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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.
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We attain wisdom not by creating ideals but by learning to see things clearly, as they are.
Jack Kornfield, “Theravada Vipassana Practice”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
BRYNE R.S. FONE, American scholar and writer, born; It would be impossible to compile a complete survey of Gay male literature; the very looseness of the definition of "Gay" (not to mention the wealth of possible material) would overwhelm the project. Despite that, Byrne R.S. Fone fashioned a useful, intelligent, and amazingly functional volume that traces Gay male themes from classical antiquity to the present day.
Drawing on a variety of traditions and cultures -- from ancient Greece to modern Egypt, from the Hebrew Bible to the Russian revolutionary Sergei Esenin -- Fone reviews and reprints not only significant texts, but also supplies readable, intelligent introductions that illuminate the subject in the Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (ISBN: 0231096712).
Most of the material, apart from a short section on Latin American and Cuban writing, is steeped in a Western European tradition; the book nevertheless conjures a good case for a Gay sensibility--or rather a series of sensibilities--that amazes, alarms, and endures. Fone is also the author of A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature, 1750-1969 and Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Historical Text.
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Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute
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Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
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Ramakrishna said, "Only two kinds of people can attain to
self-knowledge: those whose minds are not encumbered at all with
learning - that is to say, not overcrowded with thoughts borrowed from
others - and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences,
have come to realize that they know nothing."
That last part is when the Jnana yoga path is really working, because
the "know nothing" is the next step in this trip. You learn and you
learn and you learn until you realize that with all you've learned, you
don't know anything - and that's the route through. You use your
intellectual models to get you going - they're really helpful for that -
but you don't cling to the models; you keep letting go of them, letting
go of the intellectual structures. Otherwise they get in your way.
-Ram Dass -
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