Via LGBTQ Heritage/Memorial Project W // Gay History – August 24, 79 AD: Mt. Vesuvius Erupts Burying Gay Lovers and Ancient Gay Porn In Pompeii

 

Gay History: August 24, 79 AD

Mt Vesuvius erupts burying Pompeii and preserving the city forever. The ash preserves homoerotic frescoes that Christianity would no doubt have destroyed had they not been covered. When the artwork was first discovered, people found it so scandalous that much of it was locked away in the National Museum of Naples, where it remained hidden from view for over 100 years. In the year 2000, the art was finally made view-able to the public, but minors must be accompanied by an adult.

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 25, 2021 💌

The way you work, in doing Sadhana [spiritual practice], is that every act you perform becomes a method of taking you to this other state of consciousness. You are trying to change your perceptual vantage point, and everything you do has to be a device to take you to that place. From a Western point of view, you are doing a complete cognitive reorganization. You are changing your reference point, changing the core concept around which the whole constellation is built. - Ram Dass

 

Via Daily Dharma: Sharing Our Karma

 

Recognizing that difficult emotions are common to all humans also seems to arouse immediate feelings of empathy with others. We share our emotions: they are part of our collective karma, the human condition.

—Wes Nisker, “It’s Only Natural”

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Via Daily Dharma: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

No matter how high the mountains of the great dharma are, no matter how deep the sea of ignorance is, they will be as nothing before a boundless spirit of determination.

—Koun Yamada, “Great Faith, Great Doubt, Great Determination”

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Via Daily Dharma: Everything Becomes “We”

Pervading all is a groundless awareness, delicate and strong at the same time. Everything becomes we, a beating heart with a transparent, radiant smile. And we are awake.

—Judith Simmer-Brown, “Insomnia”

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Finding Myself in the Garden

Valerie Brown returns to gardening to recover her broken spirit, and discovers what really grows in a garden is love.

The first foundation of mindfulness is awareness of the body. Mindful awareness invites the practitioner to see, touch, taste, and smell — to be fully alive in the present moment to the great gift of life. Mindfulness is an innate quality in every person that supports awakening to the non-reoccurring nature of each and every moment of daily life. For me, gardening became a theology of love that invited me back to my senses, which were deadened by too muchness, too soon-ness, and too fastness.

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 22, 2021 💌

 
 

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

- Ram Dass

Via Daily Dharma: Healing Is Not a Journey

Healing ourselves is like living our lives. It is not a preparation for anything else, nor a journey to another situation called wellness. It is its own self; it has its own value. It is each thing as it is.

—Darlene Cohen, “The Practice of Nonpreference”

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Via Tricycle // The Seven Factors of Awakening Explained

 

The Seven Factors of Awakening Explained
By Christina Feldman and Jaya Rudgard

 

The path to awakening isn’t an easy one. Fortunately, allies are available to support us on our journey and direct our hearts toward liberation.

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Via Daily Dharma: We Are Boundless

 

At the core of Buddhist teaching is the awakened mind—the knowing that we are not this body but consciousness itself, a boundless, luminous, loving, peaceful, intelligent presence.

—Nina Wise, “Sudden Awakening”

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