Via Daily Dharma / October 24, 2016: Wise Eyes

When we turn diligence into an intellectual process, we end up feeling exhausted by the intensity of the obligation. But if we just respond the way the eyelid responds to a dry eye, then the work of peace naturally arises out of our innate wisdom and compassion.

—Sensei Bonnie Myotai Treace, "Rising to the Challenge: Filling the Well with Snow"

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Via Daily Dharma / October 23, 2016: Zen Janitor

Zen plays the role of janitor in my religious life, and if my understanding of Zen (pardon the expression) is right, that is a compliment. The Zen I know pulls the rug out from anything I land on as the truth and blissfully blows away dangerous moments of intelligence and understanding.

—Thomas Moore, "Zen Catholic"

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Via Daily Dharma / October 22, 2016: What’s Going Right

I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong. They do not touch enough on what is not wrong. . . . Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and to see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

—Thich Nhat Hanh, "Interbeing with Thich Nhat Hanh: An Interview"

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Via Daily Dharma / October 21, 2016: Meditation in the Moment

By witnessing how we are, in our body, heart, and mind, we become armed with the necessary information needed to respond thoughtfully and with care.

—Jill Satterfield, "Meditation in Motion"

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Via Daily Dharma / October 20, 2016: Dharma for Everyone

It does not matter whether you are a man or woman, young or old, a monk or a layperson. The treasury of the true dharma eye and subtle mind of nirvana is anybody, everybody!

—Maezumi Roshi, "Appreciate Your Life"

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Via : 50 Groups/Individuals Jesus Says You Can Hate

After hours of bible study, and in a cultural climate where there is a lot of discussion surrounding who should be welcome or not, who is morally qualified or not, who should be elected (or not), appointed (or not), hired (or not), or embraced (or not), I’ve curated a comprehensive list of all the people Jesus has said it was okay for us not to love, serve, forgive, and show mercy toward.
 
In other words, you have Scriptural permission to hate, cast out, demonize, distance yourself from, and hold grudges against all of the following fifty groups or individuals. You don’t have to be kind to them, serve them, or even associate with them. You have Biblical mandate to talk badly about them, condemn them, and wish failure upon them. Hyperventilate online about them. Scoff. Scorn. Scold. They’re all fair game–the whole list–according to the Lord.

Without further ado, here’s a comprehensive list of 50 Groups/Individuals Jesus Says You Can Hate:

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“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.” Jesus, Matthew 5:43-45, emphasis mine, but I think Jesus would be okay with it.

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Via Attitude: UN calls for worldwide decriminalisation of homosexuality The report says that LGBT people face “violent abuse... and discrimination” in all regions.

A new United Nations (UN) report has called for laws criminalising consensual same-sex sexual activity to be repealed around the world.

In the new report, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein has said that LGBT people are victims of “pervasive violent abuse, harassment and discrimination” in all regions of the world, citing hundreds of hate-related killings, the Guardian reports.
 
Mr al-Hussein added that, while progress has been made since the UN’s historic first report into the rights LGBT people globally in 2011, the gains had been overshadowed by continued state-sponsored persecution and attacks made against them.

It states that in 2012 alone, 310 documented murders occured in Brazil “in which homophobia or transphobia was a motive”, while the trans murder monitoring project listed 1,612 murders in 62 countries between 2008 and 2014.

According to the report, at least 76 countries retain anti-gay laws used to criminalise and persecute people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

The report made 24 recommendations, calling for all state worldwide to decriminalise consenting same-sex activity between adults, ban ‘gay cure’ therapy and the forced sterilization of trans people, and to enact legisaltion to protect LGBT people from hate speech and discrimination.

It also called on states to give legal recognition to same-sex couples and their children  -implying, but not stating, equal marriage – as well as providing age-appropriate sex education to all, guaranteeing asylum for any LGBTI people whose lives may be in danger due to their sexuality, and eding forced enital and anal examinations to ‘prove’ whether someone is LGBT.
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Anam Thubten grew up writing poems in his native Tibetan language, following in the tradition in Tibetan Buddhism of Doha or Songs of Realization that express nonconceptual themes like the great emptiness, the unconditioned, boundless love, ecstatic devotion. Since coming to the west, his poems have taken on a new flavor, while still exploring the bitter as well as the sweet flavor of the ordinary and extraordinary truth of human life.  In the mid 1990's Anam Thubten shared a stage with Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco as seen in this photograph from Marc Olmstead.