Being fully present to what is—without judging or evaluating or wanting something different—is the most basic act of love.
Monday, June 7, 2021
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Via Thich Nhat Hanh gems / FB
This can be seen, it can be felt. It’s not something you just talk about. It is a practice, it is a training, and every breath and every step that you take aims at realizing that togetherness. It’s wonderful to live in a community like that, because the well-being of the other person is also our well-being. By bringing joy and happiness to one person, we bring joy and happiness to every one of us. That is why I think that community-building, sangha-building, is the most important, most noble work that we can do.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Via White Crane Institute // This Day in Gay History: THOMAS MANN
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June 06Born 
1875 -
THOMAS MANN,
German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955); a German novelist, short
story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel
Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic
novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the
psychology of the artist and intellectual.
His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used
modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe,
Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
Mann's diaries, unsealed in 1975, tell of his struggles with his
sexuality, which found reflection in his works, most prominently through
the obsession of the elderly Aschenbach for the 14-year-old Polish boy
Tadzio in the novella Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig, 1912).
Anthony Heilbut's biography Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature (1997) was widely acclaimed for uncovering the centrality of Mann's sexuality to his oeuvre. Gilbert Adair's work The Real Tadzio
describes how, in the summer of 1911, Mann had been staying at the
Grand Hôtel des Bains in Venice with his wife and brother when he became
enraptured by the angelic figure of Władysław Moes, an 11-year-old
Polish boy. Considered a classic of homoerotic passion (if
unconsummated) Death in Venice has been made into a
film and an opera. Blamed sarcastically by Mann’s old enemy, Alfred
Kerr, to have ‘made pederasty acceptable to the cultivated middle
classes’, it has been pivotal to introducing the discourse of same-sex
desire to the common culture.
Mann himself described his feelings for young violinist and
painter Paul Ehrenberg as the "central experience of my heart." Despite
the homoerotic overtones in his writing, Mann chose to marry and have
children; two of his children, Klaus, also a writer, who committed
suicide in 1949, and Erika, an actress and writer who died in 1969 and
who was married to W.H. Auden for 34 years, were also Gay. His works
also present other sexual themes, such as incest in The Blood of the Walsungs (Wälsungenblut) and The Holy Sinner (Der Erwählte).
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 6, 2021 💌
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep
inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being.
It’s not “I love you” for this or that reason, not “I love you if you
love me.” It’s love for no reason, love without an object. It’s just
sitting in love, a love that incorporates the chair and the room and
permeates everything around. The thinking mind is extinguished in love.
If I go into the place in myself that is love and you go into the place
in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are
truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness.
That’s the space I entered when I met my guru.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Being Nobly Human
We do not become less human by purging toxins from our emotional life but rather more nobly human. Abandoning greed, hatred, and delusion at every opportunity, we are still left with a rich, nuanced, and healthier emotional life.
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Via Lion's Roar // Loving-Kindness: Healing Your Inner Child
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Thich
Nhat Hanh, our teacher, described love as an extremely powerful energy
that has the capacity to transform ourselves and others. But many of us
find it difficult to direct love toward ourselves. We quickly become
aware of negative feelings like shame, guilt, and self-criticism that
make it hard to love and care for ourselves. Unfortunately, this is all
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Via FB // The Pink Triangle
In Nazi concentration camps, each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the reason for their imprisonment; A pink triangle was established for prisoners identified as homosexual men, which also included bisexual men and transgender women. The pink triangles were slightly larger than the other colored triangles so that guards could identify them from a distance. It is said that those who wore the pink triangles were singled out by the guards, and when the guards were finished with them, some of the other inmates would harm them as well. At the end of the war, when the concentration camps were finally liberated, virtually all of the prisoners were released except those who wore the pink triangle. Those with a pink triangle on their pocket were put back in prison and their nightmare continued. Prisoners imprisoned for homosexuality were re-incarcerated by the Allied-established Federal Republic of Germany. The Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, which turned homosexuality from a minor offense into a felony, remained intact in East Germany until 1968 and in West Germany until 1969, though West Germany continued to imprison those identified as homosexual until 1994. 1994, only 26 years ago. The holocaust did not end for everyone in 1945.
Via Daily Dharma: Make Friends With Your Mind
Meditation
teachers often use the analogy of meditation as making friends with
your mind, and for good reason. If our practice feels like hanging out
with a hopeless case we are charged with fixing but fear we cannot,
sitting is no fun at all.
Friday, June 4, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Liberate Your Breath
Breath
wants to liberate itself, to free itself from its encasing in the
body’s frozen stillness. The whole of the body wants to keep moving—not
even a single little part left out, everything in motion, just like the
universe.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Tasting Freedom
The
Buddha says that just as in the great ocean there is but one taste, the
taste of salt, so in his doctrine and discipline there is but one
taste, the taste of freedom.
Não vamos voltar ao normal.
Não
vamos voltar ao normal. Normal nunca foi. Nossa existência pré-corona
não era normal, a não ser que normalizamos a ganância, a injustiça, a
exaustão, o esgotamento, a extração... Não devemos voltar por muito
tempo, meus amigos. Estamos tendo a oportunidade de costurar uma nova
roupa. Aquela que se adapta a toda a humanidade e a natureza.
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Living Harmoniously With Others
For spiritual practitioners,
relationships are the final test.
Even if you have awakened to your enlightened nature,
there is still further to go in your spiritual journey
if you’re not living harmoniously with others.
Even if you have awakened to your enlightened nature,
there is still further to go in your spiritual journey
if you’re not living harmoniously with others.
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