Sunday, November 28, 2021
Festival Cinema e Transcendência
Chegou mais uma edição do Festival Cinema e Transcendência!
Mais
uma vez online para todo o Brasil, exibimos filmes que refletem a busca
da transcendência, através da arte, da cultura, da vida...Nesta edição, estamos lançando vários títulos no Brasil e teremos a participação de diretores e convidados incríveis em nossas Lives!
Dia 01/12 às 20h teremos a ABERTURA do Festival com show musical do grupo GHARANA ELETROACÚSTICA e exibição do filme SAMADHI ROAD.
Acesse www.Nosso Insta:
@cinema.transcendencia
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 28, 2021 💌
When I perform a wedding ceremony, the image I invoke is of a triangle
formed by the two partners and this third force, which is the shared
love that unites and surrounds them both. In the yoga of relationship,
two people come together to find that shared love but continue to dance
as two. In that union, both people are separate and yet not separate.
Their relationship feeds both their unique individuality and their unity
of consciousness.
Love can open the way to surrendering into oneness. It gets
extraordinarily beautiful when there’s no more “me” and “you,” and it
becomes just “us.” Taken to a deeper level, when compassion is fully
developed, you are not looking at others as “them.” You’re listening and
experiencing and letting that intuitive part of you merge with the
other person, and you’re feeling their pain or joy or hope or fear in
yourself. Then it’s no longer “us” and “them”; it’s just “us.” Practice
this in your relationships with others.
- Ram Dass
Via White Crane Institute \\ RITA MAE BROWN
This Day in Gay History
November 28
Born
1944 -
RITA MAE BROWN American writer, born; Best known for her mysteries and other novels (Rubyfruit Jungle), she is also an Emmy-nominated screenwriter. In the 1960s, Brown attended the University of Florida but was expelled; she states that it was for her participation in a civil rights rally. She moved to New York and attended New York University, where she received a degree in classics and English. Later she received another degree in cinematography from the New York School of Visial Arts. She also holds a doctorate in political science from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C.
In the late 1960s, Brown turned her attention to politics. She became active in the American Civil Rights movement, the anti-war movement, the Gay Liberation movement and the feminist movement. She cofounded the Student Homophile League and participated in the Stonewall Uprising (pg 243 of the 1997 edition of "Rita Will": "There stood Martha Shelley and I in a sea of rioting Gay men...'Martha, we'd better get the hell out of here.'") in New York City. She took an administrative position with the fledgling National Organization for Women, but angrily resigned in February 1970 over Betty Friedan’s anti-Gay remarks and NOW's attempts to distance itself from Lesbian organizations. She played a leading role in the "Lavender Menace" zap of the Second Congress to Unite Women on May 1, 1970, which protested Friedan's remarks and the exclusion of Lesbians from the women's movement.
In the early 1970s, she became a founding member of The Furies Collective, a Lesbian feminist newspaper collective which held that heterosexuality was the root of all oppression. She is the former girlfriend of tennis player Martina Navratilova, actress and writer Fannie Flagg, socialite Judy Nelson and politician Elaine Noble. Brown enjoys American fox hunting and is master of her Fox Hunt Club. She has also played polo and started the woman-only Blue Ridge Polo Club.
The woman is funny, she’s deadly serious, and you’d better damn well listen up. She’s just like Molly Bolt, the heroine of her semi-autobiographical Rubyfruit Jungle who locks her adoptive mother in the root cellar. She’s a born fighter and doesn’t take any nonsense from anyone. She’d be awfully hard to take if it weren’t for the fact that she’s right in what she says almost all the time. And she says exactly what most people don’t want to hear. Like, for example, “I don’t think there is a ‘Gay lifestyle.’ I think that’s superficial crap all that talk about Gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let’s don’t confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture, that’s a fad and it passes. I think we’ve blown superficial characteristics out of proportion…”
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Friday, November 26, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Enlivening Patience
Patience
can demand the most determined effort, especially when the habits of
irritation and anger have built up over a lifetime or more, yet it is
enlivened by the sweetest of qualities, such as humor, lightness, and
perspective.
