When
I have a problem that comes to me, I’m not looking for the solution in
something other than the problem itself. Actually, the problem can be
the solution.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in conversation with Helen Tworkov, “Mingyur
Rinpoche on Overcoming Panic and Finding Joy Through Acceptance”
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A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Searching for Solutions
Friday, December 16, 2022
Via Buddhist Global Relief // A New Year Retreat: Anchoring Our Lives in the Dharma
Like a raindrop joining with others to become a river, your generosity joins with that of others to become the gift of hope for those in need. So your act of compassion may provide food to a hungry child in Mongolia or Haiti or Cameroon; a scholarship for an impoverished young woman in India or Cambodia; and desperately needed aid to thousands of other people around the world. What a beautiful example of the interconnection of all beings!
As we prepare to welcome the new year, we recommit together to building a world in which all children have enough to eat, all people are blessed with peace, justice, and the fulfillment of their material needs, and all of the Earth’s inhabitants collaborate in protecting the delicate web of life and the natural environment that sustains us.
Please join us on the evening of January 6 for a special New Year blessing ceremony, and all day on January 7, as Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi leads us in meditation, learning, and reflection to welcome in the new year. He is joined by Dassanāya Buddhist Community founder Ayyā Dhammadīpa; Roshi Joan Hoeberichts of Heart Circle Sangha; and Uganda Buddhist Center founder and abbot Bhante Buddharakkita in an online retreat, “Anchoring Our Lives in the Dharma.”
There is no cost for the retreat, but all donations given will benefit Buddhist Global Relief. Please give as your means allow. Your generous contribution will support BGR’s work to feed the hungry, to educate children in need, to support sustainable agriculture, and to empower vulnerable women.
Come together in the work of conscientious compassion at:
buddhistglobalrelief.org
Buddhist Global Relief (BGR) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Gifts are deductible to the full extent allowable under IRS regulations. |
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures
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Vai Daily Dharma: The Nature of Thoughts
If
we examine thoughts in depth, we cannot find anything truly existing in
them. Under scrutiny, they vanish like a big heap of grass set ablaze.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “An Investigation of the Mind”
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Via White Crane Institute // Today's Gay Wisdom
The Wisdom of George Santayana
- Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
- History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
- Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
- Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
- The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
- Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
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Thursday, December 15, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: The Two Sides of Purification
From
one side, we do the work of purifying ourselves, but with the
motivation that it be for the welfare and benefit of all. And from the
other side, even as we practice putting others before ourselves, we
understand this as being part of our own path of purification.
Joseph Goldstein, “Skillful Means For Liberation”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Mental Action
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Via Daily Dharma: Giving Without Expectation
If we give as best we can without the feeling of needing compensation, we feel the wisdom of interconnection and interbeing.
Joshua Bee Alafia, “Cultivating the Courage to Be Generous”
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Via White Crane Institute // Aunt Bee
This Day in Gay History | ||
December 14Born
1902 -
FRANCES BAVIER (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American stage and television actress born on this date (d: 1989); Originally from New York theatre, Bavier worked in film and television from the 1950s until the 1970s. She is best known for her role of Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. from 1960 to 1970. Aunt Bee logged more Mayberry years (ten) than any other character. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actress for the role in 1967. Bavier was additionally known for playing Amy Morgan on It's a Great Life (1954-1956). Bavier had roles in more than a dozen films, as well as playing a range of supporting roles on television. Career highlights include her turn as Mrs. Barley in the classic 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. In 1955, she played the rough and tough "Aunt Maggie" Sawtelle, a frontier Ma Barker-type character, in the Lone Ranger episode "Sawtelle's Saga End". In 1957, she played Nora Martin, mother of Eve Arden's character on The Eve Arden Show, despite the fact that Arden was less than six years younger than Bavier. That same year, Bavier guest-starred in the eighth episode of Perry Mason as Louise Marlow in "The Case of the Crimson Kiss". She was in the episode of Make Room for Daddy, which launched the characters of "Andy Taylor," with Andy Griffith and Ron Howard as "Opie Taylor." She played a character named Henrietta Perkins. The episode introduced The Andy Griffith Show, and Bavier was cast in the role of Aunt Bee. Bavier had a love-hate relationship with her famous role during the run of the show. As a New York City actress, she felt her dramatic talents were being overlooked, yet after playing Bee for eight seasons, she was the only original cast member to remain with the series in the spin-off, Mayberry R.F.D., for two additional seasons. Bavier was easily offended on the set of The Andy Griffith Show and the production staff took a cautious approach when communicating with her. Series star Andy Griffith once admitted the two sometimes clashed during the series run. On a 2003 appearance on Larry King Live, Griffith said Bavier phoned him four months before she died and apologized for being "difficult" during the series run. Bavier confessed in an interview with Bill Ballard for Carolina Camera that "it is very difficult for an actress ... to create a role and to be so identified that you as a person no longer exist and all the recognition you get is for a part that is created on the screen." While the character of "Aunt Bee" was thought of as “everyone’s aunt” by fans, off the set, Bavier was a far different personality than the woman that she portrayed on television. Her being a lesbian was an open secret to the Andy Griffith Show cast and crew, and in Hollywood gay circles. She dated some women but passed them off as “good friends”. In that era, an actor could never really be candid about their sexuality. "Aunt Bee" might have been a gentle soul, a woman who was primarily focused on the kitchen, but in real life, the actor who played her was a fierce, driven career woman. |8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8 Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute "With the increasing commodification of gay news, views, and culture by powerful corporate interests, having a strong independent voice in our community is all the more important. White Crane is one of the last brave standouts in this bland new world... a triumph over the looming mediocrity of the mainstream Gay world." - Mark Thompson Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989! |8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8|O|8
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Harsh Speech
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