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Thursday, December 29, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Bodily Action
Via Daily Dharma: Creative Problem-Solving
We
have to see with fresh eyes all of the conflicts that create suffering
in our world. We don’t want to lose our heads. Instead we’re looking for
new and imaginative ways to approach the suffering we behold.
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, “Bodhisattvas Have More Fun”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Via Lions Roar // The Practice of No Practice
“How do we come to trust in Amida Buddha’s generosity and compassion?” asks Nagapriya. He explores Shinran’s teachings and the practice of nembutsu.
Via GBF //Make a tax-deductible donation that saves the lives of LGBT+ refugees, today...
To my dear Gay Buddhists,
With the help of many friends here, my brother Frank Rodriguez and I are grateful to have gotten 24
Afghan activist and LGBT+ refugees to safety in the last year,
including many to Canada. Just last week we successfully evacuated a
lesbian human rights defender and her 5 daughters, and a young gay
activist who is almost finished with his veterinary degree.
We now face a crisis and an opportunity: we
have 5 remaining refugees in Afghanistan. These women, human rights
defenders, and LGBT+ are being actively hunted by the Taliban and face
persecution, prison, death or forced marriage and rape. However, Canada
has graciously invited these at-risk refugees in Afghanistan to come to
Canada to become permanent residents, and then citizens. Since Canada
has no embassy in Afghanistan, they must travel to a nearby country by
the end of January, before this invitation expires.
We
are raising $30,000 to transport them out of Afghanistan (paying for
their transportation, visas, and accommodations while they wait in an
interim location to be flown to Canada). 100% of your tax deductible
donation goes directly to the refugees for their safe passage and care.
When Canada offers an invitation to refugees, their government program
provides a year of financial support, free medical care, and language
and career education. For refugees fleeing harm from the Taliban, it's a
golden ticket to a hopeful future so these invitations are both hard to
get and not to be taken for granted. But first we have to sneak them
out of Afghanistan (dangerous) and support them in another country while
they wait for their flight to Canada (often months of waiting).
We
are now collaborating with one of the most effective and agile refugee
rescue organizations in the U.S., a 501c3 called SCM Medical Missions in
Seattle. This week, we created a special fund to rescue these refugees,
called the Freedom Partners Fund, at SCM. All donations are 100% tax
deductible and directly to fund the evacuation of these refugees out of
Afghanistan by the January 31st deadline. This is a completely
volunteer operation, with no staff or overhead.
If
you are moved to contribute again by the promise of these 5 people and
the extraordinary invitation from Canada, please donate now at this
special landing page, by credit card, Paypal, or check. A donation of ANY AMOUNT would be helpful to raising the $30,000 needed.
Happy New Year! We would be glad to answer any questions you may have about our LGBTQI refugee work.
Joe and Frank Rodriguez
P.S. Feel free to share this post to interested friends and family members.
Via Ram Dass LGBTQ+ Jan Meetup ~ Meditating with Ram Dass
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from False Speech
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Via Daily Dharma: Attaining Wisdom
We attain wisdom not by creating ideals but by learning to see things clearly, as they are.
Jack Kornfield, “Theravada Vipassana Practice”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Via White Crane Institute // BRYNE R.S. FONE
1936 -
BRYNE R.S. FONE, American scholar and writer, born; It would be impossible to compile a complete survey of Gay male literature; the very looseness of the definition of "Gay" (not to mention the wealth of possible material) would overwhelm the project. Despite that, Byrne R.S. Fone fashioned a useful, intelligent, and amazingly functional volume that traces Gay male themes from classical antiquity to the present day.
Drawing on a variety of traditions and cultures -- from ancient Greece to modern Egypt, from the Hebrew Bible to the Russian revolutionary Sergei Esenin -- Fone reviews and reprints not only significant texts, but also supplies readable, intelligent introductions that illuminate the subject in the Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (ISBN: 0231096712).
Most of the material, apart from a short section on Latin American and Cuban writing, is steeped in a Western European tradition; the book nevertheless conjures a good case for a Gay sensibility--or rather a series of sensibilities--that amazes, alarms, and endures. Fone is also the author of A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature, 1750-1969 and Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Historical Text.
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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 Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - December 28, 2022 💌
Ramakrishna said, "Only two kinds of people can attain to
self-knowledge: those whose minds are not encumbered at all with
learning - that is to say, not overcrowded with thoughts borrowed from
others - and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences,
have come to realize that they know nothing."
That last part is when the Jnana yoga path is really working, because
the "know nothing" is the next step in this trip. You learn and you
learn and you learn until you realize that with all you've learned, you
don't know anything - and that's the route through. You use your
intellectual models to get you going - they're really helpful for that -
but you don't cling to the models; you keep letting go of them, letting
go of the intellectual structures. Otherwise they get in your way.
-Ram Dass -
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Lovingkindness
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