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Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	The everyday life of people is like clouds and water, but clouds and water are free while people are not. If they would get to be as free as clouds and water, where would people's compulsive mundane routines arise? - Dogen, "Rational Zen" More Buddhism Quotes >>

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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 12, 2012

Practicing With Loss

We are all going to suffer our losses. How we deal with these losses is what makes all the difference. For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny, but how we relate to what happens.

- Lama Surya Das, "Practicing With Loss"

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The now-familiar gay pride Oreo is one of the finalists in this year's GLAAD Amplifier Awards. Hit the link for the other nominees.

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JMG HomoQuotable - David Halperin

"What makes gay people different from others is not just that we are discriminated against, mistreated, regarded as sick or perverted. That alone is not what shapes gay culture. (That indeed could end.) It's that we live in a world in which heterosexuality is the norm. Heterosexual culture remains our first culture, and in order to survive and to flourish in its midst, gay people must engage in an appropriation of it that is also a resistance to it.

"So long as queer kids continue to be born into heterosexual families and into a society that is normatively, notionally heterosexual, they will have to devise their own nonstandard relation to heterosexual culture. Gay subjectivity will always be shaped by the primeval need on the part of gay subjects to queer heteronormative culture. That is not going to change. Not for a very long time. And we'd better hope it doesn't." - Queer theorist David Halperin, from an essay adapted from his new book, How To Be Gay.

Labels: heteronormativity, HomoQuotable, LGBT culture

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Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	The darkness of ages cannot shroud the glowing sun; The long eons of Samsara neer can hide the Minds brilliant Light. - Tilopa, "The Song of Mahamudra" More Buddhism Quotes >>

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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 11, 2012

Compassion, Not Coddling

We should be compassionate to all. But compassion sometimes has to be harsh. How else can we pinpoint where the problem really lies? Hatred’s hold on us is so strong. Simple coddling will not do the job.

- Nawang Gehlek Rimpoche, "The Real Enemy"

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