Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Sādhu
"The strength of your mind lies its conviction in the importance of its own actions, its ability to stick with what it knows is skillful; its qualities of mindfulness, concentration and discernment. These are the qualities of mind that determine how you’re going to deal with issues in life as they come up. The more mindful you are, the stronger your concentration, the more likely you are to deal in a skillful way because you’re coming from a position of strength. You not only know what the skillful action is, but you’re also strong enough to actually do it.
"Often we know the right thing to do but we just simply don’t have the strength to do it. And if that’s the way we live, imagine what it’s going to be like when we die. The body will be a lot weaker, the mind will be distracted by all kinds of things -- your thoughts of this, you’re going to miss this and miss that, you’ve only a little time left for this or that. The people around you are all in a turmoil. The mind has to be really strong to put up with a situation like that and not buckle under. And the shape of your mind at that point is going to have a huge impact on how you are reborn. The life you’ve lived is going to have a huge impact as well.
"They compare dying to falling asleep and dreaming, except that in this particular case you can’t come back to the body anymore. When you fall asleep, a little dream world will appear in your mind and you go into it: That’s your first dream. Now the nature of that dream world could be something realistic or something totally fantastic, pleasant or unpleasant. The nature of the dream world that appears has to do both with your past actions -- issues that have been weighing on your mind for a long time -- or your current state of mind.
"The principle that applies as you go to sleep applies at the moment of death as well, except at that point the mind does tend to be a lot weaker, a lot more desperate. It will jump -- especially if it’s untrained -- it’ll jump at anything. If you can train the mind to be more mindful and alert to what’s going on, then if you see something unpromising coming up, you don’t have to jump for it. You realize that you’ve got the choice, and if you learn how to keep in mind the good things you’ve done in life, that makes it easier for good dream worlds to appear at the time. But regardless, the important thing is that how you die is determined by how you live. That’s the issue right now. And so you need the meditation to develop these five strengths..."
- Thanissaro Bikkhu
URGENT House Renovation Campaign - Gofundme...
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"Often we know the right thing to do but we just simply don’t have the strength to do it. And if that’s the way we live, imagine what it’s going to be like when we die. The body will be a lot weaker, the mind will be distracted by all kinds of things -- your thoughts of this, you’re going to miss this and miss that, you’ve only a little time left for this or that. The people around you are all in a turmoil. The mind has to be really strong to put up with a situation like that and not buckle under. And the shape of your mind at that point is going to have a huge impact on how you are reborn. The life you’ve lived is going to have a huge impact as well.
"They compare dying to falling asleep and dreaming, except that in this particular case you can’t come back to the body anymore. When you fall asleep, a little dream world will appear in your mind and you go into it: That’s your first dream. Now the nature of that dream world could be something realistic or something totally fantastic, pleasant or unpleasant. The nature of the dream world that appears has to do both with your past actions -- issues that have been weighing on your mind for a long time -- or your current state of mind.
"The principle that applies as you go to sleep applies at the moment of death as well, except at that point the mind does tend to be a lot weaker, a lot more desperate. It will jump -- especially if it’s untrained -- it’ll jump at anything. If you can train the mind to be more mindful and alert to what’s going on, then if you see something unpromising coming up, you don’t have to jump for it. You realize that you’ve got the choice, and if you learn how to keep in mind the good things you’ve done in life, that makes it easier for good dream worlds to appear at the time. But regardless, the important thing is that how you die is determined by how you live. That’s the issue right now. And so you need the meditation to develop these five strengths..."
- Thanissaro Bikkhu
URGENT House Renovation Campaign - Gofundme...
...Or donations can be mailed to: WILLIAM R WAY PO BOX 206 STONYFORD CA 95979
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Thai Forest Tradition
(Raw fucking tomorrow, at the latest...)
URGENT House Renovation Campaign - Venmo...
...Or donations can be mailed to: WILLIAM R WAY PO BOX 206 STONYFORD CA 95979
URGENT House Renovation Campaign - Venmo...
...Or donations can be mailed to: WILLIAM R WAY PO BOX 206 STONYFORD CA 95979
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
More Gay Bareback Breeding Tomorrow...
Why do people march on D.C.?
URGENT House Renovation Campaign - Venmo...
...Or donations can be mailed to: WILLIAM R WAY PO BOX 206 STONYFORD CA 95979
URGENT House Renovation Campaign - Venmo...
...Or donations can be mailed to: WILLIAM R WAY PO BOX 206 STONYFORD CA 95979
Monday, November 28, 2016
Save Us, President von Munchausen!
