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Via White Crane Institute // This Day in Gay History

 

July 14

Born

L to R: Tom Hatcher and Arthur Laurents

1914 -

ARTHUR LAURENTS, American playwright, novelist, director and one of the giants of the American theater, born (d: 2011); His credits included the stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the film The Way We Were. In 2000, Laurents published Original Story By Arthur Laurents: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood. In it, he discusses his lengthy career and his many Gay affairs and long-term relationships, including those with Farley Granger and Tom Hatcher, an aspiring, and quite beautiful, actor whom Gore Vidal suggested Laurents seek out at the men's clothing store in Beverly Hills Hatcher was managing at the time.

The couple remained together for 52 years until Hatcher's death on October 26, 2006. Laurents died in 2011.

Tina Turner - Lotus Sutra / Purity of Mind (2H Meditation)

Via Tricycle -- Bringing Hungry Ghosts Out of Hiding

 

Bringing Hungry Ghosts Out of Hiding
Andy Rotman in conversation with Julia Hirsch

Early Buddhist literature describes hell realms full of tormented beings with insatiable appetites. According to the author of Hungry Ghosts, these beings are powerful teachers of the dharma who make our suffering visible.

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Via Daily Dharma: The Backbone of Letting Go

By creating a sense of background support through the calming and stilling of the mind, meditation makes possible the compassionate conditions that allow clinging to be released.

—Mark Epstein, “What Changes?”

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