Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Via Tricycle

 Liberating Impermanence
By Kurt Spellmeyer

The Buddha taught that all things are impermanent—including the dharma itself. A Zen priest asks: How can we evolve the teachings while honoring their timeless wisdom? 
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Via Daily Dharma: Focus on Joy

 Even though it may seem counterintuitive, when you’re suffering, if you can focus on another person’s joy, you can share it, and that makes you feel better.

—Rick Heller, “Sympathetic Joy”

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Monday, October 5, 2020

#ProudBoys

 


Proud Boys: Far-right group becomes LGBT trend online

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54380656  

 

Twitter users take over Proud Boys hashtag with photos of LGBTQ love

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/proud-boys-twitter-hashtag-photos-lgbtq-love/

 

LGBT Twitter users tease far-right group by taking over Proud Boys hashtag 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/05/proud-boys-hashtag-lgbt-twitter-users

 

The Proud Boys were emboldened by Trump’s words. Then, LGBTQ couples reclaimed the group’s hashtag.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/05/proudboys-twitter-lgbtq-takei/

 

The Proud Boys hashtag has been brilliantly hijacked by the gay community

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/50657/1/the-proud-boys-hashtag-has-been-hijacked-by-the-gay-community

 

Proud Boys hashtag gets hijacked by LGBT+ community to drown out the racism with queer love

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/04/proud-boys-hashtag-hijacked-lgbt-community-donald-trump-hate-group-queer-love/

 

Gay men have taken over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtag

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/us/proud-boys-twitter-hashtag-gay-men-trnd/index.html

 

Proud Boys hashtag reclaimed by gay couples celebrating their relationships

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/519553-proud-boys-hashtag-reclaimed-by-gay-couples-celebrating-their

 

Gay men take over Proud Boys hashtag on Twitter 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/gay-men-take-over-proud-boys-hashtag-on-twitter/ar-BB19GQoj


Via Daily Dharma: Transforming Others

 Ordinary people just want life to be smooth, without problems. But Buddhist practitioners have a different attitude. They are ready to endure many difficulties if they are in the service of transforming others.

—Master Sheng-Yen, “The Wanderer”

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Thich Nhat Hanh

 



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Sunday, October 4, 2020

Via On the Media - WYNC : God Bless


( Diana Vargas / Unsplash )

President Trump has once more tried to cast himself as an ally of the Christian right — this time, by nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This week, On the Media explains how the religious right goes beyond white evangelicals and the persistent allure of persecution narratives in Christianity. Plus, we examine the overlooked religious left. And, we explore how the image of Jesus as a white man was popularized in the 20th century, and why it matters. 

1. Andrew Whitehead [@ndrewwhitehead], professor of sociology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, explains how Christian nationalism holds the religious right together. Listen.

2. Candida Moss [@candidamoss], professor of theology and religion at the University of Birmingham in the U.K., on how false claims of persecution date back centuries, to the early Christian church. Listen.

3. Jack Jenkins [@jackmjenkins], national reporter at Religion News Service, explains why the religious left is harder to define, and its influence more difficult to measure, than its right-wing counterpart. Listen.

4. OTM reporter Eloise Blondiau [@eloiseblondiau] examines how "White Jesus" came to America, how the image became ubiquitous, and why it matters. Listen.

 

Music from this week's show:

Ave Maria — Pascal Jean and Jean Brenders
Amazing Grace — Robert D. Sands, Jr.
I Got a Right to Sing the Blues — Billy Kyle
What’s That Sound? — Michael Andrews
Wade in the Water — Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
For the Creator — Hildegard von Bingen
Walking by Flashlight — Maria Schneider (The Thompson Fields)


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47 Famous Gay Couples You May Or May Not Know Are Together In 2020

The Kingdom of Shambhala (Joanna Macy)

Joanna Macy - The Shambhala Warrior Prophecy | Deep Ecology

Joanna Macy: A Wiser, Braver World — Awakened Action, Upaya Zen Center

Via One Earth Sangha // A Great Unveiling

 

The Buddha Akshobhya

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Via Daily Dharma: Make Meaning from Chores

 If I view [everyday chores] as tasks to rush through on the way to something more important, they become a crushing waste of time. But from the perspective of Buddhist teachings, each of these activities is a golden moment, an opportunity for full awakening.

