Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Vua GayStarNews: Canada to accept gay refugees from Syria

ISIS have executed dozens of gay men in Iraq and Syria

Canada to accept gay refugees from Syria

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Canada will accept 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February with priority given to families, vulnerable women, gay men, lesbians and LGBTI people.

Tuesday’s (24 November) announcement comes after it was reported that the government would not accept single young men as they could pose a security risk.

But the government has now said it will sponsor gay men and those who identify as members of the LGBTI community, according CBC News.

‘The government is aware that gays could be persecuted, and therefore plans to include them in the selection process aimed at rescuing some of the region’s most vulnerable refugees,’ the Ottawa Citizen reported.

Over the last year, ISIS has executed dozens of men accused of being gay in its controlled areas of Iraq and Syria.

‘We have a responsibility to significantly expand our refugee targets and give more victims of war a safe haven in Canada,’ said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

‘The resettling of vulnerable refugees is a clear demonstration of this. While our plan is ambitious, it reflects Canada’s commitment to share responsibility and offer protection to those who need it. 

Canada must once again be regarded as the compassionate, generous country we’ve always been.’

Canada has already accepted 3,089 Syrian refugees, and will invest up to $678 million over the next six years toward resettling and integrating the 25,000 new arrivals.

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Via Sri Prem Baba: Sri Prem Baba participará do TEDxSãoPaulo


Olá Amigos! 


Amanha 26/11 às 19h | Sri Prem Baba participará do TEDxSãoPaulo

Os ingressos já estão esgotados mas todo o evento será transmitido ao vivo através do link: http://livestream.com/tedx
 

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Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day 25/11/2015

“A educação pública deveria oferecer mais espaço para as crianças se expressarem. Na maioria das vezes, tanto na escola como em casa, a criança não tem a chance de se expressar como precisa, especialmente no que diz respeito a sentimentos de natureza sombria. Criança também sente raiva, inveja, culpa... Mas não aprende a lidar com isso e geralmente é reprimida. Um dos grandes obstáculos é a religião horizontal que exige que a criança seja boazinha e não admite a existência da maldade. A criança reprime esses aspectos sombrios e isso cria uma série de dificuldades que perduram até a vida adulta. Portanto, um espaço para a criança elaborar esses assuntos é muito importante.”

“La educación pública debería ofrecer más espacio para que los niños se expresen. La mayoría de las veces, tanto en la escuela como en casa, el niño no tiene la oportunidad de expresarse como necesita, especialmente en lo que respecta a sentimientos de naturaleza sombría. El niño también siente rabia, envidia, culpa... Pero no aprende a lidiar con eso y generalmente es reprimido. Uno de los grandes obstáculos es la religión horizontal que exige que el niño sea buenito y no admite la existencia de la maldad. El niño reprime esos aspectos sombríos y eso crea una serie de dificultades que perduran hasta la vida adulta. Por lo tanto, un espacio para que el niño pueda elaborar esos asuntos es muy importante.”

“Public schooling ought to offer more room for children to express themselves. In most cases in school as well as at home, children aren’t given the opportunity to express themselves as they need to, especially when it comes to saying anything regarding feelings from their shadowy nature. Children also feel anger, jealousy, guilt and so forth, but they don't learn how to deal with these feelings and they are generally repressed. One of our great obstacles are horizontal religions, as they demand that children be good and don’t fess up to the existence of evil. Children repress these shadowy aspects and this creates a series of challenges that last through their adult life. That's why it's so important for children to have the space to elaborate on these issues.”

Via LionsRoar: A Future Is Possible by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Photo by Paul Davis.


When we see people living mindfully, smiling and behaving in a loving manner, we gain confidence in our future.

There’s a lot of suffering in the world, and it’s important for us to stay in touch with this suffering in order to be compassionate. But to remain strong, we also need to embrace the positive elements. When we see a group of people living mindfully, smiling and behaving in a loving manner, we gain confidence in our future. When we practice mindful breathing, smiling, resting, walking, and working, we become a positive element in society, and we will inspire confidence in everyone around us. This is the way to avoid allowing despair to overwhelm us. It is also the way to help the younger generation so they don’t lose hope. It’s very important that we live our daily lives in such a way as to demonstrate that a future is possible.

To bring about real change in our global ecological situation our efforts must be collective and harmonious, based on love and respect for ourselves and each other, our ancestors, and future generations. If anger at injustice is what we use as the source of our energy, we may do something harmful, something we will later regret. According to Buddhism, compassion is the only source of energy that is useful and safe. With compassion your energy is born from insight; it’s not blind energy. Just feeling compassion is not enough; we have to learn to express it. That is why love must always go together with understanding. Understanding and insight show us how to act.

