Via LGBTq Nation \\\ Even if you’re “not religious,” your radical queer soul is still divine There’s more than one way to get to heaven, even if you’re a “non-believer.”

 

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Via Daily Dharma: Conditions for Awakening

 

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The conditions for awakening can’t be imported from outside. They have to be grown from the inside, through the quality of one’s own attention, one’s own willingness and readiness. ​ nico hase, “Your Partner Is Not Your Project” ​ CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

 

Via White Crane Institute \\\ 1994 - File under “You Can’t Make This Shit Up”: On this date the United States Pentagon receives a proposal from the Air Force requesting funds to build a "GAY BOMB" that would turn enemy troops Gay.

 

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June 01

1994 - File under “You Can’t Make This Shit Up”: On this date the United States Pentagon receives a proposal from the Air Force requesting funds to build a "GAY BOMB" that would turn enemy troops Gay. The proposal would not come to light until 2007 when the Sunshine Project would discover it through a Freedom of Information Act disclosure. As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior." The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon. In both of the documents, the possibility was canvassed that a strong aphrodisiac could be dropped on enemy troops, ideally one which would also cause "homosexual behavior." The documents described the aphrodisiac weapon as "distasteful but completely non-lethal". The "New Discoveries Needed" section of one of the documents implicitly acknowledges that no such chemicals are actually known. The reports also include many other off-beat ideas, such as spraying enemy troops with bee pheromones and then hiding numerous beehives in the combat area, and a chemical weapon that would give the enemy bad breath. The Wright Laboratory, which had made the proposal, won the 2007 Ig-Nobel Peace Prize for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'Gay bomb' / 'poof bomb' —that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other." However, Air Force personnel contacted were not willing to attend the award ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater to accept the award in person.

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VIa White Crane Institute \\\ Excerpt from Leaves of Grass

 

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Today's Gay Wisdom 2018 - TODAYS GAY WISDOM Excerpt from Leaves of Grass "Recorders ages hence, Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me, Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover, The friend the lover's portrait, of whom his friend his lover was fondest, Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him, and freely pour'd it forth, Who often walk'd lonesome walks thinking of his dear friends, his lovers, Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night, Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him, Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wan dering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men, Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also." Leaves of Grass, 1891 " When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd, And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy, But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn, When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light, When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise, And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy, O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well, And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend, and that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continuously up the shores, I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me, For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, And his arm lay lightly around my breast-and that night I was happy." "I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions, But really I am neither for nor against institutions, (What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?) Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard, And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large that dents the water, Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument, The institution of the dear love of comrades."

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Via Daily Dharma: Humanity’s Virtues

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and the Third Jhāna

 

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\\ Words of Wisdom - May 31, 2026 🍒

 

"What I have noticed has happened to me is that as I extricated myself from my identification with my personality variables so strongly, they started to change. They started to lighten and loosen. To be in relationships with things a different way. They become your style rather than your root identity. As the awareness pulls back, one of the things you see is the way in which your mind creates models of reality and expectations about what is about to happen next - which is a way in which you keep control."   Source: Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 135 – Creation, Creativity and Spirituality

Via GBF \\\ Thangka Exhibition & Talk in the Castro

I was strolling Market Street with Cass and we came across this artist's exhibition of beautiful framed Buddhist thangka paintings (not cloth hangings). 

It's stunning vibrant art - very worth seeing, and just the website provides an amazing education on this type of work. 

The Exhibition at Art House SF

About Tashi Gurung

The gallery has scheduled free talks about: 

• The artist and his world-renowned work
• His process and natural materials 
• The region of Nepal that inspires his work  

Free Talks - Today 1:00 and 4:00pm | June 5, 6, 7, 12, 13

Enjoy!

Love & Light,

Tom Bruein

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