Krishna Das – Pilgrim Heart – Ep. 130 – The Love That Lives Within Us
February 10, 2023
“Sanskrit
is considered to be a revealed language. What that means is that the
sound is actually the sound form of the Divine. It’s...
TODAY’S GAY WISDOM
From Harry Hay's Radically Gay, edited by Will Roscoe:
Harry Hay's Gay politics represent an alternative to postmodernist, queer theory and dogmatic Constructionism. Indeed, Hay is the only contemporary Gay thinker who could be said to offer a unified theory of Gayness -- one that begins by defining its subject in multidimensional terms and then accounts for its individual and historical origins, its diverse forms and their history, the psycho-social development of Gay individuals, and the nature and sources of Gay oppression. Postmodernism offers at best a politics of resignation, one that rejects the possibility of an "outside" to power, of a subject-SUBJECT alternative to subject-OBJECT social relations, and the means of getting there is through a politics that affirms Queer identities and cultures.
Hay is not bothered if his ideas are called Essentialist or if his activism is deemed "identity politics" — he is happy to emphasize his differences with Social Constructionism and Queer theory — provided that the word radical precede these labels. The original meaning of this word, "to the root," serves well to convey the underlying theme of his philosophy and politics. The key principles of Harry's radical Essentialism can be summed up as follows:
The mass coming-out that transformed the quiescent homophile movement of the 1960s into the dynamic Lesbian/Gay liberation and civil rights movements of the 1970s and 1980s was in large measure a function of joining a community where a negative label could be replaced with an affirmative identity. Hay's writings show that this was no accident. The cultural minority model was a carefully thought out political analysis and strategy on the part of the Mattachine founders.
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Listen
with your body, your heart, your eyes, your energy, your total
presence. Listen in silence, without interrupting. Fill any spaces of
silence between you with love.
Beth Roth, “Right Speech Reconsidered”
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Without trying to do something, we simply practice, in the same way as when we are hungry, we eat; when we are tired, we rest.
Maurine Stuart, “Our One and Only Commandment”
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Munindra,
a 20th-century Indian teacher from Bengal, taught that if a meditator
is sitting and he knows that he is sitting, then he is meditating.
Charles Genoud, “The Body as Presence”
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Greetings from Buddhist International Travel Mart.
It is my pleasure to inform you that we are organizing The Buddhist International Travel
Mart (BITM 2023) on 24-26 March 2023 at Lumbini, Nepal.
BITM is an annual market event aimed at promoting Nepalese Buddhist
pilgrimage tourism. It is organized by the Nepal Association of Tour and Travel
Agents (NATTA) with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil
Aviation, the Nepal Tourism Board, and other travel trade organizations. The
main goal of the Mart is to exlore the potential for Buddhist pilgrimage
tourism in Nepal, with a focus on promoting Buddhist heritage sites such as
Lumbini and the Kathmandu Valley.
The Mart provides a platform for business-to-business opportunities between foreign travel operators and Nepalese sellers, offering a chance to exchange and promote Nepalese tourism products and destinations. It also aims to diversify and decentralize Nepalese tourism, which is currently focused on adventure tourism.
The Mart will benefit the local people, tourism entrepreneurs, and related businesses such as hotels, restaurants, and transport companies. Buyers, sellers, national tourism organizations, bloggers/vloggers, media, sponsors, and volunteers can all participate in the event. The event will feature B2B meetings and an inauguration ceremony with spiritual speeches and address by travel experts.
The expected outcomes of BITM 2023 include an increase in tourist arrivals, a niche tourism product, diversification of Nepalese tourism, and support for the livelihood of local people. The Mart will establish Nepal as a premium Buddhist pilgrimage and spiritual destination.
We hope that this Mart serves as a platform for you to showcase the country's products and in turn, connect with genuine buyers. Please note that there will be a first-come-first-serve seating arrangement for 50 buyers and 50 seller agents and organizations.
Please find this circular for your information. We are happy to know your interest for the event.
Greetings from Buddhist International Travel Mart.
It is my pleasure to inform you that we are organizing The Buddhist International Travel
Mart (BITM 2023) on 24-26 March 2023 at Lumbini, Nepal.
BITM is an annual market event aimed at promoting Nepalese Buddhist
pilgrimage tourism. It is organized by the Nepal Association of Tour and Travel
Agents (NATTA) with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil
Aviation, the Nepal Tourism Board, and other travel trade organizations. The
main goal of the Mart is to exlore the potential for Buddhist pilgrimage
tourism in Nepal, with a focus on promoting Buddhist heritage sites such as
Lumbini and the Kathmandu Valley.
The Mart provides a platform for business-to-business opportunities between foreign travel operators and Nepalese sellers, offering a chance to exchange and promote Nepalese tourism products and destinations. It also aims to diversify and decentralize Nepalese tourism, which is currently focused on adventure tourism.
The Mart will benefit the local people, tourism entrepreneurs, and related businesses such as hotels, restaurants, and transport companies. Buyers, sellers, national tourism organizations, bloggers/vloggers, media, sponsors, and volunteers can all participate in the event. The event will feature B2B meetings and an inauguration ceremony with spiritual speeches and address by travel experts.
The expected outcomes of BITM 2023 include an increase in tourist arrivals, a niche tourism product, diversification of Nepalese tourism, and support for the livelihood of local people. The Mart will establish Nepal as a premium Buddhist pilgrimage and spiritual destination.
We hope that this Mart serves as a platform for you to showcase the country's products and in turn, connect with genuine buyers. Please note that there will be a first-come-first-serve seating arrangement for 50 buyers and 50 seller agents and organizations.
Please find this circular for your information. We are happy to know your interest for the event.
