The mind of virtue avoids ill-intent and cultivates beneficial intentions, particulary towards others.
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Michael John Smith@londonerabroad@mstdn.social
Happily married 70 y/o English Buddhist vegan and eco-socialist living in Slovenia trying to be kind to every kind.
#buddhism #veganism #meditation #mahayana #humanrights #animalrights #socialjustice #environment #sustainability #climatechange #vegan #lgbtqia ally #metoo #blm #refugeeswelcome #straightedge #solarpunk #mindfulness #compassion #kindness #ecosocialism #green #progressive #community #refugees #migrants #left #antifa #slovenia #ljubljana #socialmedia #tonglen #bodhicitta
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Post1 / 5We are currently looking for sponsors to help a young man from Ireland to attend the one week retreat at Samye Ling in August 2025. Ross suffers from bi-polar disorder and lives in a small house with his old mother. Never the less recently he managed to get a part time job but doesn't earn enough money to travel to Scotland for the retreat.
With your generous donation Ross will be able to fulfill his ambition to dedicate himself to dharma,
https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/fundraising/help-ross-from-ireland-participate-in-a-one-week-retreat-in-scotland
ZeffyHelp Ross from Ireland Participate in a One Week Retreat in Scotland.We are currently looking for sponsors to help a young man from Ireland to attend the one week retreat at Samye Ling in August 2025. Ross suffers from bi-polar disorder and lives in a small house with his old mother. Never the less recently he managed to get a part time job but doesn't earn enough money to travel to Scotland for the retreat. With your generous donation Ross will be able to fulfill his ambition to dedicate himself to dharma- for his mental health and spiritual development. Even as little as 5$ can help him seize this wonderful opportunity and learn from authentic master.
New #introduction
As a happily #married, #retired #English #Buddhist #straightedge #vegan #solarpunk living these past 38 years in #Ljubljana, #Slovenia, I try my best to be kind to every kind using #socialmedia to #campaign for #humanrights #animalrights #socialjustice and the #environment I am very concerned about #lgbtqia rights, #veganism and #ClimateChange
Please follow if you have similar #progressive interests or #spirituality, #meditation, #left #green #politics or #mentalhealth
I am convinced that we all have what we Buddhists call buddha-nature, core values of loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity - I see it everyday in how everyone tries to find meaning.in their lives by seeking to be happy and avoid suffering. I think that if we all tried to connect with this innate goodness at the very core of our beings and familiarize ourselves with it, begin to see it in others as well as ourselves, the world would be a much happier place. #buddhism
"When we have acquired an awareness of the fact that all beings have been our mothers, and when this awareness is constant, the result will be that when we see meat, we will be conscious of the fact that it is the flesh of our own mothers. And, far from putting it in our mouths and eating it, we will be unable to even take it into our hands or smell its odor."
~ Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol, Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat
@buddhism
We are currently looking for sponsors to help a young man from Ireland to attend the one week retreat at Samye Ling in August 2025. Ross suffers from bi-polar disorder and lives in a small house with his old mother. Never the less recently he managed to get a part time job but doesn't earn enough money to travel to Scotland for the retreat.
With your generous donation Ross will be able to fulfill his ambition to dedicate himself to dharma,
https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/fundraising/help-ross-from-ireland-participate-in-a-one-week-retreat-in-scotland
ZeffyHelp Ross from Ireland Participate in a One Week Retreat in Scotland.We are currently looking for sponsors to help a young man from Ireland to attend the one week retreat at Samye Ling in August 2025. Ross suffers from bi-polar disorder and lives in a small house with his old mother. Never the less recently he managed to get a part time job but doesn't earn enough money to travel to Scotland for the retreat. With your generous donation Ross will be able to fulfill his ambition to dedicate himself to dharma- for his mental health and spiritual development. Even as little as 5$ can help him seize this wonderful opportunity and learn from authentic master.
If you are a Buddhist in America perhaps you would consider joining this new movement. Because the current regime in the USA is also affecting people globally, I have also asked to join and I am not even American.
