A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Friday, July 3, 2020
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Thursday, July 2, 2020
Via Coisa do Japão // Templo budista em Saitama realiza casamentos LGBTQIA+
Atualmente, pode-se dizer que os templos budistas operam mais como negócios do que como local para receber orientação espiritual. Ao contrário do budismo na Índia, onde a religião se originou, o budismo japonês é mais conhecido como “budismo fúnebre”, pois em muitos casos apenas os serviços funerários estão disponíveis ao público.
O templo Saimyouji, em Kawagoe, Saitama-ken, com uma história de quase 800 anos pretende se destacar do resto graças aos esforços de seu recém-nomeado sacerdote chefe Senda Akihiro.
“Quero abrir meu templo para todo mundo, seja japonês ou estrangeiro”, diz Senda em entrevista ao site Tokyo Weekender. “O objetivo de todas as religiões, incluindo o budismo, é ajudar as pessoas.”
Via Daily Dharma: Deepen Your Understanding of Existence
—Dainin Katagiri Roshi, “You Are Already Here”
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Via Neem Karoli Baba Ashram // GURU PURNIMA ON SITE CANCELLED
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 1, 2020 💌
Via Daily Dharma: Pay Attention to Your Movement
—Cator Shachoy, “A Real Pain in the Butt”
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Via White Crane Institute // ALLEN YOUNG
June 30
Via Daily Dharma: Come Back to Just This
—Julie Nelson,“Sick and Useless Zen”
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Monday, June 29, 2020
#FiqueEmCasa #WearAMask #ShutupandWearyourDamnMask
ATTN:
Did you guys know the FDA just approved a drug that reduces your chance of getting COVID-19 by 5X? It’s trade name is called Wearamaskasshole.
Side effects include:
mild inconvienience, possible victim complex, fear of people thinking you are a sheeple, being ostracized by your anti-vax plandemic bros, and the power to stop your own asymptomatic transmission as this country stubbornly dives right on into that second wave.
Check with your doctor, or really anyone, to see if Wearamaskasshole is right for you.
Yes totally stole this.... Put a mask on. ✌🏼
Via Queerty // Nice buns! This global burger chain just renamed itself for pride in Mexico
If there’s one thing that prompts heated debate among some LGBTQ people it’s the use of the word ‘queer’.
For some, it’s a defiant and unifying umbrella term to cover non-hetero sexualities. Others, remembering its use as a slur, prefer not to apply it to themselves. Perhaps for that reason, it’s a term that many corporates shy away from adopting, instead opting to just co-opt the rainbow flag instead.
¡Viva México!
Via Daily Dharma: Transforming Emotions into Guidance
—Josh Korda,“A Safe Container for Fear”
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Via White Crane Institute - HENRY GERBER
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Como entender a homossexualidade? | Monja Coen responde | Zen Budismo
Feliz Dia Internacional do Orgulho LGBTQIA+. Happy Pride!
“O espírito do Budismo sobre a homossexualidade é a inclusividade!
Se duas pessoas realmente se sentem bem dessa maneira e ambos os lados concordam totalmente, então tudo bem. Não se pode considerar isso uma doença ou que é errado. Você tem que ir além disso.
Você precisa respeitar essa pessoa, de verdade.” #namaste #andrealmada #happypride #orgulho #monjacoen
Via White Crane Institute // EDWARD CARPENTER
EDWARD CARPENTER, English poet and Gay pioneer, died (b: 1844); Edward Carpenter was a pioneering socialist and radical prophet of a new age of fellowship in which social relations would be transformed by a new spiritual consciousness. The way he lived his life, perhaps even more than his extensive writings, was the essence of his message.
It is perhaps not surprising that his reputation faded quickly after his death, as he lived much of his life modestly spreading his message by personal contact and example rather than by major literary works or through a national political career. He has been described as having that unusual combination of qualities: charisma with modesty.
His ideas became immensely influential during the early years of the Socialist movement in Britain: perhaps Carpenter's most widely remembered legacy to the Socialist and Co-operative movements was his anthem England Arise!
A leading figure in late 19th and early 20th century Britain, he was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labor Party. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore, corresponding with many famous figures such as Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Mahatma Ganghi, Jack London.William Morris and John Ruskin among many others.
But it is his writings on the subject of homosexuality and his open espousal of this identity that makes him unique. If you are unfamiliar with Carpenter, find him…read him. He is unquestionably one of the formative, foundational Gay philosophers in the late 19th and early 20th century. His influence was widespread at the time, and is no less innovative and profound, today.
His important writings include:
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- Towards Democracy (1883)
- England's Ideal (1887)
- Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure (1889; reissued 1920)
- Homogenic love and its place in a free society (1894)
- Love's Coming of Age (1896)
- Days with Walt Whitman (1906)
- Iolaus — anthology of friendship (editor, 1908)
- The Intermediate Sex: a Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women (1908)
- The Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk (1914)
- My Days and Dreams (autobiography, 1916)
- Pagan & Christian Creeds: their origin and meaning (1920)
A strong advocate of sexual freedom, living in a Gay community near Sheffield, he had a profound influence on both D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster. On his return from India in 1891, he met George Merrill, a working class man also from Sheffield, and the two men struck up a relationship, eventually moving in together in 1898. Merrill had been raised in the slums of Sheffield and had no formal education.
Two men of different classes living together as a couple was almost unheard of in England in the 1890s, a fact made all the more extraordinary by the hysteria about alternative sexualities generated by the Oscar Wilde trial of 1895 and the Criminal Law Amendment Bill passed a decade earlier "outlawing all forms of male homosexual contact". But their relationship endured and they remained partners for the rest of their lives. Their relationship not only defied Victorian sexual mores but also the highly stratified British class system. Their partnership, in many ways, reflected Carpenter's cherished conviction that same-sex love had the power to subvert class boundaries.
It was his belief that at sometime in the future, Gay people would be the cause of radical social change in the social conditions of man. Carpenter remarks in his work "The Intermediate Sex":
"Eros is a great leveler. Perhaps the true Democracy rests, more firmly than anywhere else, on a sentiment which easily passes the bounds of class and caste, and unites in the closest affection the most estranged ranks of society. It is noticeable how often Uranians of good position and breeding are drawn to rougher types, as of manual workers, and frequently very permanent alliances grow up in this way, which although not publicly acknowledged have a decided influence on social institutions, customs and political tendencies". p.114-115
(Note: The term “uranian", referring to a passage from Plato's Symposium, was often used at the time to describe someone who would be termed "Gay" nowadays. Carpenter is counted among the Uranians himself.)