Thursday, October 13, 2022
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Malicious Speech
Refraining from Malicious Speech
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One week from today: Refraining from Harsh Speech
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Via Daily Dharma: Living Generously
To not be stingy with my life, with myself, is to fully express myself at every moment—fully express everything that I am.
Roshi Nancy Mujo Baker, “On Not Being Stingy”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 12, 2022 💌
"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 -
Excerpt from Polishing the Mirror: How to Live From Your Spiritual Heart
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Releasing Old Views
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tend to think the gift is to have seen something new, but perhaps it’s
more to have seen through something old, and the real discovery may not
be a truer formulation but the giving up of any view.
Henry Shukman, “The Art of Being Wrong”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Compassion
Cultivating Compassion
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Tomorrow: Refraining from Malicious Speech
One week from today: Cultivating Appreciative Joy Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page. |
Via White Crane Institute // NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY -- National Coming Out Day was founded by Robert Eichberg and Jean O'Leary on October 11, 1988 in celebration of the first Gay march on Washington D.C. a year earlier. The purpose of the march and of National Coming Out Day is to promote government and public awareness of Gay, bisexual, Lesbian and transgender rights and to celebrate homosexuality. National Coming Out Day is a time to publicly display Gay pride. Many choose this day to come out to their parents, friends, co-workers and themselves.
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Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute
"With the increasing commodification of gay news, views, and culture by powerful corporate interests, having a strong independent voice in our community is all the more important. White Crane is one of the last brave standouts in this bland new world... a triumph over the looming mediocrity of the mainstream Gay world." - Mark Thompson
Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
www.whitecraneinstitute.org
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Via LGBTQ Nation // Heartstopper books
“Heartstopper” books accused of “promoting the LGBTQ ideology” in library defunding effort
Monday, October 10, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering
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Via Daily Dharma: Getting Closer to Our Pain
The closer we get to our pain, the greater are the odds that we’ll be able to skillfully relate to it rather than from it.
Robert Augustus Masters, “A Painless Present”
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Via White Crane Institute // MPHO ANDREA TUTU van FURTH
MPHO ANDREA TUTU van FURTH is a South African Anglican priest, author and activist. We know she was born in this year, but have randomly assigned this birthdate because we can't ascertain her actual date of birth. She is the daughter of Leah and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. She coauthored two books with her father, and a biography about him with journalist Allister Sparks. She was ordained in 2003, but due to the regulations of the Anglican Church of South Africa, she was not permitted to function as a priest in the church after marrying a woman in 2015. In 2022 she began preaching in Amsterdam. As a child, Tutu had no desire to follow in her father's footprints as a priest and later described her path to the ministry as taking the "scenic route" and said she felt God calling her into the profession.
Tutu van Furth was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 2003. Before her ordination, she was the director of the Discovery Program at All Saints Church in Worcester, Massachusetts. She received her master's degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and after her ordination she began preaching at the historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
Tutu van Furth has co-authored a number of books including Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World and Tutu: The Authorised Portrait; The former two books were written with her father and the latter with journalist Allister Sparks. She has been an outspoken advocate for the importance of forgiveness. She made news for forgiving the murderer of her housekeeper in 2012. She and her father have advocated for forgiveness in the wake of racial tensions and police shootings in the United States. As a public speaker, she has shared the stage with The 14th Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, Ken Robinson and others.
Tutu van Furth was the founding director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation and served as executive director from 2011 to 2016.
In January 2022, Mpho Tutu van Furth was confirmed as pastor of Vrijburg, a church in Amsterdam, by the reverend Joost Röselaers
In 2015, Tutu married Marceline van Furth, a Dutch professor of medicine, and moved to Amstelveen in the Netherlands. Shortly after the marriage, the Diocese of Saldanha Bay withdrew her license as a priest. Both of her parents were supportive of her marriage. According to the BBC, the Anglican Church of South Africa is looking at new guidelines for members who enter same-sex unions, but it is "not clear whether there will be any change when it comes to same-sex marriages of church clerics".
In 2022, the Church of England – which does not allow its clergy to marry the same gender – prohibited her from leading a funeral because she is married to a woman.
In regards to her marriage, Tutu van Furth said, "I had the extreme good fortune of growing up in a household with parents who were very clear about their faith and very clear about full inclusion of all people ... regardless of gender and gender identity and regardless of sexual orientation." Her father said in 2013 that he would never "worship a God who is homophobic" and both of them have been active in calls for LGBT equality. Desmond Tutu stated that he was "as passionate about [the campaign against homophobia] as I ever was about apartheid".
Reverend Tutu von Furth had previously been married to Joseph Burris, with whom she had two children
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Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute
"With the increasing commodification of gay news, views, and culture by powerful corporate interests, having a strong independent voice in our community is all the more important. White Crane is one of the last brave standouts in this bland new world... a triumph over the looming mediocrity of the mainstream Gay world." - Mark Thompson
Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
www.whitecraneinstitute.org
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Sunday, October 9, 2022
BBC Crowd Science // Why am I gay?
Human sexuality comes in many forms, from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual. But seeing as homosexuality creates apparent reproductive and evolutionary disadvantages, listener Ahmed from Oslo wants to know: why are some people gay? CrowdScience presenter Caroline Steel examines what science can - and can't - tell us about the role of nature, nurture and evolution in human sexual attraction. She asks a geneticist what we know of the oft-debated 'gay gene', as well as looking into why homosexual men on average have more older brothers than heterosexual men. Caroline looks into the role of nurture with a developmental psychologist to answer a question from a CrowdScience listener from Myanmar. He wonders if the distant relationship he has with his own father has impacted his own feelings of attraction. She also learns about research into a group of people in Samoa who may shed light on the benefits of traditionally non-reproductive relationships for communities as a whole. Presented by Caroline Steel Produced by Jonathan Blackwell for BBC World Service
Contributors:
Dr. Kevin Mitchell – Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin
Dr. Malvina Skorska - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
Prof. Lisa Diamond - Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, University of Utah Prof.
Paul Vasey, Professor and Research Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge
Vaitulia Alatina Ioelu, Chief Executive Officer, Samoa Business Hub
