Saturday, June 12, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Knowing Your Buddhanature

Our buddha nature is never separate from our minds for even a single instant. We are not apart from it [even if] we do not know it.


—Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, “Taking Your Future Into Your Own Hands”

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Via Tricycle // Kyoto Temple Plans Outer Space Location

 


Kyoto Temple Plans Outer Space Location
By Karen Jensen
A Shingon Buddhist temple has bold plans to go where no temple has gone before.
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Via Tricycle // Celebrating Buddhism’s Inclusivity

 

Celebrating Buddhism’s Inclusivity
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
Happy Pride Month! Celebrate Buddhism’s spirit of inclusivity and the path to equality with these eight essays and articles from the Tricycle archives.
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Via Daily Dharma: Cultivating Mindful Listening

 

Deep listening is a practice of deep connection. Cultivating the ability to listen in relationship takes a healthy dose of self-awareness. As in the practice of mindfulness of sound, you are training to remain peaceably with whatever you hear or feel in the moment.

—Pamela Gayle White, “Simply Hear, Simply Here”

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Knowing Your Boundaries

Preserving yourself and knowing your boundaries is not the same thing as exclusively seeking your own happiness. It’s about the healing process of learning to skillfully discern what will and will not serve all beings, yourself included.

—Pilar Jennings, “Boundaries Make Good Bodhisattvas”

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Obama criticizes Republicans for embracing 2020 falsehoods

Via Daily Dharma: Why Are We Unhappy?

We all seek happiness, but I believe that we are already surrounded by happiness. The teachings of the Buddha have taught me that everything is neutral and perfect in its own way. 

—Reverend Earl Ikeda, “The Bird’s Song”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 9, 2021 💌

 



The predicament with loving is the power of the addiction of the practice of loving somebody, of getting so caught in the relationship that you can’t ever arrive at essence of dwelling in love. Imagine that you are cut off in your heart from love, so you feel hungry. What that hunger is, is the hunger to come home, to be at peace, to be feeling at one in the universe, where lover and Beloved merge. It’s the place to feel fulfilled, fully in the moment.  - Ram Dass -
 

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Via Lion’s Roar // LGBTQ Buddhism

 

LGBTQ Buddhists: Teachings, Profiles, and Conversations

A collection of teachings from, profiles on, and conversations with LGBTQ folks in Buddhism.
 

Via LGBTQ Nation // A school sent a boy to a psychologist for wearing a skirt so male teachers wore them in solidarity

 

 

 

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Via White Crane Institute -- KENNETH LEWES

 


Psychologist Kenneth Lewes
1943 -

KENNETH LEWES was an Renaissance scholar who became a psychologist who went on toe question modern psychoanalysis of homosexuality. He was born on this date and grew up in a post-World War II working-class neighborhood of the northeast Bronx, the son of an immigrant couple who never got beyond grade school. He guessed even before he entered junior high school that he was gay.

But it wasn’t until he was nearly 50 — and publishing what would become a critically acclaimed takedown of post-Freudian psychoanalytic theories of homosexuality — that he confided his sexual orientation to his parents.

“I remember finding my way to the local public library and checking out books on psychology and human development,” he said in an interview in 2019 with the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, “in hopes of finding some reassurance that my interest in handsome boys was only a stage that I would soon pass through.”

Dr. Lewes was married at 23 and divorced by 32 — the age when he had his first homosexual experience. “It seemed only natural for me to be out of the closet to my friends, colleagues and family,” he said, “with the important exception of my parents, who, it had become clear over the years, did not want to hear anything on that particular subject. I came out to them almost 15 years later.”

Dr. Lewes’s major work, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality  (1988), traced the evolution of the prevailing view that homosexuality was a curable illness and explored what he called the psychoanalytic establishment’s “century-long history of homophobia.” The book’s title was changed to Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality in later editions.

Drawing on some 500 primary sources, Dr. Lewes’s book, which expanded on his doctoral dissertation, found that most analysts had adhered to “popular prejudice” against gay people and clichés about them. “Many analysts,” he concluded, “have violated basic norms of decency in their treatment of homosexuals.”

He said he had been unable to find a single analysis of the subject written by a psychoanalyst who identified as gay.

Dr. Lewes found that the Oedipus complex could lead to 12 alternative resolutions, six of them heterosexual and six homosexual. “All results of the Oedipus complex are traumatic,” he wrote, “and, for similar reasons, all are ‘normal.’”