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Thursday, February 16, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Social Action
Via Daily Dharma: Loneliness Isn’t About Being Alone
Loneliness is the feeling that one is not complete alone. What if it turns out nothing is missing at all? What if nothing changes when another person is near?
Sallie Jiko Tisdale, “How to Be Alone”
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Via Daily Dharma: Loneliness Isn’t About Being Alone
Loneliness is the feeling that one is not complete alone. What if it turns out nothing is missing at all? What if nothing changes when another person is near?
Sallie Jiko Tisdale, “How to Be Alone”
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Via Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
“How do I know the difference between mind chatter (ego) and the quiet voice within? What part of me do I trust?”
Ram Dass: People who are very enamored with their intellect don’t trust that inner space.
They don’t know how to tune to it. They just haven’t noticed its existence, because they were so busy thinking about everything.
There’s very little you can say to somebody who’s going through that because it isn’t real to them. It doesn’t exist. You can remind them of moments they’ve been out of their mind, because once you have acknowledged the existence of that other plane of reality, in which you know that wisdom exists, then immediately all the moments when you had it in life, that you treated as irrelevant or as error, or as, “I was out of my mind,” suddenly become real to you, and you start to trust that dimension more.
But what happens is the minute you’re in an anxious moment, you go into your mind and try to think your way out of it again. Then you just feel the harshness of it, while the intuitive wisdom has a kind of flow with things. It has a soft way of being in the universe, not a harshness. Even a firmness is soft. Yeah, it’s a tricky one to talk about...
Ram Dass: People who are very enamored with their intellect don’t trust that inner space.
They don’t know how to tune to it. They just haven’t noticed its existence, because they were so busy thinking about everything.
There’s very little you can say to somebody who’s going through that because it isn’t real to them. It doesn’t exist. You can remind them of moments they’ve been out of their mind, because once you have acknowledged the existence of that other plane of reality, in which you know that wisdom exists, then immediately all the moments when you had it in life, that you treated as irrelevant or as error, or as, “I was out of my mind,” suddenly become real to you, and you start to trust that dimension more.
But what happens is the minute you’re in an anxious moment, you go into your mind and try to think your way out of it again. Then you just feel the harshness of it, while the intuitive wisdom has a kind of flow with things. It has a soft way of being in the universe, not a harshness. Even a firmness is soft. Yeah, it’s a tricky one to talk about...
Via Daily Dharma: The Act of Love
At
the heart of radical presence is simply the act of love. Loving
ourselves, loving others, and allowing that love to be deeply manifested
in the world in a real clear way.
Lama Rod Owens, “Teachings for Uncertain Times: Recognizing Our Intersectionality”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Social Action
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Frivolous Speech
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Via Daily Dharma: Strengthening Generosity
Like
any form of strength, generosity needs to be intentionally cultivated
over time, and everyone must begin in whatever state of mind they
already happen to be.
Dale S. Wright, “The Bodhisattva’s Gift”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 15, 2023 💌
The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.
- Ram Dass -
[GBF] New Dharma Talk: Kinship with the Spirit World
Our latest dharma talk from Sean Feit Oakes is now live:
"Kinship with the Spirit World"
Sean's upcoming online course on the topic begins March 9:
"Animal, Spirit, Human, God: Karma & the Cycle of Samsara"
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Via White Crane Institute // TODAY'S GAY WISDOM Harry Hay…The Mattachine Society
Today's Gay Wisdom
2018 -
TODAY'S GAY WISDOM
Harry Hay…The Mattachine Society
In 1948, as Senator Joseph McCarthy railed against homosexuals in the State Department, Harry Hay, working on the Henry Wallace presidential campaign, wrote a startling document, declaring homosexuals an oppressed minority. While the idea is widely accepted today, at the time the notion of homosexuals as a minority was considered absurd. But it was this key concept that would eventually bring the Gay and Lesbian rights movement together.
Harry's platform for the Wallace campaign was never voted on, but he remained determined to organize homosexuals to fight for their equal rights. Two years later, he met Rudi Gernreich (who would later go on to become a noted fashion designer, most famously of the “topless” bathing suit for women) and together they canvassed beaches in the Los Angeles area known as homosexual gathering places, inviting people to a discussion group about the just released Kinsey Report. In November 1950, Harry showed the plank written for the Wallace campaign to Bob Hull, a student in his Southern California Labor School class. Bob shared the document with two of his friends, Chuck Rowland and Dale Jennings, and on November 11, 1950, the five met for the first time to discuss forming a political group that would later become the Mattachine Society. All of the founding members identified themselves as leftist.
Given the fearful political climate, Mattachine Society meetings often took place in secret with members using aliases. Like the Communist Party, the organization was organized in a cell structure that was non-centralized so that should a confiscation of records occur only limited information would be available to the authorities. In 1951 the group of five was joined by two other members, Konrad Stevens and James Gruber, and together they created the Mattachine Society Missions and Purposes statement and held their first conference. Given the risk that homosexuals presented to the Communist Party, Hay resigned from the Party in that same year.
Over the course of the next two years, the Mattachine Society worked to organize and increase regional chapters throughout most of Southern California, but it was not until the arrest of member Dale Jennings on police entrapment charges that the Mattachine Society took on its first political battle. Police entrapment was a common form of harassment against homosexuals during that period. Suspects' names were printed in the newspapers, which caused many to lose their jobs and become estranged from their families. By standing up to defend Jennings, the Mattachine Society not only rose to the defense of one of their members, but also took on the notorious Los Angeles Police Department for its pattern and practice of homosexual harassment.
Jennings charges were dismissed due to the judge catching the arresting officers in a lie. This victory was not reported in the papers, but the Mattachine Society took it upon themselves to publicize the event through flyers distributed throughout Los Angeles to areas where homosexuals met.
The result was a swelling of attendance at Mattachine Society meetings. But the newcomers, nervous about the founders ties to leftist political causes, called for a statewide convention. On the last day of the conference the original Mattachine founders (Hay, Rowland, Hull, Jennings, Stevens, Gruber) resigned due to political differences with the new membership.
The Mattachine Society grew into a national movement, and in conjunction with a Lesbian organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, became the above ground civil rights organizations for Gays and Lesbians until the Stonewall riot in 1969. The final Mattachine Society office closed in the 1980s.
White Crane gratefully acknowledges the assistance of historian and Hay biographer, Stuart Timmons.
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