#buddhism #democracy #politics #compassion
Buddhist Coalition for Democracy - · Home - Buddhist Coalition for Democracy
Please donate and share!
#Palestine #Gaza
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-manar-hamouda-and-her-children
gofundme.comDonate to Support Manar Hamouda and Her Children, organized by Manar HammoudaMy name is Manar Adnan Hamouda, a mother of three children and we live in Gaza, … Manar Hammouda needs your support for Support Manar Hamouda and Her Children
I would like to recommend the Plum Village App for android phones available for free on Google Play. It has many teachings, practices and guided meditations from the nuns and monks of Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Monastery.I would like to recommend the Plum Village App for android phones available for free on Google Play. It has many teachings, practices and guided meditations from the nuns and monks of Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Monastery.
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New Instance , new (ish) #Introduction
Ex mainframe (IBM) Storage Manager / Installations bod.
Now part time hermit with #Depression, #ActuallyAutistic
Channel #MarvinTheParanoidAndroid
Massive #TerryPratchett & #DouglasAdams fan.
Love #Scifi #Fantasy #Reading #Movies
Interested in #Physics #Astronomy #Photograpy but rubbish at all of them.
Believe in #ClimateChange #BigBangTheory
Lean to the left & am definitely #Woke
Will drive you insane if you let me !
Humaning is hard , so am Squirrel.
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Would you help this petition, on radical reform of the UN 
and its “Security” Council, to reach its next target 
of 7,500 signatures
Change.orgSign the PetitionAfter 78 years of status quo LOGJAM, the world is in DIRE STRAITS! Time to reform the UN
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I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope
Christiana Figueres
Fighting spirit helped us achieve the Paris accords in 2015 – and we need it now the world is on course to overshoot 1.5C
‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Christiana Figueres was the head of the UN climate change convention from 2010 to 2016
The Guardian · I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope
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For the folks who think that if we just shout louder about the climate crisis, that deniers will finally listen... Florida has just outlawed the words.
"The Florida Legislature’s HB 1645 wishes away climate change by not allowing those two words to be used in state law."
Just in time for the hurricane season of the hottest year in 100,000 years.
The Palm Beach Post · Florida lawmakers want to pretend climate change doesn't exist. That won't make it so.
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UN Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for #Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the #Gaza Strip. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/un-human-rights-council-israel-gaza-biden-netanyahu
The Guardian · UN body calls for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes
Much of what little aid is reaching Gaza ends up being sold on the black market at crazy prices. So I am asking you for money to send to a friend in Gaza to buy food and water for her family.
#gaza #palestine #fundraiser #donate #food #CharityShopFinds
PayPal: https://ko-fi.com/londonerabroad
Just cards: https://gogetfunding.com/money-to-feed-a-family-in-gaza/
Take a look!
Ko-fiSupport Michael John Smith on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/londonerabroadCollecting money for a family in Gaza to spend on food and water.
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If you can't donate but would like to help us, two trans and disabled folks surviving with two cats and a dog, you can also post cat pictures/art in this cool thread made by my friend @bronsen 
He's sending me 1€ for each cat picture you publish under his post (up to reasonable amounts) so that's a really good and fun way to help me!
Please boost for visibility:
https://chaos.social/@bronsen/112022271564623972
Thank you!
chaos.socialbronsen (@bronsen@chaos.social)It's March, let's have a bit of consensual fun & game: reply with #cat photos or drawings, my timeline wants it!
Here are some rules:
- Your cat, or your photo of a cat
- Your or your friend's #drawing, #carving, #scribble, #WIP, #sketch, etc
- No meme-fied images, just cat
- I fav every image and enjoy its "Behaglichkeit"
- For every such genuine image I will #donate 1 EUR to @Testoceratops@disabled.social (up to sensible & non-trivial amount of course)
#fedicats #CatsOfMastodon
:BoostOK: :ReplyOK:
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The obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/22/obstacles-to-gaza-aid-deliveries-visual-guide?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #Gaza
The Guardian · ‘Man-made starvation’: the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide
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This is the way.