Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día- Flower of the day 09/06/2015

“A criança nasce amando, mas logo aprende a odiar, porque entra em contato com a inconsciência coletiva. Muito cedo ela aprende a sentir ciúme e a usar máscaras para receber o que deseja. Isso aciona um círculo vicioso que faz com que o fluxo natural do amor seja interrompido.”

“El niño nace amando, pero luego aprende a odiar, porque entra en contacto con la inconsciencia colectiva. Muy temprano aprende a sentir celos y a usar máscaras para recibir lo que desea. Esto acciona un círculo vicioso que hace que el flujo natural del amor sea interrumpido.”

"When children are born, they are loving. But soon after they learn to hate, because they come into contact with the collective unconscious. From very early on they learn to feel jealousy and to use masks to get what they want. This sets off a vicious circle that interrupts the natural flow of love.”

Today's Daily Dharma: Less Ambition, Less Disturbance

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Less Ambition, Less Disturbance
The beautiful thing about having less obsessions and ambitions, and just sitting straight and watching the breathing, is that nothing will disturb us. Things only disturb us when we have an aim. When we have an aim, we become obsessed. Say our aim is to go somewhere, but somebody parks right in front of our car, blocking us. If something gets in the way of our aim, it becomes a terrible thing. If we don?t have an aim, though, it doesn't matter.

- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, "Do Nothing"

Monday, June 8, 2015

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día- Flower of the day 08/06/2015

“Você pode responder às situações da vida de duas maneiras: agindo ou reagindo. A ação é uma resposta que nasce da presença, e jamais gera sofrimento. Ela é inofensiva. A reação é o contrário. Ela sempre gera uma cadeia de consequências negativas. Por exemplo, se você come porque sente fome, apenas para suprir uma necessidade natural do seu corpo, essa resposta é positiva. Mas, quando come sem sentir fome, para aliviar uma ansiedade, você sobrecarrega o seu metabolismo, gerando consequências danosas para todo o seu sistema.”

“Puedes responder a las situaciones de la vida de dos maneras: actuando o reaccionando. La acción es una respuesta que nace de la presencia, y jamás genera sufrimiento. Es inofensiva. La reacción es lo contrario. Siempre genera una cadena de consecuencias negativas. Por ejemplo, si comes porque sientes hambre, solo para suplir una necesidad natural de tu cuerpo, esa respuesta es positiva. Pero cuando comes sin sentir hambre, para aliviar una ansiedad, sobrecargas tu metabolismo, generando consecuencias dañinas para todo tu sistema.”

“You can respond to life situations in two ways: by acting or reacting. An action is a response that is born of the present moment and it never generates suffering nor causes harm. A reaction is the opposite of this: it always sparks a chain of negative consequences. For example, if you eat because you are hungry, simply to fulfill a natural need of your body, this is a positive response. But if you eat when you are not hungry, to alleviate some anxiety, then you overload your metabolism, generating harmful consequences for your whole body.”

Today's Daily Dharma: The Music of the Mind


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The Music of the Mind
The practice of meditation involves listening closely to the music of your mind. We are not concerned in the moment about how things get to be the way they are, only that they are so very much exactly what they are.

- Andrew Olendzki, "The Music of the Mind"


Sunday, June 7, 2015

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día- Flower of the day 07/06/2015

“Um ditado popular no Brasil diz: “Quanto mais eu rezo, mais assombração me aparece”. Essa sensação é normal no início da jornada evolutiva, porque o primeiro vislumbre da Verdade geralmente é uma grande escuridão. Quando você começa a desamortecer, ou seja, quando começa a retirar as máscaras, os monstros que estavam escondidos atrás delas começam a aparecer, e isso pode ser bastante assustador.”

“Un dicho popular en Brasil dice: "Cuanto más rezo, más fantasmas me aparecen". Esta sensación es normal en el inicio del camino evolutivo, porque el primer vislumbre de la Verdad generalmente es una gran oscuridad. Cuando empiezas a salir de la anestesia, es decir, cuando empiezas a retirar las máscaras, los monstruos que estaban escondidos detrás de ellas comienzan a aparecer, y esto puede ser bastante aterrador.”

“There is a popular saying in Brazil that goes like this: ‘The more I pray, the more ghosts appear.’ This sensation is quite normal at the outset of the evolutionary journey, because the first glimpse of the truth is usually a great darkness. When you start to de-numb yourself by removing the masks, the monsters that were hiding behind them start to appear, and this can be pretty scary.”

Via Freedom From Religion Foundation / FB


Today's Daily Dharma: What Will Carry You



What Will Carry You
Just as oil rises to the top of a pot submerged in water, your virtue, your goodness, your faith, or generosity will rise to the top, and that is what will carry you to your next destination.

