A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Friday, September 16, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Taking What is Not Given
Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Taking What is Not Given
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One week from today: Abstaining from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures
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Via Daily Dharma: Assessing Our Actions
If
we are not willing to see and accept those events in which we have been
the source of others’ suffering, then we cannot truly know ourselves or
the grace by which we live.
Gregg Krech, “Naikan Therapy”
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Thursday, September 15, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Verbal Action
Reflecting Upon Verbal Action
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One week from today: Reflecting upon Mental Action
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Via Daily Dharma: Practicing Nonduality with Pain
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goal-oriented healing practice cannot permeate deeply enough. We must
penetrate our pain so thoroughly that illness and health lose their
distinction, allowing us just to live our lives.
Darlene Cohen, “The Practice of Nonpreference”
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Wednesday, September 14, 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: Investigating Desire
By going into the experience of desire itself, rather than acting on it, you let go of the belief that you are incomplete.
Ken McLeod, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 14, 2022 💌
"Now the elegance of karma yoga is, the very act you do to help another person is simultaneously the act you’re doing to work on yourself. Like, I am helping you now, at some level, but this act is my work on myself. Because the clearer I get, the better my help is for you. So I’m serving as an act to work on myself; I am working on myself as an act to better serve you. Can you see how the circle works? Can you see the elegance of that?"
- Ram Dass -
From Here & Now Ep. 207: Getting Free with Karma Yoga
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Via White Crane Institute // SIR FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
SIR FRANCIS SCOTT KEY wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” on this day. We celebrate this as a moment in Gay history because the theme of the anthem is based on the then popular “Anacreon in Heaven.” Ahhhh...Anacreon. Who was Anacreon? Born in Teos, Ionia circa 570 BCE, Anacreon was one of the nine Lyric Poets of the golden age of Greek poetry. And being the good and manly Greek he was, Anacreon’s poems and odes were largely about the beautiful boys he loved or longed for or held in his arms as he cooed lyrical poetry to them. He kisses and tells; he names names: Smerdis, Leukapsis, Smialus, Eurylus and Bathyluss, probably the boy band of the day.
The structure of his poesy was so popular in its own time that others imitated the eponymously named “Anacreontics.” Anacreon was rediscovered by English poets in the 19th century and they swooned for him like a well-oiled boy in the gymnasium. The vogue for Anacreontics in English culminated in the popular song “Anacreon in Heaven,” the famously un-singable tune for the American national anthem. There have been attempts to convince Congress to seek a new national anthem, something a tad more accessible vocally for the masses. Our bet: if you want to accelerate this movement, just whisper in the ear of the Moral Majority the story of the foreign fay and his poems about “dipping his star-spangled banana” in young men. (thank you Perry Brass!) That ought to do the trick.
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