A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Sunday, August 28, 2022
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Via White Crane Institute / KARL HEINRICH ULRICHS
August 28
This is the birth date of German lawyer, writer and Gay Rights pioneer KARL HEINRICH ULRICHS (d. 1895). In the early history of LGBT Rights that includes John Addington Symonds, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Edward Carpenter Ulrichs is one of the most important. He wrote under the pseudonym Numa Numatis till 1868. He was born in Aurich, Hannover and died in L'Aguila, Italy. He is considered the first person to stand in public for the rights of homosexuals. And all this before the word "homosexual," or "heterosexual" for that matter, even existed. Ulrichs is seen today as a pioneer of modern Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender movements.
He studied law at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin (1844-47) and became a junior attorney in the civil service of the Kingdom of Hanover. In 1854 he left state service to become a free-lance journalist and private secretary of a representative to the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main.
In Frankfurt he used embryology to develop a theory of homosexuality that he presented in a series of five booklets (1864-65) titled Forschungen über das Rätsel der mannmännlichen Liebe (Research Into the Riddle of Love Between Men). This he later extended to twelve booklets with the last appearing in 1879.
He assumed that love directed towards a man must be feminine and used the Latin phrase anima muliebris virili corpore inclusa (a female soul trapped in a male body), and he coined the term 'Urning' (Uranian) for such a person. This was a reference to Plato's Symposium in which Pausanias postulates two gods of love, the Uranian (Heavenly) Eros who governs principled male love, whereas the Pandernian (Vulgar) Eros governs heterosexual or purely licentious relations. Károly Mária Kertbeny later invented alternative words such as Homosexualität.
Ulrichs regarded homosexuals as neither criminal nor sick and tried to organize them for their own welfare. In 1864 he was planning to publish a homosexual periodical and in 1870 he started it but it only lasted for one issue through lack of support.
Also on August 28th. 1867 he became the first self-proclaimed homosexual to speak out publicly for homosexual rights when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of all anti-homosexual laws. He was shouted down.
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Via Daily Dharma: Deepen Your Love for the World
The deeper our love for the world gets, the more motivated we become to find solutions to address suffering.
Radhule Weininger, “How to Follow the Bodhisattva Path Without Burning Out”
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Saturday, August 27, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Developing Unarisen Healthy States
Developing Unarisen Healthy States
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One week from today: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States
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Via Daily Dharma: Build Lasting Happiness
Trying to build happiness on a foundation of ego is like trying to build a tower on quicksand.
Pamela Gayle White, “A Slow, True Path”
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Friday, August 26, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures
Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures
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One week from today: Abstaining from Intoxication
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Via Daily Dharma: Practice in Small Ways
Rather
than constantly seeking to eliminate all small irritations from our
lives, we can use them as a basis for developing more patience. If you
emphasize comfort over the practice of patience, your mind will get
weaker and weaker.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, “The Path of Patience"
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Thursday, August 25, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Mental Action
Reflecting Upon Mental Action
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One week from today: Reflecting upon Social Action
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Daily Dharma: Close the Gap
Dharma
practice is an ethical path that leads into that gap between aspiration
and habit; pursuing the ethic of care will gradually close it.
Winston Higgins, “Treading the Path with Care”
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Via White Crane Institute // TRUMAN CAPOTE
TRUMAN CAPOTE, American author died (b. 1924) an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel" and was co-written by an uncredited Harper Lee, Capote’s childhood friend. Lee modeled the character of Dill on Capote, known then as Truman Persons. A recent memoir by Chicago Tribune reporter, Marja Mills, The Mockingbird Next Door, quotes childhood friend of Capote’s, Harper Lee calling him “a psychopath.”
At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. Capote, all of 5 feet 4 inches tall and openly gay in a time when it was common among artists, but rarely talked about, was well known for his distinctive, high-pitched voice and odd vocal mannerisms, his offbeat manner of dress and his fabrications. One of his first serious lovers was Smith College literature professor Newton Arvin, who won the National Book Award for his Herman Melville biography.
Capote often claimed to know intimately people he had in fact never met, such as Greta Garbo. He professed to have had numerous liaisons with men thought to be heterosexual, including, he claimed, Errol Flynn. He traveled in eclectic circles, hobnobbing with authors, critics, business tycoons, philanthropists, Hollywood and theatrical celebrities, royalty, and members of high society, both in the U.S. and abroad. Part of his public persona was a long-standing rivalry with writer Gore Vidal ("Truman Capote has tried, with some success, to get into a world that I have tried, with some success, to get out of."). He famously commented on Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, "[It] isn't writing at all -- it's typing"
The wisdom of Truman Capote
All literature is gossip.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute
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Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
www.whitecraneinstitute.org
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Harsh Speech
Refraining from Harsh Speech
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One week from today: Refraining from Frivolous Speech
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