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Sunday, January 4, 2026
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and the Second Jhāna
Via FB \\\ ✨ PLAN FOR 2026: A QUIET, STRONG, MEANINGFUL LIFE ✨
PLAN FOR 2026: A QUIET, STRONG, MEANINGFUL LIFE 2026 is not about proving anything to anyone.
Stay PrivateNot everyone deserves access to your thoughts, plans, pain, or progress.
Privacy protects your energy. Growth happens faster when it’s not constantly exposed to opinions, jealousy, or noise.
Work SmartHard work matters, but clarity matters more.
Choose effort with direction. Learn skills. Improve focus. Stop burning yourself just to look busy.
Eat HealthyFood is not just fuel for the body — it shapes the mind.
What you eat affects your mood, discipline, clarity, and long-term health. Respect your body; it carries you through life.
Talk LessSilence builds power.
Not every thought needs expression. Not every plan needs announcement. Let results speak. Listen more than you respond.
Do BetterNot perfect — better.
Better habits. Better boundaries. Better choices.
Compare yourself only to who you were yesterday.
Live LifeStop postponing joy.
Life isn’t a rehearsal. Be present. Laugh. Walk. Breathe deeply. Appreciate small moments — they are the real wealth.
Be KindKindness is strength, not weakness.
Be gentle with others, but also with yourself. Compassion creates peace where ego creates conflict.
Stay HumbleSuccess without humility creates emptiness.
Stay grounded. Stay teachable. Remember: titles fade, character remains.
Avoid DramaDrama drains life-force.
Not every invitation deserves your presence. Choose calm over chaos. Distance is sometimes the healthiest response.
HealUnhealed wounds repeat themselves.
Face what hurts. Sit with discomfort. Let go of old pain instead of carrying it into the future.
GrowGrowth is quiet, slow, and deeply personal.
You won’t hear it happening — like a tree, it just grows. One day, you look back and realize you’re stronger, calmer, wiser.
2026 is about peace, discipline, and self-respect.Not loud success.
Not validation.
Just a life that feels right — inside.
Walk gently.
Grow steadily.
Live fully.
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: Practicing Gratitude
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States
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Via White Crane Institute \\\ Today's Gay Wisdom
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Today's Gay Wisdom  2022 - After researching and writing this collection for more than a decade, it was a pleasant surprise to discover some new bit of Gay history one afternoon. Listening to All Things Considered on a drive home to upstate New York from Connecticut on New Year’s Day, we listened to author and biographer Mosette Broderick discussing her book, Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age (Knopf ISBN-10: 0394536622), a multiple biography of the three architects who shaped the American architectural scene well into the 20th century (the firm still exists, though under a different name, now). I nearly drove off the road when she dropped this little tidbit into the conversation. “It’s quite clear from their letters that something happened between them while they traveled in Italy.” The “them” she refers to is no less than architect Stanford White and his longtime collaborator – and now, it would seem, lover – August Saint-Gaudens. Yes, Stanford White was eventually (and now one might suggest “ironically”) shot by the irate cuckolded husband of actress Evelyn Nesbitt, Philadelphia plutocrat Harry K. Thaw. And yes, August Saint-Gaudens was a married man. As the French say chacun à son goût! And as we say: Whatever. In the book Broderick goes into great detail about the relationship, but some particular things jump off the page to the careful reader. Though Saint-Gaudens was, indeed, married, it seems that this was a classic marriage of convenience, particularly for Saint-Gaudens for whom the marriage meant financial security found in the wealth of his wife and her family. When she attempted to make “an arrangement” for White with her own sister, White wrote to friends protesting, “’I am sure that she – or any other girl – is not for me.” Broderick goes on, “White’s remarks about women and marriage seem to indicate a lack of interest in any serious relationship. Indeed, beyond a generic reference to “pooty” girls, there is little other indication of ending his bachelor status.” Oh those bachelors! “Pooty” girls. Indeed. But perhaps the most telling…and dare we say romantic...story Broderick relates is of the two men’s sojourn together in Italy. “While in Italy alone with Gus [August Saint-Gaudens] who had been in Italy twice before and could act as a guide, something happened between the two of them that cannot be fully ascertained. White’s letters, which were carefully edited by his son in the Depression years, contain references to an incident that almost cost the men their friendship. With an ocean between them in the following months each writes the other admitting blame and urging the other not to be too serious about what happened. Gus seems to do the bulk of the apologizing for his behavior. The language used by the two—who address each other as “beloved” and even “doubly beloved” and sign their missives as “ever lovingly thine”—indicates a possible pass made at White by Saint-Gaudens. Although probably the act was rejected, an ambiguity toward homosexual moments appears in their letters from this point forward; both words and drawings seem to indicate a shared experience, and their old motto Kiss My Ass, used as an ending for letters, becomes more serious when signed with graphic cartoon drawings.” | ||
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