Sunday, January 18, 2015

Flor do Dia - Flor del Día - Flower of the Day - 18/01/2015

“Uma parte fundamental do processo de cura e transformação que tenho chamado de “ABC da Espiritualidade” é fazer as pazes com a sua constelação familiar, ou seja, é se harmonizar com o passado para que possa se libertar dele. Durante esse processo, você é levado a tomar consciência de que muitas vezes seus desejos não são atendidos porque você não está pedindo de verdade; porque a parte consciente que está pedindo é pequena comparada à parte inconsciente que não está querendo. Portanto, existe uma relação entre esse aspecto e a sua história familiar. Eu posso te dar instrumentos para que você faça essa relação, mas somente você poderá compreendê-la através do estudo de si mesmo.”
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“Una parte fundamental del proceso de cura y transformación que vengo llamando "ABC de la Espiritualidad" es hacer las paces con tu constelación familiar, es decir, armonizarte con el pasado para que puedas liberarte de él. Durante este proceso, eres llevado a tomar conciencia de que muchas veces tus deseos no son atendidos porque no estás pidiendo de verdad; debido a que la parte consciente que está pidiendo es pequeña en comparación con la parte inconsciente que no está queriendo. Por lo tanto, existe una relación entre este aspecto y tu historia familiar. Te puedo dar instrumentos para que hagas esta relación, pero solo tú puedes comprenderla a través del estudio de ti mismo.”

“A fundamental part of the process of healing and transformation that I call the ‘ABC’s of Spirituality’ is to make peace with our family constellation. This happens by harmonize ourselves with the past so that we may become liberated from it. During this process, we begin to gain the awareness that oftentimes our desires are not fulfilled because we are not truly asking for them to be. The part of us that is asking is small in comparison to the unconscious part that truly doesn’t want it. Thus, there is a connection between this aspect of us and our family history. I can give you the tools to make this connection, but you will only understand this by studying yourself.”

Via Daily Dharma

A Bigger Worldview | January 18, 2015

The dharma teachings of liberation and freedom enable us to have a much bigger worldview because we learn what it is not to cling to a position or opinion or religion. Finding skillful ways and means within different religious and political structures is something we as Buddhists can offer.

- Christopher Titmuss, "Rising to the Challenge: A Step Toward Peace"

Via The New Civil Rights Movement: Pope Francis: Same-Sex Marriage 'Threatens To Disfigure God's Plan'

Pope Francis on Friday in front of a large audience in the Philippines attacked same-sex marriage.
Friday, while traveling in the Philippines, Pope Francis moved into a more conservative mode and attacked same-sex marriage. 

"The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life,” the Pontiff told thousands at a Mass in Manila. "These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation."

The 78-year old Argentinean also referred to the movement in many countries to accept same-sex marriage as an "ideological colonization that we have to be careful about that is trying to destroy the family."

"Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself," Francis also told the conservative Catholic nation. "The future of humanity, as Saint John Paul II often said, passes through the family."

Ironically, Pope Francis concluded his speech by saying he was "very moved after the Mass today when I visited that shelter for children with no parents." Those "children with no parents" likely could have parents if same-sex couples were allowed to marry and adopt.