2022.02.06 Ann Gleig (Queer Buddhism, Racial Justice & Buddhism, Buddhism).mp3
Article in Google Books: Undoing Whiteness in America Buddhist Modernism: Critical, Collective, and Contextual Turns
Article at tandfonline.com: Queering Buddhism or Buddhist De-Queering? Reflecting on Differences: Amongst Western LGBTQI Buddhists
and the Limits of Liberal Convert
Buddhism
In
turning toward our pain there’s great freedom—a freedom that grounds us
in our core of being. As we slowly but steadily undo our various ways
of fleeing our pain, the energy we’ve invested in getting away from our
pain—as opposed to simply being with our pain—is freed up, becoming
available for us to use for truly life-giving purposes.
Robert Augustus Masters, “A Painless Present”
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 Mission Joy: Happiness in Troubled Times Directed by Peggy Callahan and Louie Psihoyos |
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| Buddhist teacher Judy Lief explains the Buddha’s deep analysis of the roots of anxiety and shows how mindfulness can help us ease the suffering of an anxious mind. | ||
| Mindfulness
of the breath is especially helpful in working with anxiety. Through
meditation practice we learn about our own breath patterns—how our
breathing changes from fast to slow, shallow to deeper, from tight to
free-flowing, depending on our thoughts and emotional state. As we
become familiar with these variations, we are able to work with the
breath as a healing force. If we feel anxious, we can deliberately
regulate our breathing until it is slow and steady. We can drop the
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When
we are clear and sure about what we are doing, we are less open to the
many other possibilities available. But when we let ourselves hang out
in the space of not-knowing, there is enormous potential and life could
unfold in innumerable ways. So rather than avoid and fear this place of
uncertainty, we can embrace it and all its gifts.
Kaira Jewel Lingo, “Trusting the Unknown”
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Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (b: 1867) died. Born in Metapa, Matagalpa, Nicaragua in 1867. he achieved renown as RUBÉN DARÍO. Dario was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernism (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío has had a great and lasting influence on 20th century Spanish literature and journalism. He has been praised as the "Prince of Castilian Letters" and undisputed father of the modernismo literary movement
In November, 2012, the University of Arizona acquired a privately-held collection of manuscripts and letters created by Dario. This distinctive collection of archival material contained documents pertaining to Darío’s life and work as a poet, journalist and diplomat. Several of the manuscripts are signed transcripts, written in Darío’s hand, of some of his most important works including “Coloquio de los Centauros,” two versions of “Los motivos del lobo” and “Canto épico a las glorias de Chile,” a manuscript of 76 pages, which was one of Darío’s first long poems.
The documents have already begun to alter the scholarship on Darío. The peer-reviewed “Bulletin of Spanish Studies,” a prestigious academic journal from the United Kingdom, has published an article by Professor Acereda in its August 2012 issue based on letters found in ASU’s collection. The article, “‘Nuestro más profundo y sublime secreto’: Los amores transgresores entre Rubén Darío y Amado Nervo,” ("Our Most Profound and Sublime Secret: the Transgressive Love of Ruben Dario and Amado Nervo") reveals for the first time a secret romantic relationship between Darío and famed Mexican poet AMADO NERVO (1870-1919) the Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay, journalist, poet, and educator. Acereda said,“The exact nature of this relationship is evidenced in a series of intimate letters exchanged between the two poets and they help us to better understand the respective works of these modernist authors, as well as to establish a re-reading of certain texts.”
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Awakening
reveals the no-thingness of things—that no thing is apart from all
other things. To realize truly that there is only this nature, with no
“other” outside us, is to naturally want to refrain from causing harm,
just as we refrain from doing harm to one of our own limbs or eyes.
Bodhin Kjolhede, “Pain, Passion, and the Precepts”
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The
breath is like a soothing friend holding your hand as you walk into
fear or loneliness or anger, encouraging you to stay with it. And if you
feel like running away, observe that. And the breath is always there,
in, out, in, out.
Interview with Larry Rosenberg by Amy Gross, “The Art of Doing Nothing”
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| Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are |
The African philosophy of ubuntu
teaches that we are human only through the humanity of others.
Buddhists of African descent explore the synergy between ubuntu and the
Buddhist teachings on interdependence. From the March 2022 issue of Lion’s Roar. |
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RIGHT SPEECH
Refraining from Malicious Speech |
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It says in the Tao, “Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.”
The way I hear this in psychology is: motivation affects perception.
When I’m hungry, I see what’s edible. If I’m horny, I see what’s
makeable. If I’m tired, I see what’s soft, you know, my motivation
selects out of the infinity of the universe what it is that fits in with
my desires.
Since that’s the case, as long as you’re identified with your desires,
you can’t help but manipulate the universe to try to bring about that
gratification of your desires. If you carry that to its ultimate truth,
you see that everybody around you is an object to be manipulated to
give you that gratification.
So if it says, “Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing,” what does it
mean to have an eye unclouded by longing? It’s the place in your being,
in your awareness, which is not totally identified with your desire
system.
My sense is that to the extent you are not attached to your desire
systems, you are able to hear other human beings, and you do less of
projecting into them what you need, and the result is that out of your
action comes responses which are more compassionate to who they are than
your need at the moment.
So this doesn’t mean you don’t have desires, but rather there is a
paradox that’s hard to work with, which is this: “What does it mean to
be fully involved in life and non-attached?”
- Ram Dass
You
don’t escape from your delusions in zazen. Instead, you look straight
at them, since you have to work with them. This is the paradox. You
never enter a promised paradise in which there will be no delusion. But
all your delusions are workable. If they weren’t, I think we’d all go
mad.
Jakusho Kwong-roshi, “Emptying into Spaciousness”
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We’ve been talking about balance—that the game is not to push away the
world, the game is not to get caught in it—the game is to, as Christ
said, ‘Be in the world, but not of the world,’ to be simultaneously
empty and full, to be somebody and nobody. It’s all these paradoxes you
have to embrace. There’s nothing to do, so get on with it.” - Ram Dass
Excerpt from Episode 191 of the Ram Dass Here & Now podcast