Adapted from The World We Have. Look inside the January issue of the Shambhala Sun, dedicated to the life and teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh. For a limited time, use this link to subscribe and start your subscription with this special issue (U.S. subscribers only).

Today's Daily Dharma: Arising and Subsiding

Arising and Subsiding
In the eternal scheme of things, we all sacrifice our lives, whether we are awake to this fact or not. This vast interdependence, in which the disappearance of one thing paves the way for the appearance of another, is the essence of life itself.
—Clark Strand, "The Wisdom of Frogs"
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

VIa Aniabal - Obrigado!


Gayatri Mantra 108 Times With Lyrics - Chanting By Brahmins - Peaceful Chant




Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ 
tát savitúr váreṇyaṃ 
bhárgo devásya dhīmahi 
dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt

Via JMG: Pew Research: White Christians No Longer A Majority

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Pew Research: White Christians No Longer A Majority

Politico reports:
White Christians now make up less than half of the U.S. population, largely receding from the majorities of most demographic groups, with one notable exception: the Republican Party. According to the latest results from Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape survey published Monday by National Journal’s Next America project, just 46 percent of American adults are white Christians, down from 55 percent in 2007.
At the same time, according to the report, the share of white Christians identifying as Republican has remained steady, even equal with the share of the party that carried President Ronald Reagan to his 1984 reelection. Nearly seven in 10 white Christians — 69 percent — identify with or lean toward the GOP, while just 31 percent do the same with Democrats.
More from the National Journal:
Even as White Chris­ti­ans shrink in their over­all num­bers, they still ac­count for nearly sev­en-in-10 Amer­ic­ans who identi­fy with, or lean to­ward, the Re­pub­lic­an Party, the Pew study found. White Chris­ti­ans, in fact, rep­res­ent as large a share of the Re­pub­lic­an co­ali­tion today as they did of Amer­ic­an so­ci­ety over­all in 1984, when Ron­ald Re­agan won reelec­tion. A clear ma­jor­ity of all White Chris­ti­ans across the United States now identi­fy as Re­pub­lic­an, Pew found.
In sharp con­trast, the Pew data show, the Demo­crat­ic co­ali­tion has evolved in­to a three-legged stool that di­vides al­most evenly between White Chris­ti­ans, non-White Chris­ti­ans, and those from all races who identi­fy either with a non-Chris­ti­an faith or, in­creas­ingly, with no re­li­gious tra­di­tion at all. Most Amer­ic­ans who don’t identi­fy with any re­li­gious faith – a rap­idly grow­ing group—now align with Demo­crats.


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Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day 24/11/2015

“Você está aqui para aprender a dirigir o seu veículo, o corpo. A mente é parte do corpo. Se o veículo anda sem condutor, inevitavelmente encontra um poste ou um abismo. Se a mente não tem condutor, ela é conduzida por impulsos inconscientes.Conduzir o veículo significa escolher quando e para onde você vai.Essa é uma metáfora para o estado de equanimidade mental gerado pela presença. Isso só é possível quando você pode ocupar o seu corpo.”

“Estás aquí para aprender a manejar tu vehículo, el cuerpo. La mente es parte del cuerpo. Si el vehículo anda sin conductor, inevitablemente encuentra un poste o un abismo. Si la mente no tiene conductor, es conducida por impulsos inconscientes. Conducir el vehículo significa elegir cuándo y para dónde vas. Esta es una metáfora para el estado de ecuanimidad mental generado por la presencia. Esto solo es posible cuando puedes ocupar tu cuerpo.”

“You are here to learn how to drive your vehicle, which is your body. The mind is a part of the body. If the vehicle moves without a driver, it will inevitably drive into a light post, or worse,down a cliff. If the mind doesn’t have a driver, it is conducted by unconscious impulses. Driving a vehicle means deciding when and where you want to go. This is a metaphor for the state of mental equanimity generated by presence. This is only possible when you are able to occupy your body.”

Via Lion's Roar: Orginal Caligraphy of Thich Nhat Hanh

Today's Daily Dharma: Two Aspects of the Path

Two Aspects of the Path
The spiritual path consists of two aspects: seeing beyond the limited self and refining the limited self. As you move along this path, you have to consistently attend to both.
—Shinzen Young, "The Point of Contact"
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