"…”As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds."
— The Buddha
March 2, 2013
February 6, 2013
Welcome to the Era of the Light Footprint | New Republic
WASHINGTON DIARIST JANUARY 29, 2013 Welcome to the Era of the Light Footprint Obama finally finds his doctrine
January 24, 2013
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day."
— Bertrand Russell
January 17, 2013
Eric Hoffer on “Power”
Absolute power is partial to simplicity. It wants simple problems, simple solutions, simple definitions. It sees in complication a product of weakness - this tortuous path compromise must follow. There is thus a certain similarity between the pattern of extremism and that of absolute power. ~ Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
December 21, 2012
November 28, 2012
Denial
“The entire spiritual dilemma, you know, boils down to only one problem—denial. Denial that everything which is born will die. Denial that everything I want to keep—identity, possessions, friends, family, lovers, health, life—will be lost. That denial, that continual avoidance of this simple, basic, undeniable truth, obscures my true nature by forcing everything I do and everything I think to serve an unconscious strategy—a strategy of denial—so that instead of simply living, which means allowing whatever is to be, and whatever arises to arise, I continually attempt to protect myself against the pain of that simple truth: nothing that I think I have, nothing that I think I am, has any permanence whatsoever. It never did, and it never will.
Everything, even my imagined “self,” awakened or not, dies in every moment, to be replaced in the next moment with a new version of what I think I am. Because such total impermanence is terrifying, we paper it over by creating a story of who I am. A story, we imagine, can continue. But that story, which is only a thought-form, obscures what I really am: the endless awareness in which that story, along with everything else, is born and passes away.
In each moment, be honest. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, to which you can cling for security. Accept that fact—for it is a fact—accept that pain, stop telling yourself the story of denial, and all will become clear without any effort whatsoever.” ~ Robert Saltzman
In each moment, be honest. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, to which you can cling for security. Accept that fact—for it is a fact—accept that pain, stop telling yourself the story of denial, and all will become clear without any effort whatsoever.” ~ Robert Saltzman
November 26, 2012
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November 3, 2012
September 18, 2012
August 22, 2012
Something to brighten your day. I’ve never head this guy before. Funny and cool.
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