Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Via White Crane Institute /// NPR
Noteworthy  1970 - NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO is founded in the United States. | ||
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Via Daily Dharma: Coloring Your Future
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Compassion
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Via GBF -- "Cultivating Equanimity" with Beth Mulligan
Our latest dharma talk is now available on the GBF website, podcast and YouTube channel:
Cultivating Equanimity – Beth Mulligan
How can we cultivate a mind that stays steady, open, and responsive even when life becomes unpredictable?
In this talk, Beth Mulligan explores equanimity as a living practice rather than a distant ideal. She frames equanimity as the quiet strength that allows a person to meet experience without collapsing into overwhelm or tightening into resistance. Speaking with warmth and clarity, she describes how this quality grows not through detachment, but through intimacy with our own moment‑to‑moment experience—especially the parts we’d rather avoid.
Beth highlights several practical doorways into equanimity, each grounded in mindfulness and compassion. She explains how the mind’s habitual reactions can soften when we learn to recognize them early, and she offers simple ways to steady attention when emotions surge. Key themes include:
- Understanding the difference between indifference and balanced presence
- Recognizing the “eight worldly winds” and how they shape reactivity
- Using the body as an anchor when the mind becomes turbulent
- Allowing joy and difficulty with equal care
The result is a talk that invites listeners to see equanimity not as a final achievement, but as a trustworthy companion that grows each time we meet our lives with honesty and kindness.
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Enjoy 900+ free recorded dharma talks at https://gaybuddhist.org/
Monday, February 23, 2026
Via White Crane Institute \\\ GUTENBERG BIBL
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Noteworthy  1455 - The traditional date for the publication of the GUTENBERG BIBLE, the first Western book printed from movable type thus transforming what had been an apocryphal transcription and imprecise oral tradition into rigid stone. While the Gutenberg Bible helped introduce printing to the West, the process was already well established in other parts of the world. Chinese artisans were pressing ink onto paper as early as the second century A.D., and by the 800s, they had produced full-length books using wooden block printing. Movable type also first surfaced in the Far East. Sometime around the mid-11th century, a Chinese alchemist named Pi Sheng developed a system of individual character types made from a mixture of baked clay and glue. Metal movable type was later used in Korea to create the “Jikji,” a collection of Zen Buddhist teachings. The Jikji was first published in 1377, some 75 years before Johannes Gutenberg began churning out his Bibles in Mainz, Germany. By studying the size of Gutenberg’s paper supply, historians have estimated that he produced around 180 copies of his Bible during the early 1450s. That may seem miniscule, but at the time there were probably only around 30,000 books in all of Europe. The splash that Gutenberg’s Bibles made is evident in a letter the future Pope Pius II wrote to Cardinal Carvajal in Rome. In it, he raves that the Bibles are “exceedingly clean and correct in their script, and without error, such as Your Excellency could read effortlessly without glasses.” Most Gutenberg Bibles contained 1,286 pages bound in two volumes, yet almost no two are exactly alike. Of the 180 copies, some 135 were printed on paper, while the rest were made using vellum, a parchment made from calfskin. Due to the volumes’ considerable heft, it has been estimated that some 170 calfskins were needed to produce just one Gutenberg Bible from vellum. Out of some 180 original printed copies of the Gutenberg Bible, 49 still exist in library, university and museum collections. Less than half are complete, and some only consist of a single volume or even a few scattered pages. Germany stakes the claim to the most Gutenberg Bibles with 14, while the United States has 10, three of which are owned by the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. The last sale of a complete Gutenberg Bible took place in 1978, when a copy went for a cool $2.2 million. A lone volume later sold for $5.4 million in 1987, and experts now estimate a complete copy could fetch upwards of $35 million at auction. | ||
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Via Daily Dharma: Recognizing Interdependence
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering
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Sunday, February 22, 2026
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\\ Words of Wisdom - February 22, 2026 ❄️
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