- The Buddha, "The Best Possible Habit"

Via Justabahai: Homosexuality – a false dichotomy?

” … I feel I can no longer associate with a religion that does not perceive LGBT rights as a true social value,” Rayshel said, adding, “I, as a gay man, find it offensive that my same-sex attraction is primarily summed up to a sex act or a perceived notion that I over-emphasize my sexuality which is seen as destructive and self-indulgent.”
Sean Rayshel in The Bay Area Reporter, 4 June 2015.


Is the Bahai Faith “a religion that does not perceive LGBT rights as a true social value?” At the practical level, that is true except where a Bahai makes it clear that they do not discriminate and that their communities do not discriminate. For the present at least, the Bahai community has something to prove in this respect.

Because of the dominance of the perception of discrimination within the Bahai community, I have to constantly state first that I am for equality for gays and lesbians and only then state that I am a Bahai. Otherwise the person I am speaking to is put off from the beginning. I have so many stories, so many encounters, in which people do a double-take and tell me, “but Bahais don’t like gays” or “Bahais discriminate.” In the Philippines, in the U.K., in New Zealand, in the U.S., in the Netherlands … people have said things such as: “Oh what is the Bahai Faith about, because when I read that you didn’t accept gays, I stopped reading” or “So tell me more – I thought the Bahai Faith was conservative” and “When I read about homosexuality being forbidden I thought it was a fundamentalist church.”


I explain that I am as much a Bahai as the person who told them that gays cannot join the Bahai Faith. Then they learn that the discrimination is not embedded in our teachings. For me it is not so much whether or not a seeker is put off but two bigger issues: that our gay children are not tormented by impossible demands, and that our community practises the essential Bahai principles of justice and equality. 

Friday, June 5, 2015

MALAFAIA VERSUS BOTICÁRIO!


Via Human Rights Campaign / FB:


Human Rights Campaign's photo.

‪#‎ICYMI‬: Hafa adai to marriage equality!🇬🇺:
‪#‎MarriageEquality‬ Reaches Guam, Where America’s Day Begins!

Read more: http://www.hrc.org/…/breaking-marriage-equality-reaches-gua…

In a historic win, marriage equality has reached Guam following a decision by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood at the U.S. District Court on Guam. The Pacific island of Guam now officially becomes the first U.S. territory where marriage equality is the law of the land.

Located just past the international date line, Guam is where America’s Day Begins & where momentum for marriage equality continues.

#‎MarriageMomentum‬ ‪#‎LoveCantWait‬ ‪#‎GuamaniansforEquality‬

Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día- Flower of the day 05/06/2015

“Não é possível conhecer o amor através da mente. O amor é a respiração da vida - é a fragrância do Divino. Para conhecê-lo é preciso correr o risco de abrir mão de todas as crenças e ideias a respeito dele, pois só é possível conhecer o amor amando.”

“No es posible conocer el amor a través de la mente. El amor es la respiración de la vida - es la fragancia de lo Divino. Para conocerlo es necesario correr el riesgo de soltar todas las creencias e ideas acerca de él, pues sólo es posible conocer el amor amando.”

It’s impossible to know love through the mind. Love is the breath of life: it is the fragrance of the Divine. In order to know love, we must take a risk and let go of all our beliefs and ideas about it, because it’s only possible to know love by loving.”

Today's Daily Dharma: The Happiness of Uncertainty


Image: Untitled (Mandala # 406), Bill Armstrong
The Happiness of Uncertainty

Part of the reason we try to understand the causes of our experience is that we believe we can make these experiences happen again. The problem is, understanding also makes the experience less valuable, because we adapt to it. It?s surprising things, uncertain things, things we don?t fully comprehend that seem to bring us the greatest and longest-lasting happiness.

- Daniel Gilbert, "The Pleasure Paradox"


Thursday, June 4, 2015

David Cross: Gay Voice


Via JMG: Hate Group Leader Kayla Moore Passes Along Fake Story About Hillary Clinton



 
This weekend Foundation For Moral Law head Kayla Moore will be headlining yet another anti-gay marriage rally in Alabama. In the meantime she's posted a fake news item about Hillary Clinton from a satire site.  


Reposted from Joe Jervis

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Via Yahoo News: Meet the plaintiff at the heart of a Supreme Court case that could legalize same-sex marriage nationwide

“What we're asking for is simply to be part of that same tradition of marriage where two people commit to each other and make those promises to love, protect and honor each other. How are we changing that? How are we harming that? We're just asking to do the same thing.”

Jim Obergefell is fired up. He’s the lead plaintiff in a case before the Supreme Court that this month could change gay rights in America forever. And in an exclusive interview with Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric, he explains why.