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Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Equanimity
Via Daily Dharma: Art Reflects Mind
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Via White Crane Institute // Tiananmen Square
Noteworthy
1989 -
The killing around Tiananmen Square started soon after midnight. It was a different army from the unarmed one which had tried to enter the square on Friday night and failed. This one was told to kill, and the soldiers with their AK- 47 automatic rifles and the armoured personnel carriers with their machine guns opened fire indiscriminately, in the air, directly at the huge crowds, at small groups, everywhere.
Lined up in rows across the Avenue of Eternal Peace, they advanced slowly, shooting all the while, then they would halt and kneel and fire directly into the crowd. They did the same at the southern end of the square by Zhengyang Gate. When both ends of the square were cleared, they switched off the lights and encircled the thousands of students who had crowded together on the Revolutionary Heroes' monument. Dawn broke and riot police moved in with truncheons. Everyone expected the army. But no one expected such ferocity, such armor, such numbers. There were more than 100,000 soldiers. It is unknown to this day how many demonstrators were killed in the square.
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Monday, June 3, 2024
Via FB // By john roedel
Happy Gay Pride….😍✊🏽✊🏽🌈🌈
I spoke to a person
who is convinced their
deceased brother
is in hell
simply because of
who they loved
I told them that
if hell is real
I don't think
it is a destination
I believe hell is a campsite
that gets formed in the hearts
of people who judge others
for living a life that they refuse
to try and understand
those who condemn
others to damnation
are the city managers of
hell on Earth
my love,
let us build a heaven
in the space that exists
between my life and yours
let us create an endless garden
paradise where every single
exotic flower is honored
let us form a community of
angels who don't try to
polish each other's halos
we only have
so many heartbeats
left inside of us
to waste a single one
on deciding who gets
to grow like a sunflower
under the light of the hereafter
who knows what happens
to us once our bodies release
our souls like birthday party balloons?
~ why spend an ounce of energy
on deciding who gets to go to heaven
when we can spend our lives
building it here on Earth
with the bricks of how we
treat each other?
until I hear the harps
and see the golden gates
I'm going to consider this
world the Promised Land
and I promise to be as kind
as I can be with your heart
while we are here together
~ john roedel
(watercolor art by Tanta Gloria)
Via Daily Dharma: Silence Needs Wisdom
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering
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