Via Le Monde \\\ 'The monk radiated kindness and love. I thought: I want to be like that': Pierrick's conversion to Buddhism 'Changing Faith' (4/11). Why do people choose a particular religion? Raised Catholic, Pierrick Wattez, 49, found his path to Buddhism through the teachings of the Dalai Lama and through discussions with his godmother.

 

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Observing Pressure

When the mind learns to simply observe pressure, without immediate reaction, something begins to change. The impulses may still arise, but they lose their power. Pressure appears, but it no longer automatically leads to action. ​ Primoz Korelc Hiriko, “Pressure in the Mind” ​ CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

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Via White Crane Institute \\\ RICHARD BARNFIELD

 

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June 13 Born 1574 - RICHARD BARNFIELD, English poet, born (d: 1620); There are, as everyone knows, certain inseparable teams: Gilbert & Sullivan, Cheech and Chong, bagels and lox, ham and eggs, Sodom and Gomorrah. In classical mythology, as in ballet, there are Daphnis and Chloë, the Greek shepherd and his lady love – Daphnis and Chloë, as inseparable as yin and yang, gin and tonic, Ron and Nancy. Not in Richard Barnfield, however. His Affectionate Shepherd (1594) scandalized Renaissance England by describing in florid detail the love of Daphnis and Ganymede, just a couple of guys, foolin’ around. What the fuss was all about is difficult to say since, in the absence of Chloë, Daphnis never exercised his shepherdly option of making it with his favorite sheep, choosing a boy instead. “If it be a sin to love a lovely lad,” wrote Barnfield, “Oh, then sin I.” He was not quite twenty-one when he wrote the poem. His obscure though close relationship with Shakespeare has long made him interesting to students. Richard Barnfield was born in Staffordshire, England. In his youth, he was deeply influenced by Virgil’s work and the 1591 publication of Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, which popularized the sonnet sequence. Best known for his poem “As it fell upon a day,” Barnfield is the only Elizabethan male poet apart from Shakespeare—whom he admired—to address love poems to a man. Little is known about Barnfield’s life and career, but it is thought that his maternal aunt raised him and his sister after his mother died during childbirth. In 1592 he graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford. At the age of twenty-one he published his first two books, The Affectionate Shepherd (1594) and Cynthia (1595), both addressed to “Ganymede.” Originally published anonymously, The Affectionate Shepherd expands upon Virgil’s second eclogue, and its homoerotic themes made Barnfield’s poems controversial for his time.

Today's Gay Wisdom 2018 - Today's Gay Wisdom Sonnet 16 By Richard Barnfield Long have I long’d to see my love again,     Still have I wished, but never could obtain it;     Rather than all the world (if I might gain it) Would I desire my love’s sweet precious gain. Yet in my soul I see him every day,     See him, and see his still stern countenance,     But (ah) what is of long continuance, Where majesty and beauty bears the sway? Sometimes, when I imagine that I see him,     (As love is full of foolish fantasies)     Weening to kiss his lips, as my love’s fees, I feel but air: nothing but air to bee him.     Thus with Ixion, kiss I clouds in vain:     Thus with Ixion, feel I endless pain. Sonnet 17 By Richard Barnfield Cherry-lipped Adonis in his snowy shape,     Might not compare with his pure ivory white,     On whose faire front a poet’s pen may write, Whose roseate red excels the crimson grape, His love-enticing delicate soft limbs,     Are rarely framed to entrap poor gazing eyes:     His cheeks, the lily and carnation dyes, With lovely tincture which Apollo’s dims. His lips ripe strawberries in nectar wet,     His mouth a Hive, his tongue a honeycomb,     Where Muses (like bees) make their mansion. His teeth pure pearl in blushing coral set.     Oh how can such a body sin-procuring,     Be slow to love, and quick to hate, enduring?

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Via Daily Dharma: Our Primordial Nature

 

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Our Primordial Nature

Buddha-nature is described as our primordial nature, undefiled but not recognized by the ordinary mind. It is “like a golden statue wrapped in filthy rags.” When the obscuring veil is lifted, buddhahood is realized. ​ Rob Preece, “The Solace of Surrender” ​ CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Via NYT /// David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

 

David Hockney, photograph by Richard Schmidt David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 The English artist’s colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century. Read more

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Via Daily Dharma: Honoring Things

 

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Honoring Things

You don’t have to feel love or attachment to something to honor it. ​ Hannah Tennant-Moore, “Not Our Bodies, Not Ourselves” ​ CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE