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Monday, March 11, 2024
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and the Third Jhāna
Via Daily Dharma: Turn Towards Dukkha
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - March 10, 2024 💌
As you quiet your mind just a little bit, you get so that you’re not automatically reacting to everything. You become what’s called responsive rather than reactive. In other words, something happens and there’s a moment when it’s just happening, you’re just with it. As your awareness expands to include more than your separate self, it’s as if you’re part of the gestalt of it all, and you experience the totality of it. And then, out of that quietness comes an act that is appropriate to that moment.
- Ram Dass
From Ram Dass Here & Now Podcast - Ep. 246 - How to Be Responsive, Not Reactive
Via White Crane Institute // Germany's PARAGRAPH 175 and THE GERMAN SYNODAL ASSEMBLY ON THE REFORM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
1994 -
On this date Germany's PARAGRAPH 175 was finally revoked. Originally adopted in 1871, Paragraph 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code that made homosexual acts between males a crime. The statute was amended several times. The Nazis broadened the law in 1935 and increased §175 StGB prosecutions by an order of magnitude; thousands died in concentration camps, regardless of guilt or innocence. East Germany reverted to the old version of the law in 1950, limited its scope to sex with youths under 18 in 1968, and abolished it entirely in 1988. West Germany retained the Nazi-era statute until 1969, when it was limited to "qualified cases"; it was further attenuated in 1973 and finally revoked entirely in 1994 after German reunification.
2023 -
THE GERMAN SYNODAL ASSEMBLY ON THE REFORM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH voted on this date in Frankfurt, Germany, to bless same-sex couples, with 176 of the 202 assembly members voting for the proposal, including two-thirds of the bishops in attendance.
According to a report from the newspaper Donaukurier, same-sex blessings have already been going on in the German church — but were in a canonical grey area and took place in private, rather than openly in churches.
The move stands in direct contradiction to the Vatican, which has explicitly declared that “the Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex.”
The Vatican argued that while God and the Church can bless individuals, including homosexuals, it cannot bless sin, including sexual activity that takes place outside of a valid marriage.
The issue of same-sex couple blessings is one of the main demands from the German Synodal Path, a series of conferences of the Catholic Church in Germany since 2019 that have been looking to greatly transform the Church.
The Synodal Way has proposed radical reforms, such as ordaining priestesses, declaring homosexual acts not to be sinful, and allowing all priests to be married.
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[GBF] "Jewels From Our Dark Places" with Laura Burges
How can our practice inform encounters with dark times, when we feel loss or face a turning point with trepidation?
Laura
Burges shares that we can find "fountains of joy" even in going to the
places that scare us. Our practice is not separate from the dark places -
we can turn towards the darkness and examine it clearly and experience
the "soft heart of sadness" in being alive.
She draws
a parallel with the Greek myth of Persephone whose time spent annually
in Hades results in the joy reflected in the return of Spring each year.
In fact, those times that challenge us most can be a garden for
developing empathy and compassion for others in the world when they
suffer.
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Sunday, March 10, 2024
Via Daily Dharma: True Presence
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