—Anne Cushman, “Clearing Clutter”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 4, 2020 💌

 

One day in India, on my second stay, Maharaji said to me, "You don't have to change anybody; you just have to love them." In relationships, when the other person doesn't fit into your model of how heaven would be, you don't have to play God. You just have to love individual differences and appreciate them the way they are because love is the most powerful medicine. 

- Ram Dass -

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Via One Arth Sangha // Entering the Bardo


 Joanna Macy has previously spoken about “four R’s” of the Deep Adaptation movement: the four core values of resilience, relinquishment, restoration, and reconciliation that can help us find the seeds of new beginnings in the breakdown of industrial growth society. In this article, she continues to document the Great Unraveling, likening it to entering the bardo—the frightening transitional state of consciousness between death and re-birth so vividly portrayed in Tibetan Buddhism. The worsening wildfires, hurricanes, COVID outbreaks, and police violence certainly evoke the intensity and uncertainty of the bardo. But as always, she faces, and encourages us to face, our “cruel social and ecological realities” with courage and an unflinching gaze, while continuing to work towards the Great Turning to a life-sustaining civilization.

Joanna further explored these themes in a talk during Upaya Zen Center’s daylong program in June. Thanks to Upaya’s generosity, we share a video of this talk at the end of this article.

 

We are in a space without a map. With the likelihood of economic collapse and climate catastrophe looming, it feels like we are on shifting ground, where old habits and old scenarios no longer apply. In Tibetan Buddhism, such a space or gap between known worlds is called a bardo. It is frightening. It is also a place of potential transformation.

As you enter the bardo, there facing you is the Buddha Akshobhya. His element is Water. He is holding a mirror, for his gift is Mirror Wisdom, reflecting everything just as it is. And the teaching of Akshobhya’s mirror is this: Do not look away. Do not avert your gaze. Do not turn aside. This teaching clearly calls for radical attention and total acceptance.

 This article was originally published by Emergence Magazine and is republished here with permission.

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Via Daily Dharma: Creating Enlightenment

 “Enlightenment” isn’t a permanent state but the dynamic back-and-forth that we create with our intrinsic wisdom.

—Kurt Spellmeyer, “Liberating Impermanence”

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Friday, October 2, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Use Compassion to Protect Yourself

 Use compassion, not anger, to motivate you to protect yourself, and [have] compassion toward the person who’s giving you the trouble. Compassion rather than hate is what helps.

— Gelek Rinpoche, “What to Do When the Anger Gets Hot”

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Thursday, October 1, 2020

Via Lama Rod

 


October
Preparing Ourselves

Hello Everyone.

The world is unsteady and chaotic.

We are moving into an election that may very well determine the wellbeing of our lives and the lives of future generations. Many of us are being confronted with the reality of death and change in a way we thought we never would.

In the face of all this, resiliency is such an important skill to develop right now. Resiliency requires preparation. Resiliency is about how well we are able to meet the challenges of our lives with a sense of openness and curiosity that helps us to regain our balance.

Balance means understanding how to return back to a sense of being grounded in order to meet challenges directly.

Recently it was the Equinox. 

Symbolically, a time which calls for our relationship with the the earth to be deepened, as we are invited to descend into the deeper healing properties held by the earth. It’s a time to nurture our systems, privileging the comfort of our bodies, as night becomes longer and temperatures drop here in the Northern lands.

Community is like a body, it feels, it responds. 

It lives and grows.
Which is why it requires care.


I have included a selection of dates coming up this month...it's a full month for me, so for a full picture of practice dates and events, head over to my website, so we can practice together and take care of ourselves as we prepare and cultivate our collective resiliency.

Peace,
Lama Rod

Lamarodowens@gmail.com

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