"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
--G.K. Chesterton
"The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred.../Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you."
--Walt Whitman
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According to the Buddha, right speech is a statement that is timely, true, kind, helpful (connected to liberation), and spoken with a mind of good-will. Let us all try to observe this precept.
From yesterday's Boston Globe, word of an unusual book-signing planned in Waitsfield, Vermont:
At The Tempest Book Shop, the paperback books won't be the only things without jackets Thursday.
A "clothing optional" book signing event will be held by nudity author Jim C. Cunningham, with customers invited to leave their clothes at the door.
"The reason for this is to 'put our bodies where our mouths are,' living what we preach," Cunningham said. "The public are invited to express their solidarity with our message by also donning their birthday suits upon entering the book store."
The event is scheduled for 6 p.m., which is after the shop's usual closing time. And there are rules: Everyone who plans to strip must bring a towel, and there's no gawking....
Cunningham's 596-page "Nudity & Christianity" book contains no pictures. It's packed with biblical references to nudity and other citations that support his view that nudity is natural, not erotic, and that clothing -- generally -- should be optional.
Well, they do say that the cure for stage fright is to imagine your audience naked.
