
all that exists.”
- Ram Dass -
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Finding “You,” Now
Any
story you have about yourself is not the same as the unfolding reality
of what you are: the ongoing life of your senses, the tenderness of your
heart, the consciousness that right now is seeing or hearing these
words.
Via Tricycle \\ Dhamma Wheel
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Via L.A. Times \\ Meet America’s First Drag Queen for President
Meet America’s First Drag Queen for President
‘The Beauty President’ is a short documentary about 1992 U.S. presidential candidate Terence Alan Smith, from executive producer Lena Waithe and emerging director Whitney Skauge, presented by Breakwater Studios, Hillman Grad Productions, and L.A. Times Studios.
Make the jump here to watch the film and more
Via White Crane Institute \\ JOHN LYON BURNSIDE
1916 -
JOHN LYON BURNSIDE, inventor, gay American activist, born (d: 2008); John, or as he was known in Faerie circles “n’John” for his long-term relationship with Harry Hay – as in “Harry n’John”, was the inventor of the Teleidoscope and the Symmetricon, and was the partner of Mattachine and Radical Faerie founder, Harry Hay for 39 years.
Burnside was sent to an orphanage while still a child because he was caught in sexual play with another little boy. He served briefly in the Navy, and settled in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He married, but had no children. Burnside met Harry in 1962 at ONE Incorporated. They fell in love and became life partners. They formed a group in the early 1960s called the Circle of Loving Companions that promoted gay rights and Gay love.
In 1966 they were major planners of one of the first gay marches, a protest against exclusion of gays in the military, held in Los Angeles. In 1967, they appeared as a couple on the Joe Pyne television show. In the late 1970s, they founded, along with Don Kilhefner, the Radical Faeries. John died of brain cancer in San Francisco, where he had been tended to by members of the Circle of Loving Companions that had taken care of Harry in his final days.
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Monday, November 1, 2021
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - October 31, 2021 💌
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Lift the Weapon of Compassion
Fear
thrives in the absence of mutual understanding and diversity, and it is
a poisonous weapon. But there is an antidote: compassion. Compassion
combats fear.
Via Daily Dharma: Lightening Up
One
of the best ways to overcome a defilement is to be able to laugh at it.
To be able to laugh at your own foibles gives you some distance from
them.
—Interview with Thanissaro Bhikkhu by Matthew Gindin, “(En)lighten Up! Uncovering the Buddha’s Wit”
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