Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Via Daily Dharma: Appreciating Complexity

 

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Appreciating Complexity

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through. It may be buried, obscured from view, hard to find, and hard to trust . . . but it is there.

Sharon Salzberg, “Real Love”


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Putting Spirituality First
Interview with Reverend Ken Yamada by Frederick M. Ranallo-Higgins
In this conversation with Reverend Ken Yamada we explore the life and teachings of Kiyozawa Manshi, a controversial Jodo Shinshu Buddhist and Higashi Honganju priest who emphasized spirituality over worldly concerns.
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The Wisdom of Equanimity in Global Crisis
With Lama Karma
Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Karma offers a dharma talk on equanimity as a facet of primordial wisdom, and the basis for an authentic response to both personal and global challenges.
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Via Writing as a Spiritual Practice

 

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Learn to Write from the Heart in our newest Online Course! 
Do you enjoy creative writing? Are you hoping to or do you already use writing as a tool on your spiritual path? Perhaps you don’t have any experience with writing but are interested in learning how to utilize it on your path to expression and flourishing. 

If any of that resonates with you then our newest online course might be the perfect fit! We’re thrilled to introduce our newest Tricycle online course beginning March 25, 2024, Writing as a Spiritual Practice led by Zen teacher Sallie Tisdale. 
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What does writing as a spiritual practice mean? 

First it means learning to write from the place in which spiritual work happens. This means cultivating an attitude of open heartedness, curiosity, wonder, and fearlessness. 

Second it means creating work that brings expression to those qualities. Human beings have always found ways to express the path of seeking and wonder and these expressions often have much to teach. This class includes a number of examples of spiritual expression and prompts for creating your own.

This course will offer you the chance to: 
  • Bring more creativity to your path
  • Confront deep questions and celebrate fragile beauties
  • Overcome self-censorship by using writing as an act of liberation
  • Seek wholeness in self-expression and open to the joy and freedom that follows
  • Share and celebrate your work with like-minded people
  • Receive feedback and guidance on your work from teacher and expert guide Sallie Tisdale 

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Monday, February 12, 2024

Via GBF: "Navigating Missteps in Our Relationships" with René Rivera

How do we bring our practice into the difficult moments of relationships with others? Can we learn from these and approach them with curiosity and presence as an opportunity to grow?

René Rivera looks at the ways our practice can help us become more aware of when our words or behaviors generate conflict. He shares his approach to mend these transgressions, including: 

  1. Be present with ourselves. Pause and focus on the sensations and emotions we feel when we make a mistake, such as shame, anger, or frustration. 
  2. Open to the other person. Turn with curiosity to understanding the other person, such as acknowledging what has been said and being open to feedback.
  3. Seek to repair the damage; make amends sooner rather than later. 

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - February 11, 2024 💌

 

Either you do it like it’s a big weight on you, or you do it as part of the dance. When you understand the thought is the thought of the thoughtless, your singing and dancing is no other than the voice of the dharma. Singing and dancing - insurance, savings accounts, jobs, responsibilities - Shiva’s dance of life. Do you do from ‘ugh’ or do it like ‘ah?’ Do you surf through it all, or do you carry it around like it's a load? 

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From Ram Dass Here & Now Podcast - Episode 23 - Shiva's Dance of Life

Via Daily Dharma: Transforming Through Discomfort

 

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Transforming Through Discomfort

If we never work with uncomfort, we can never transform.

Scott Tusa, “Cultivating Boundless Equanimity” 


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It’s Not Too Late
Rebeca Solnit in Conversation with James Shaheen and Sharon Salzberg
Rebeca Solnit is determined to change the narrative of despair in the face of the climate crisis. In this piece, Solnit explores the dangers of hyperindividualism, the spiritual power of renunciation, and why she believes that beauty is an essential piece of activist work. 
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The Wisdom of Equanimity in Global Crisis
With Lama Karma
Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Karma offers a dharma talk on equanimity as a facet of primordial wisdom, and the basis for an authentic response to both personal and global challenges.
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: The Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

 


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RIGHT VIEW
Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering
And what is the way leading to the cessation of suffering? It is just this noble eightfold path: that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. (MN 9)

Having heard the Dhamma and trusting the Buddha, one undertakes a commitment to perfect their ethical behavior. (DN 2)
Reflection
The first step along the path of transformation and healing laid out by the Buddha is not meditation but the cultivation of improved ethical behavior. The practice is to purify your mind of some of the most harmful mental and emotional toxins that obstruct the ability to quiet the mind. This can only be done by making a commitment to a healthier course of action and will in itself greatly contribute to the cessation of suffering. 

Daily Practice
Make a commitment to improving or even perfecting your ethical behavior as a living and active practice. Choose to work toward being a better person, toward treating others with greater care and respect, and toward being truthful and trustworthy. Ethical behavior is not only the result of meditation and wisdom but also the cause of them. As wisdom grows it becomes easier to behave ethically, but you need to begin such behavior on day one.

Tomorrow: Cultivating Equanimity
One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering

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Via White Crane Institute \\ Harry Hay and the American Labor Movement

 

Today's Gay Wisdom
2018 -

TODAY'S GAY WISDOM

 Harry Hay and the American Labor Movement

In 1934, Harry Hay attended the legendary Longshoreman's Strike in San Francisco, known as the San Francisco General Strike, to perform agit-prop theatre with his lover, actor Will Geer. During one of their performances, bullets rang out as the National Guard opened fire on the workers. Several workers were killed in that melee, but more would be killed before the government's crackdown on the strike ended. The strike culminated with a funeral march on Market Street, San Francisco's main street, which was the largest public demonstration to take place in its day.

Harry became active in the Communist Party the previous year, drawn to it through his relationship with actor Will Geer. (Geer would go on to entertain millions weekly as Grandpa Walton on the television series The Waltons.) Like many artists and intellectuals of the time, Harry & Geer were drawn to the Communist Party because they witnessed the economic devastation of America's Great Depression that began in 1929. Millions were out of work, starving and homeless, and economic recovery would not occur until America entered the Second World War in 1941.

Union organizing was often brutally suppressed during this the first half of the twentieth century, in fact, some were outlawed. Harry's Communist Party Section Organizer, Miriam Sherman "saw countless numbers of my friends beaten and clubbed on picket lines," and thought she would die on the barricades. But such fears did not stop countless organizers like Harry who went out to fight for those who had no rights. According to Frank Pestana, a labor organizer and lawyer from the period, "The objectives of the Communist Party were objectives that have been realized today and are part of what we live with. They were fighting for workmen's comp, job security, medical care, all the things that we know and have now. Social security was a dream that they were pushing."

In 1935 Harry and Geer went to the San Joaquin Valley to organize migratory workers. Like the United Farm Workers, headed by Caesar Chavez three decades later, they fought for fair wages, decent housing conditions, health care and education for children. Harry also became involved with the Hollywood Film and Photo League. Over the course of the next three years Harry worked on a variety of progressive causes including EPIC, Upton Sinclair's End Poverty in California campaign, Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and Workers Alliance of America.

In 1938 Harry met his wife, Anita Platsky, on the picket lines of a dockworkers strike. As tireless activists, they documented the poor housing conditions in Los Angeles for the Communist Party newspaper People's World. Through the Second World War, Harry remained active in many political causes including the Theater Arts Committee for Peace and Democracy, Russian War Relief, and the New Theater League.

Harry continued his labor activism until his death in 2002, sometimes working with and speaking to gay and lesbian labor groups. In 2001 he was awarded a lifetime membership in the Industrial Workers of the World.


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