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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 29, 2024

 

"A Mantra, which is a repeated phrase, is designed to keep your consciousness centered. It’s a perspective giving device. It’s adding a third component to every relationship you have with object in the universe. This could be OM, this could be the sun, this could be Buddha consciousness, this could be called the witness, it’s Self-remembering in the Gurdjieff system. It’s a technique of adding a third component in order to get free of the identification with either of the other two.

You can use the mantra to find a center in yourself and to keep that third component going. Which allows you to watch your own drama all day long. It’s all a vehicle, and it’s going to have to go. But mantra is a useful vehicle."

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Stop Resisting Suffering

 

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Combating Ableism at the Zendo By Brendan Crowe Reflections from the Soto Zen Buddhist Association’s recent Disability in Zen Workshop Series.  Read more » Living Courageously With Bradley Donaldson Join Theravada teacher Bradley Donaldson to discuss the principles of living with courage and compassion through the lens of the Middle Length Discourses (Majjhima Nikaya 131). Watch now »

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Harsh Speech

 

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RIGHT SPEECH Refraining from Harsh Speech Harsh speech is unhealthy. Refraining from harsh speech is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning harsh speech, one refrains from harsh speech. One speaks words that are gentle, pleasing to the ear, and affectionate, words that go to the heart, are courteous, and are agreeable to many. (DN 1) One practices thus: “Others may speak harshly, but I shall abstain from harsh speech.” (MN 8) When one speaks unhurriedly, one’s body does not grow tired and one’s mind does not become excited, one’s voice is not strained and one’s throat does not become hoarse. The speech of one who speaks unhurriedly is distinct and easy to understand. (MN 139)

Reflection The previous text on right speech emphasized the drawbacks of speaking hurriedly, and this one reverses the focus and speaks to the benefits of taking your time when you have something to say. This can seem out of touch with the pace of modern life, but does that mean we should ignore this advice to fit in with the times? Might it be better to be guided by these wise words and learn to slow down how we communicate? Daily Practice How much of the stress in your experience comes from speaking too fast or trying to follow the speech of others who are speaking at a mile a minute? Notice, by paying attention, when this happens and make a conscious effort to slow down the pace of your own speech. This can have the effect of slowing down the people you talk with as well. You don’t have to be swept along by the speaking habits of others.  Tomorrow: Reflecting upon Mental Action One week from today: Refraining from Frivolous Speech Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Via White Crane Institute // TODAY'S GAY WISDOM More From Oscar Wilde’s DE PROFUNDIS

 

Today's Gay Wisdom

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TODAY'S GAY WISDOM

More From Oscar Wilde’s DE PROFUNDIS

The poor are wise, more charitable, more kind, more sensitive than we are. In their eyes prison is a tragedy in a man's life, a misfortune, a casuality, something that calls for sympathy in others. They speak of one who is in prison as of one who is 'in trouble' simply. It is the phrase they always use, and the expression has the perfect wisdom of love in it. With people of our own rank it is different.

With us, prison makes a man a pariah. I, and such as I am, have hardly any right to air and sun. Our presence taints the pleasures of others. We are unwelcome when we reappear. To revisit the glimpses of the moon is not for us. Our very children are taken away. Those lovely links with humanity are broken. We are doomed to be solitary, while our sons still live. We are denied the one thing that might heal us and keep us, that might bring balm to the bruised heart, and peace to the soul in pain. . . .

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. I am trying to say so, though they may not think it at the present moment. This pitiless indictment I bring without pity against myself. Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age. I had realised this for myself at the very dawn of my manhood, and had forced my age to realise it afterwards. Few men hold such a position in their own lifetime, and have it so acknowledged. It is usually discerned, if discerned at all, by the historian, or the critic, long after both the man and his age have passed away. With me it was different. I felt it myself, and made others feel it. Byron was a symbolic figure, but his relations were to the passion of his age and its weariness of passion. Mine were to something more noble, more permanent, of more vital issue, of larger scope.

