May all beings be liberated from the suffering of poverty and hunger.
May all beings abide in a just world.
May all beings dwell in beloved community.
May all beings live in peace and harmony with one another and with the natural environment.
May all beings be free.
The
perfection of generosity challenges us to identify our expectations,
projections, and attachments—those things we think we need or don’t need
in order to have a “perfect” life—and find a way to release and go
beyond them.
Lama Tsomo, “The Depth of Generosity: A Reflection for Giving Tuesday”
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Today's Gay Wisdom 
2022 -
After researching and writing this collection for more than a decade, it was a pleasant surprise to discover some new bit of Gay history one afternoon. Listening to All Things Considered on a drive home to upstate New York from Connecticut on New Year’s Day, we listened to author and biographer Mosette Broderick discussing her book, Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age (Knopf ISBN-10: 0394536622), a multiple biography of the three architects who shaped the American architectural scene well into the 20th century (the firm still exists, though under a different name, now). I nearly drove off the road when she dropped this little tidbit into the conversation. “It’s quite clear from their letters that something happened between them while they traveled in Italy.” The “them” she refers to is no less than architect Stanford White and his longtime collaborator – and now, it would seem, lover – August Saint-Gaudens. Yes, Stanford White was eventually (and now one might suggest “ironically”) shot by the irate cuckolded husband of actress Evelyn Nesbitt, Philadelphia plutocrat Harry K. Thaw. And yes, August Saint-Gaudens was a married man. As the French say chacun à son goût! And as we say: Whatever. In the book Broderick goes into great detail about the relationship, but some particular things jump off the page to the careful reader. Though Saint-Gaudens was, indeed, married, it seems that this was a classic marriage of convenience, particularly for Saint-Gaudens for whom the marriage meant financial security found in the wealth of his wife and her family. When she attempted to make “an arrangement” for White with her own sister, White wrote to friends protesting, “’I am sure that she – or any other girl – is not for me.” Broderick goes on, “White’s remarks about women and marriage seem to indicate a lack of interest in any serious relationship. Indeed, beyond a generic reference to “pooty” girls, there is little other indication of ending his bachelor status.” Oh those bachelors! “Pooty” girls. Indeed. But perhaps the most telling…and dare we say romantic...story Broderick relates is of the two men’s sojourn together in Italy. “While in Italy alone with Gus [August Saint-Gaudens] who had been in Italy twice before and could act as a guide, something happened between the two of them that cannot be fully ascertained. White’s letters, which were carefully edited by his son in the Depression years, contain references to an incident that almost cost the men their friendship. With an ocean between them in the following months each writes the other admitting blame and urging the other not to be too serious about what happened. Gus seems to do the bulk of the apologizing for his behavior. The language used by the two—who address each other as “beloved” and even “doubly beloved” and sign their missives as “ever lovingly thine”—indicates a possible pass made at White by Saint-Gaudens. Although probably the act was rejected, an ambiguity toward homosexual moments appears in their letters from this point forward; both words and drawings seem to indicate a shared experience, and their old motto Kiss My Ass, used as an ending for letters, becomes more serious when signed with graphic cartoon drawings.” | ||
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To
maintain a deep, sustained practice of mindfulness is to consistently
disidentify with the experience of self as willing agent, to let go of
the obsessive need to discriminate, judge, and choose.
C. W. Huntington, Jr., “Are You Looking to Buddhism When You Should Be Looking to Therapy?”
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The root of fear is the feeling of separateness that can exist here,
within oneself. The root of the fear is within the model one has of
oneself. That’s where fear starts. Once that feeling of separation
exists, then you process everything from either inside or outside in
terms of that model. It then keeps reinforcing the feeling of
vulnerability, because there are incredibly powerful forces moving both
inside and outside of you.
The transformative process of spiritual work is reawakening to the
innocence of going behind that model of separation that one has, that
cuts you off, that made you a tiny little fragile somebody. A lot of the
power comes from a freeing of our own fragility.
- Ram Dass -
We always practice together. Even when we’re sitting alone, we’re practicing together.
Norman Fischer, “We Are Our Relationships”
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