Thursday, October 21, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Deepening Our Equanimity

 

In the deepest forms of insight, we see that things change so quickly that we can’t hold onto anything, and eventually the mind lets go of clinging. Letting go brings equanimity; the greater the letting go, the deeper the equanimity.

—Sayadaw U Pandita, “​​A Perfect Balance”

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: The Wisdom of Openness

 

When we are open, we see that essentially everything belongs because it simply is what it is, even our reactivity. We notice that when we actually see and understand something, it drops away.

—Laura Bridgman and Gavin Milne, “Our Inner Threat”

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Saturday, October 16, 2021

Via White Crane Institute // Today's Gay Wisdom

 




2017 -

The Wit of Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A true friend stabs you in the front.


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Via Daily Dharma: What Is Renunciation?

 

Renunciation isn’t about taking monastic vows or exchanging your Tempur-Pedic mattress for a pallet; it’s about the wisdom to realize that holding on to anything impermanent only brings sorrow.

—Joan Duncan Oliver, “Pocket Paramis: Renunciation, Nekkhamma

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Friday, October 15, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Transform Your World

 

The bigger our heart is, the more permeable the structure of our self, and the more we can think beyond our self-interest. Slowly, our world transforms into a place all of us, as people on the planet, can feel at home.

—Radhule Weininger, “How to Follow the Bodhisattva Path Without Burning Out”

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Via Daily Dharma: Life Is Not Personal


Reminding myself that life is not personal, permanent, or perfect has kept me from falling into sinkholes of despair and destroying rooms with rage. It invites me to pause and turn inward.

—Ruth King, “Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter”

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Via White Crane Institute // VIRGIL

 


This Day in Gay History

October 15

Born
Virgil
0070 BCE -

VIRGIL, Roman poet, born; the author of epics in three modes: the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics and the substantially completed Aeneid, the last being an epic poem in the heroic mode, which comprised twelve books (as opposed to 24 in each of the epic poems by Homer) and became the Roman Empire’s national epic.  

In themes the ten eclogues develop and vary epic song, relating it first to Roman power, then to love, both homosexual (ecl. 2) and panerotic (ecl. 3), then again to Roman power and Caesar's heir imagined as authorizing Virgil to surpass Greek epic and refound tradition, shifting back to love then as a dynamic source considered apart from Rome. Hence in the remaining eclogues Virgil withdraws from his newly minted Roman mythology and gradually constructs a new myth of his own poetics: he casts the remote Greek region of Arcadia, home of the god Pan, as the place of poetic origin itself.

In passing he again rings changes on erotic themes, such as requited and unrequited homosexual and heterosexual passion, tragic love for elusive women or magical powers of song to retrieve an elusive male. He concludes by establishing  Arcadia as a poetic ideal that still resonates in Western literature and visual arts. Since Virgil depicted his hero Aeneus seeking advice from his father Anchises in the underworld, Dante Alighieri made the shade of Virgil his own guide for his pilgrimage through the inferno and part of purgatory in his own epic poem The Divine Comedy.

 

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 13, 2021 💌

 

If I can see a soul that happens to have incarnated into a person that I don’t care for, then my consciousness becomes an environment in which they are free to come up from air if they want to.    

That person can do so because I’m not trying to keep them locked into being the person that they have become. It’s liberating to resist another person politically, yet still see them as another soul.    

Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. 

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Via Daily Dharma: Finding Practice

 

Practice needs to be weaved into the fabric of our lives so that every moment and place is an opportunity for practice and progression.

—Rev. Grace Song, “Zen All Day”

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Enjoying the Mystery

 

Spiritual transformation, like love, is not a matter for abstract reason and analysis. It partakes of mystery, of unpredictability, or grace.

—Lewis Richmond, “Enlightenment Needs a Minyan”

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Monday, October 11, 2021

Via White Crane Institute // NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY

 


Original Keith Haring Poster for National Coming Out Day 1988
1988 -

NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY -- National Coming Out Day was founded by Robert Eichberg and Jean O'Leary on October 11, 1988 in celebration of the first Gay march on Washington D.C. a year earlier. The purpose of the march and of National Coming Out Day is to promote government and public awareness of Gay, bisexual, Lesbian and transgender rights and to celebrate homosexuality. National Coming Out Day is a time to publicly display Gay pride. Many choose this day to come out to their parents, friends, co-workers and themselves.


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Via LQBTQ Nation // Astronaut Sally Ride will be the first out LGBTQ person on United States currency

 


Via Acesso ao Insight // Bansky

 

Se não podemos mudar o mundo,
podemos mudar a nossa atitude em relação ao mundo
Arte: Bansky

Via Daily Dharma: Finding Determination

When you admit to yourself, “I must make this change to be more happy”—not because the Buddha said so, but because your heart recognized a deep truth—you must devote all your energy to making the change. You need strong determination to overcome harmful habits.


—Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “Getting Started”

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Sunday, October 10, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Turn On Your Light

 

Simply by turning on the light, you can instantly destroy the darkness. Likewise, even a rather simple analysis of ego-clinging and afflictive emotions can make them collapse.

—Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “An Investigation of the Mind”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 10, 2021 💌


 


When we have the compassion that comes from understanding how it is, we don't lay a trip on anybody else as to how they ought to be. We don't say to our parents, "Why don't you understand about the spirit and why I'm a vegetarian?" We don't say to our husband or wife, "Why do you still want sex when all I want to do is read The Gospel of Ramakrishna?"

A conscious being does all that he or she can to create a space for being with God but does no violence to the existing karma to do it.

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Saturday, October 9, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Real Kindness

 

Kindness doesn’t mean just being nice or pretending like you care. Cultivating kindness means opening your heart, with patience and attention, to your painful feelings—and to other people’s painful feelings.

—Kimberly Brown, “Be Kind, Not Just Nice”

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Via FB // Fans of John Shelby Spong

 


Friday, October 8, 2021

Four myths about Zen Buddhism’s “Mu Koa

 

Four myths about Zen Buddhism’s “Mu Koan”