Friday, May 14, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Breathing In and Breathing Out

 There has to be breathing in as well as breathing out. We need to have both the active and the contemplative.

—Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, “Three Kinds of Laziness”

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

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Via White Crane Institute // ARMISTEAD MAUPIN


Armistead Maupin
1944 -

Today is the birthday of writer, serialist and national treasure ARMISTEAD MAUPIN (1944). Maupin is most famous for his six book "Tales of the City" series of books. The first were originally published in serial forms in Bay Area newspapers. His later novels include "The Night Listener" and "Maybe The Moon" and 2009's "Michael Tolliver Lives." His name, coincidentally, is an anagram of "is a man I dreamt up."

It’s a busy life for The Wonderful Mr. Maupin with a brand spanking new musical based on Tales of the City. And PBS just featured a delightful documentary, The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, He is married to Christopher Turner. His most recent book revisits his beloved characters from Tales, The Days of Anna Madrigal. New York: Harper. 2014. ISBN 978-0062196248.

For more on Armistead Maupin, and maybe to send him a birthday greeting, visit his website at http://www.armisteadmaupin.com/

Happy Birthday Armistead. Long may you wave!

 

Via Daily Dharma: Conjuring Love

 When we are able to arouse love in our hearts without any cause, just because love is the heart’s quality, we feel secure.

—Ayya Khema, “What Love Is”

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Via Lion's Roar // DIY Dharma: You Have Everything You Need

 

DIY Dharma: You Have Everything You Need

Interested in beginning a meditation practice but don’t know where to begin? You have a mind, body, thoughts, and a natural bent toward awakening.
 

Via Lion's Roar // What Is Sangha?

 

What Is Sangha?

Thich Nhat Hanh explains that sangha is more than a community, it’s a deep spiritual practice. 
 

Via Tricycle // Dream Yoga

 

Dream Yoga 
With Andrew Holecek
Now available for self-study 
Your spiritual journey doesn’t have to stop when you fall asleep. The Tibetan Buddhist practice of dream yoga can help you explore your mind while you sleep, providing a number of conditions that affect our waking life, including depression and anxiety, phobias, and bad habits. 
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Via Daily Dharma: Free from Like and Dislike

In a moment of real struggle not to give in to the body’s desire, a new awareness can appear—an awareness that is neither attracted nor repulsed, that is separate and free from the forces of like and dislike.

—Stuart Smithers, “Losing Our Bodies, Losing Our Minds”

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Katharine Hepburn as Sylvia Scarlett
1907 -

On this date the acting genius of stage and screen KATHERINE HEPBURN was born. She's also a Gay diva for those into great acting chops and killer dialogue. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys and two Tony Awards during the course of her more than 70-year acting career.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the greatest female star in the history of American cinema. Do yourself a favor and watch, or re-watch, "Woman of the Year," "Adam's Rib," "African Queen," "Pat & Mike," "Philadelphia Story," and/or "The Lion in Winter." Celebrate a brilliant actor and the remarkably independent woman behind the roles.

There are reliable reports of her – at the very least -- bisexuality, which is not hard to believe. Gore Vidal himself has vouched for his buddy Scotty Bowers, who claims that he set Katharine Hepburn up “with over 150 different women” in his book Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of Stars. Vidal flew to L.A. expressly for the book’s launch party. He wanted to assure attendees that Bowers is totally telling the truth. In a speech, he told party-goers he’s never caught Bowers in a lie in the 60-plus years he’s known him, joking that L.A. is a town “where you can meet 1,000 liars a day.” We’d say that never catching someone in a lie is a little different than saying someone has never told a lie, but hey—good enough for us.

So that settles it: Katharine Hepburn was a very sexually active Lesbian. Case closed! OK...bisexual, maybe.

 

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 12, 2021 💌

 

Together we are all on a journey called life. We are a little broken and a little shattered inside. Each one of us is aspiring to make it to the end. None is deprived of pain here and we have all suffered in our own ways. I think our journey is all about healing ourselves and healing each other in our own special ways. Let’s just help each other put all those pieces back together and make it to the end more beautifully. Let us help each other survive.

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Daily Dharma: Respecting Your Emotions

 If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. 

—Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “Allow for Space”

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