It’s
not enough just to know the definition of bodhisattva. What’s much more
important is to study the actions of a bodhisattva and then to behave
like one yourself.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // OSCAR WILDE
Died
1900 -
OSCAR WILDE, Irish writer, wit and raconteur died (b. 1854); Prison was unkind to Wilde's health and after he was released on May 19, 1897 he spent his last three years penniless, in self-imposed exile from society and artistic circles. He went under the assumed name of Sebastian Melmoth, after the famously "penetrated" Saint Sebastian and the devilish central character of Wilde's great-uncle Charles Robert Maturin's gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer.
Nevertheless, Wilde lost no time in returning to his previous pleasures. According to Douglas, Ross "dragged [him] back to homosexual practices" during the summer of 1897, which they spent together in Berneval.
After his release, he also wrote the famous poem The Ballad of Readying Gaol. Wilde spent his last years in the Hôtel d'Alsace, now known as L’Hôtel, in Paris, where he was notorious and uninhibited about enjoying the pleasures he had been denied in England. Again according to Douglas, "he was hand in glove with all the little boys on the Boulevard. He never attempted to conceal it." In a letter to Ross, Wilde laments, "Today I bade good-bye, with tears and one kiss, to the beautiful Greek boy. . . he is the nicest boy you ever introduced to me." Just a month before his death he is quoted as saying, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."
His moods fluctuated; Max Beerbohm relates how, a few days before Wilde's death, their mutual friend Reginald 'Reggie' Turner had found Wilde very depressed after a nightmare. "I dreamt that I had died, and was supping with the dead!" "I am sure," Turner replied, "that you must have been the life and soul of the party." Reggie Turner was one of the very few of the old circle who remained with Wilde right to the end, and was at his bedside when he died. On his deathbed he was received into the Roman Catholic church for some odd reason. Perhaps he really had lost his mind. Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900.
Wilde was buried in the Cimitiere de Bagneaux outside Paris but was later moved to Père Lachaise in Paris. His tomb in Père Lachaise was designed by sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, at the request of Robert Ross, who also asked for a small compartment to be made for his own ashes. Ross's ashes were transferred to the tomb in 1950. The numerous spots on it are lipstick traces from admirers.
The modernist angel depicted as a relief on the tomb was originally complete with male genitals. They were broken off as obscene and kept as a paperweight by a succession of Père Lachaise cemetery keepers. Their current whereabouts are unknown. In the summer of 2000, intermedia artist Leon Johnson performed a forty minute ceremony entitled Re-membering Wilde in which a commissioned silver prosthesis was installed to replace the vandalized genitals.
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Monday, November 29, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Meeting Discomfort
Dharma
practice is not an escape: it’s an intimate meeting with the discomfort
and suffering of the first noble truth. Life contains suffering.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna
RIGHT MINDFULNESS
Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects
Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects
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Tomorrow: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering
One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and Abiding in the First Jhāna
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Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.
One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and Abiding in the First Jhāna
Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media
#DhammaWheel
Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.
Via Tricycle // Finding Spirit in the Ordinary
Finding Spirit in the Ordinary
By Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi
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Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Sufferin
Most of our suffering comes from habitual thinking. If we try to stop it out of aversion to thinking, we can’t; we just go on and on and on. So the important thing is not to get rid of thought, but to understand it.
Festival Cinema e Transcendência
Chegou mais uma edição do Festival Cinema e Transcendência!
Mais
uma vez online para todo o Brasil, exibimos filmes que refletem a busca
da transcendência, através da arte, da cultura, da vida...Nesta edição, estamos lançando vários títulos no Brasil e teremos a participação de diretores e convidados incríveis em nossas Lives!
Dia 01/12 às 20h teremos a ABERTURA do Festival com show musical do grupo GHARANA ELETROACÚSTICA e exibição do filme SAMADHI ROAD.
Acesse www.Nosso Insta:
@cinema.transcendencia
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 28, 2021 💌
When I perform a wedding ceremony, the image I invoke is of a triangle
formed by the two partners and this third force, which is the shared
love that unites and surrounds them both. In the yoga of relationship,
two people come together to find that shared love but continue to dance
as two. In that union, both people are separate and yet not separate.
Their relationship feeds both their unique individuality and their unity
of consciousness.
Love can open the way to surrendering into oneness. It gets
extraordinarily beautiful when there’s no more “me” and “you,” and it
becomes just “us.” Taken to a deeper level, when compassion is fully
developed, you are not looking at others as “them.” You’re listening and
experiencing and letting that intuitive part of you merge with the
other person, and you’re feeling their pain or joy or hope or fear in
yourself. Then it’s no longer “us” and “them”; it’s just “us.” Practice
this in your relationships with others.
- Ram Dass
Via White Crane Institute \\ RITA MAE BROWN
This Day in Gay History
November 28
Born
1944 -
RITA MAE BROWN American writer, born; Best known for her mysteries and other novels (Rubyfruit Jungle), she is also an Emmy-nominated screenwriter. In the 1960s, Brown attended the University of Florida but was expelled; she states that it was for her participation in a civil rights rally. She moved to New York and attended New York University, where she received a degree in classics and English. Later she received another degree in cinematography from the New York School of Visial Arts. She also holds a doctorate in political science from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C.
In the late 1960s, Brown turned her attention to politics. She became active in the American Civil Rights movement, the anti-war movement, the Gay Liberation movement and the feminist movement. She cofounded the Student Homophile League and participated in the Stonewall Uprising (pg 243 of the 1997 edition of "Rita Will": "There stood Martha Shelley and I in a sea of rioting Gay men...'Martha, we'd better get the hell out of here.'") in New York City. She took an administrative position with the fledgling National Organization for Women, but angrily resigned in February 1970 over Betty Friedan’s anti-Gay remarks and NOW's attempts to distance itself from Lesbian organizations. She played a leading role in the "Lavender Menace" zap of the Second Congress to Unite Women on May 1, 1970, which protested Friedan's remarks and the exclusion of Lesbians from the women's movement.
In the early 1970s, she became a founding member of The Furies Collective, a Lesbian feminist newspaper collective which held that heterosexuality was the root of all oppression. She is the former girlfriend of tennis player Martina Navratilova, actress and writer Fannie Flagg, socialite Judy Nelson and politician Elaine Noble. Brown enjoys American fox hunting and is master of her Fox Hunt Club. She has also played polo and started the woman-only Blue Ridge Polo Club.
The woman is funny, she’s deadly serious, and you’d better damn well listen up. She’s just like Molly Bolt, the heroine of her semi-autobiographical Rubyfruit Jungle who locks her adoptive mother in the root cellar. She’s a born fighter and doesn’t take any nonsense from anyone. She’d be awfully hard to take if it weren’t for the fact that she’s right in what she says almost all the time. And she says exactly what most people don’t want to hear. Like, for example, “I don’t think there is a ‘Gay lifestyle.’ I think that’s superficial crap all that talk about Gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let’s don’t confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture, that’s a fad and it passes. I think we’ve blown superficial characteristics out of proportion…”
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Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
www.whitecraneinstitute.org
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Friday, November 26, 2021
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