Via Dhamma Wheel // Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Intoxication
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Via Lion’s Roar \\ Learn the “BASICS” of Insight Meditation
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Via Daily Dharma: Meditating Without Goals
While
it is necessary to be attracted to our practice if we are to develop a
strong motivation to do it, it is entirely destructive if that
attraction is based on achieving, during the practice, a desired state
of mind while excluding others.
Via Dhamma Wheel \\ Refraining from Frivolous Speech
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Tomorrow: Reflecting upon Social Action
One week from today: Refraining from False Speech
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One week from today: Refraining from False Speech
Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media
#DhammaWheel
Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - November 24, 2021 💌
From the soul’s point of view, you come to appreciate that each one of
us is living out his or her own karma. We interact together, and those
interactions are the grist for each other’s mill of awakening. From a
personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the soul’s
point of view, you develop appreciation.
This shift from judging to appreciating — to appreciating yourself and
what your karmic predicament is, and who other beings are with their own
karma — brings everything into a simple loving awareness. To be free
means to open your heart and your being to the fullness of who you are
because only when you are resting in the place of unity can you truly
honor and appreciate others and the incredible diversity of the
universe.
- Ram Dass -
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // Today's Gay Wisdom: Thanksgiving
Today's Gay Wisdom
1941 -
Influenced by the campaigning of author Sarah Josepha Hale, who wrote letters to politicians for around 40 years trying to make it an official holiday, Lincoln proclaimed the date to be the final Thursday in November in an attempt to foster a sense of American unity between the Northern and Southern states. Because of the ongoing Civil War and the Confederate States of America's refusal to recognize Lincoln's authority, a nationwide roll-out of the Thanksgiving date was not realized until Reconstruction was completed in the 1870s. These things happen when you try something new, right?
Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving an official holiday by proclamation in 1863, designating it as the last Thursday of November. Many southern states weren’t supportive of Thanksgiving at first. They were not happy about the federal government telling them to celebrate and felt that it was a “New England” holiday. They were still a bit miffed about the whole Civil War thing.
Despite Lincoln’s proclamation, the date of Thanksgiving was not fixed until 1941, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a bill setting the holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. He moved it up a week to help the economy by lengthening the Christmas shopping season.
Republicans were not down with this change, and retaliated by calling it “Democrat Thanksgiving” (or “Franksgiving”). They celebrated the following Thursday, calling that “Republican Thanksgiving.” Many Republican governors defied the change of date and observed the holiday on the last Thursday of the month, anyway. Republicans have some experience of being childish pre-Obama, it seems.
Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade in 1924 was held with live animals from the Central Park Zoo and was billed as “The Christmas Parade.” This was the parade for the next three years.
In 1927, Goodyear sponsored a giant balloon of Felix the Cat, starting that tradition. Until 1933, the balloons were just released to float off into the sky at the end of the parade and $100 was given by Macy’s to whomever found a deflated balloon.
That stopped when a pilot trying to grab a loose balloon crashed his plane and died. Mickey Mouse made his debut seven years later. Kermit the Frog came along in 1985. Snoopy, who joined the parade in 1968, holds the record for most appearances in the parade with seven.
The parade route was moved to its present starting point at 77th and Central Park West in 1946. It was first televised nationally in 1947, drawing respectable viewership. Fifty years ago, the parade was almost cancelled due to the assassination of JFK. But it was felt that the nation needed it so the show went on. Each year, approximately 3.5 million people line the streets to watch the parade live while another 50 million or so watch it on TV.
Sources:
- Steelman
A Taste of Thanksgiving: Curious Facts About America’s Holiday by Christopher Forest
Ancient Ways: Reclaiming Pagan Traditions by Pauline Campanelli and Dan Campanelli
Hawaiian Mythology by Martha Warren Beckwith
The Everything Christmas Book: Stories, Songs, Food, Traditions, Revelry, and More by Brandon Toropov, Sharon Gapen Cook, Marian Gonsior and Susan Robinson
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Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
www.whitecraneinstitute.org
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Via Daily Dharma: Acknowledging What Is
Whether
a buddha comes into this world or not, the nature of things is still
the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true,
what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have
to acknowledge or recognize what is.
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