The gods had given me almost everything. But I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease. I amused myself with being a FLANEUR, a dandy, a man of fashion. I surrounded myself with the smaller natures and the meaner minds. I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy. Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensation. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both. I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the housetop. I ceased to be lord over myself. I was no longer the captain of my soul, and did not know it. I allowed pleasure to dominate me. I ended in horrible disgrace. There is only one thing for me now, absolute humility.

I have lain in prison for nearly two years. Out of my nature has come wild despair; an abandonment to grief that was piteous even to look at; terrible and impotent rage; bitterness and scorn; anguish that wept aloud; misery that could find no voice; sorrow that was dumb. I have passed through every possible mood of suffering. Better than Wordsworth himself I know what Wordsworth meant when he said –

'Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark And has the nature of infinity.'

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Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute

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Via White Crane Institute // PATRICK WHITE

 

	Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989
This Day in Gay History
May 28 Born Nobel Laureate Patrick White 1912 - Gay Nobel prize-winning novelist PATRICK WHITE is born in Australia (d: 1990). In addition to his 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, White was the Australian poet laureate. He wrote about homosexuality in one of his twelve novels, The Twyborn Affair and his 1981 autobiography Flaws in the Glass. White’s autobiography, Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait is a work of such beauty and importance that it must be read by anyone who would understand how the Gay experience, in the hands of a master craftsman, can be transformed into great art.   |8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8| 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 |8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|

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Via KQED // Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month at KQED

 

Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month at KQED

KQED is proud to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month and has curated documentaries, series and shows to uplift LGBTQ+ voices and stories this June. The television programming lineup includes American Experience: Casa Susanna; Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano; L.A.: A Queer History; American Experience: Stonewall Uprising; and much more.

https://www.kqed.org/about/18367/on-tv-lgbtq-pride-month-june-2024?mc_key=93983613

Via Lama Rod Owens // Are you ready to let the ancestors hold you?

 

Dear Friends, What would it look and feel like to surrender to the care of ancestors? To trust how deeply we are held by them always? By connecting with our ancestors, we are practicing a form of decolonization and reconnecting to our indigenous ways of being. This is a key part of the spiritual abolition work that I’ve been speaking of. In order to defy and break free from the carceral state, the labor that we do in the unseen world is equally important and impacts the material world we live in. I invite you to rely on ancestors to support us in getting free, and I’m offering a practice series this summer to facilitate the deepening of this work among BIPOC folks. This ancestral practice will invite us towards healing traumas in our lineages and werking our grief through joy, celebration, and activating the gifts that our lived experience in BIPOC bodies offers us. Whether you are well versed in connecting with your ancestors or not sure where to begin, come as you are! Open to all who identify and hold lived experience as Black, Indigenous, a Person of Color, and/or a Person of the Global Majority, this practice series provides an opportunity to share ancestral work with one another through practice, storytelling, and discussion. Join me at the intersection of multiple traditions, including Tantric Buddhism and indigenous shamanic ritual, which can support your protection, heart-opening, and grief work as you surrender to the care of the ancestors. Love, Lama Rod P.S. If you don’t identify as BIPOC and/or of the Global Majority, please forward this to a friend or community member who does.

Letting the Ancestors Hold You BIPOC Practice Series with Lama Rod Owens Practice Sessions: Sunday, August 4th & Saturday, August 10th from 11:00am - 2:00pm ET Homecoming Circle Session with Lama Rod & Guest Speakers: Sunday, August 11th from 11:00am - 2:00pm ET

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Via Daily Dharma: Addressing the Tight and Painful Places

 

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Addressing the Tight and Painful Places Let the breath energy sit near places that might be tight, or painful. And notice if different sensations, odors, or colors are there. No pushing, no pulling, simply being near, listening, like a good friend. Marisela B. Gomez, “Finding the Juicy and Joyful in Celibacy” CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Perfect Days Interview with Wim Wenders by Tim Brinkhof The Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days by director Wim Wenders is a sweeping portrait of a person who seems to have figured out the secret of existence.  Read more »