"Can a 'queer' meditate?" is the question. The counter-question is, "What's a 'queer'?"
If it simply means "sexually non-normative," welcome to the clurb. Who's "normative" nowadays?
If it means something more specific, it'll have to be specified. Here's a handy LGBTQI+ Dictionary: List of LGBTQ+ terms (stonewall.org.uk).
Ooh! Wee! U b u so I can be me! (WQ) |
Oh, look! You're a unicorn, a snowflake, a unique and indefinable set of skandhas (Five Aggregates clung to as self). If there's no self, how can there be a "queer" or anything else?
So "don't just do something, sit there." Sit. It means meditate. But before there's meditation -- stillness absorbing into a single object of attention with its attendant bliss, coherence, and clarity.
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Fly your fun flag. You be you. You only live many, many times, so enjoy it. Stand up, stand proud, and sit down already; you made your point.
Meditation is much deeper. It's a practice. Like mindfulness, it helps all beings in all of their endeavors. A criminal has as much or more to gain from becoming more mindful than an honest person, like a greedy person stands to gain more from letting go and sharing.
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