Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Finding Ease Exactly as You Are
Awareness is not about trying to be someone else: it’s about finding a sense of ease with you as you are, right now.
—Andy Puddicombe, “10 Tips for Living More Mindfully”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 26, 2021 💌
Since we’re not starting other than from our humanity, all we can do is
use the situations in which we close down as exercises to work on
ourselves, to watch how we lose it again and again. We must be very
compassionate with ourselves, and each time just center again, quiet
again, and begin again.
- Ram Dass -
Lama Foundation, 1983
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Via Lion's Roar // Celebrating Vesak, or “Buddha Day” Vesak falls on May 26th this year. What makes this day special?
Via White Crane : This Day in Gay History // RALPH WALDO EMERSON
This Day in Gay History
May 25
Born
1803 -
On this date RALPH WALDO EMERSON the poet & essayist was born. Emerson had a wild crush on a classmate at Harvard. Martin Gay, the subject of Emerson's growing infatuation, was the subject of numerous entries in Emerson's journals which modern editors have been able to reconstruct. As the scholar Martin Greif has written, "they provide a rare view of the future philosopher in the thrall of same-sex love." With an unembarrassed frankness he wrote in his journal about the disturbing power of the glances he and Gay exchanged.
Emerson wrote of Martin Gay in his notebook, “Why do you look after me? I cannot help looking out as you pass.” Emerson heavily crossed out the Martin Gay journal notes at some later time. He would later tell Walt Whitman to cross out the homoerotic portions of the Calamus cluster of poems in Leaves of Grass. Fortunately for us and for posterity Whitman did not take the "advice." In Emerson's mature life "his craving for friendship and love seldom found adequate satisfaction," as his biographer Stephen Whicher put it.
To experience emptiness is not a descent into an abyss of nothingness but a recovery of freedom.
—Stephen Batchelor, “Nagarjuna’s Verses from the Center”
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)