Thrive

A most appropriate piece of art for pride month!!!

Whatever happens, let it happen–you are not particularly looking for pleasure or pain…“If it is better for me to be dead, let me be dead; if it is better for me to be alive, let me be alive. If it is better for me to have pleasure, let me have pleasure. If it is better for me to have pain, let me have pain.” It is a very direct approach, like diving into an ice-cold swimming pool in the middle of winter. It is the idea of having a direct link with reality, very simply, without any scheming at all.-Chögyam Trungpa

From “Transformation of Bad Circumstrances,” in Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, page 89 and 92.