There’s now a short survey looking at the sense of community within the trans community. A sense of community is tied to everything from one’s overall wellbeing to the efficacy of health interventions. In fact, community is so important, the APA has a specific division focusing exclusively on community psychology. For more info on this […]
Poem: “Fix” by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, from No Heaven. Fix The puzzled ones, the Americans, go through their lives Buying what they are told to buy, Pursuing their love affairs with the automobile, Baseball and football, romance and beauty, Enthusiastic as trained seals, going into debt, struggling — True believers in liberty, and also security, And […]
What is SO COOL about this photo is that this is a photo of the dark part of the sky. If you look at your fingernail and take 1/10th of its size and use that measurement when you look at the darkest part of the night sky – the dark part that looks like there is absolutly nothing there – this is what you’d find: 7,500 galaxies
have a old drunk that lives above me. I like him and we talk from time to time. So, I came straight home after the meeting last night. When I pulled into the parking lot, I noticed that he was stumbling around outside his front door. I thought to myself that he must be drunk again. So, I parked the car and walked to the trunk of the car to get my bag out. Normally, I keep my work bag in the car but for some reason, I chose to put it in the trunk when I got out to go to the Thursday Social.
I was wasting some time and stopped by nordstrom.com, saw this and thought it was so funny that I had to take a screenshot. Anyway, I thought I would share this with you all: So what is so interesting about this page you might ask? Irony says I! “Samsara” is the Buddhist term for the state […]
Since I’m a Buddhist, I like hearing Dharma talks and since I listened to the following talk, I’m thinking about my primary beliefs and where they came from. In Buddhism, one of the main ideas is that one should never accept anything upon faith. No holy teachings, no teacher and no philosophy should ever be […]
Thomas Paine – the man who came up with the name, “United States of America” and who is arguably the founding father of America and of the age of American enlightenment – has largely been forgotten by the people who benefited from his courage, charisma, logic and rhetoric. Instead, we in America treat Paine as some type of neglected step-child that is hidden away. I was never introduced to Paine until college, we don’t honor his efforts with great memorials or on our money and he is usually only (wrongly) quoted by the right wing.
The Buddha asked Malunkyaputta to imagine a man who had been wounded by a poisoned arrow. The Buddha told him to them imagine that the wounded man’s friends and relatives sent for a surgeon but when the surgeon arrives, the wounded man says: ‘I will not let the surgeon pull out this arrow until I know whether the man who wounded me was a noble or a brahmin (priest), or a merchant or a worker…tall, short, or middle height…brown or golden-skinned…whether he lives in such a village or town or city…whether the bow that wounded me was a long bow or a cross bow…’ and so on.