I'm pretty sure that nothing can save (as it wants to be saved) today's military-industrial complex, which by the way has become the very abomination Eisenhower warned us about -- many of the up-and-coming young turks of "The Community" are keenly aware of this, even as old-guard factions grasp at straws or are in denial... (And of course, the latter -- poor saps, how my heart kind of goes out to them, though I stand for so much that they typically hate -- would expect much from a presidency that basically jack-knifed coming out of the gate.)
"Forest and Contrail," November 2016
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Thankful...
...For those who came before...
...As well as for those who are presently in my life... And I am most of all thankful for the promise I see in those who shall carry on after we are gone...
...As well as for those who are presently in my life... And I am most of all thankful for the promise I see in those who shall carry on after we are gone...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Monday, August 8, 2016
Sunday, August 7, 2016
Shine On
It gets scary, it can seem to crush everything you are -- even threaten to kill you. But all shall work out for the best. Heaven never isn't a time and place on Earth. You will always become who you knew you could be...
Monday, August 1, 2016
Friday, July 29, 2016
BREAKING (My Political Hymen)
LEWINSKY REFUSES TO ENDORSE CLINTON
Monica Lewinsky released the following statement on Hillary Clinton's run for President:
"I will not vote for Hillary Clinton. The last Clinton Presidency left a bad taste in my mouth. As we get closer to November of this election year, citizens must remember that they cannot trust Hillary Clinton on jobs. The last time she had a meaningful job, she outsourced it to me, and I blew it."
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Monday, July 4, 2016
Apropos of Brexit... (Blech. Sit.)
Fee fie FOE fumble...
(My favorite part, of course, is when the party that fell flat on its face then pops up with a triumphant TA-DA!!!)
(My favorite part, of course, is when the party that fell flat on its face then pops up with a triumphant TA-DA!!!)
Monday, June 27, 2016
人怕出名猪怕肥
...If that helps explain anything to some of you still solving a years-long mystery vis-a-vis yours truly (no shame in that, rest assured.) And by the way: "I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining." - Lily Tomlin
Friday, June 24, 2016
Hospitality Is Sin; Lust Is Virtue; Falsehood Is Pious
Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an old enemy
Take your time, hurry up
Choice is yours, don't be late
Take a rest as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
When I swear that I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
(And I don't have a gun)
When I swear that I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
- Kurt Cobain
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Now I May Not Be Some Uppity, Assassinated Venezuelan Beauty Queen...
...But I dare let slip this audacious gobbet of Morgan Freeman-magnitude speechifyin':
Give a man a fish, and he'll have fish for a day. Teach him how to fish, and chances are he'll be more polite to you than you deserve -- he probably already knew how to fish, and fish better. Nevertheless, he was raised with different, more human, more realistic, more pragmatic values. But don't be too put off if he seems to ignore you altogether; you might be presuming to try to do him a favor right at the moment he's thinking it a higher priority to jump food lines with other looters because, hey, let's face it, the world is a little more complex than you first thought.
#Venezuela #yotambiénsoyhumano #tengosed #tengohambre #tengomiedo
Give a man a fish, and he'll have fish for a day. Teach him how to fish, and chances are he'll be more polite to you than you deserve -- he probably already knew how to fish, and fish better. Nevertheless, he was raised with different, more human, more realistic, more pragmatic values. But don't be too put off if he seems to ignore you altogether; you might be presuming to try to do him a favor right at the moment he's thinking it a higher priority to jump food lines with other looters because, hey, let's face it, the world is a little more complex than you first thought.
#Venezuela #yotambiénsoyhumano #tengosed #tengohambre #tengomiedo
Friday, June 17, 2016
Reminisce On The Love We Shared...
Dreadful, deeply unfunny joke within a joke ad infinitum: Condoleeza Rice was Secretary of State; her main claims to fame were that she was a Sovietologist in a post-Soviet world, as well as a conservative black woman possessed of a damn regrettable 'do. America went to war in Afghanistan anyway, precipitously and forgetful of the Russian example there.
Great moments in history, which should always terrify considering history's inescapable grip on our lives and the world we aim to live in.
Great moments in history, which should always terrify considering history's inescapable grip on our lives and the world we aim to live in.
Monday, June 13, 2016
No Justice, Just Us
Doing my itty-bitty part to help raise awareness, and to try and point out some possibilities for helping fight the good fight:
http://www.orangecountyfl.net/FamiliesHealthSocialSvcs/VeteransServices.aspx#.V18notQrJxA (the services to which they refer clients could probably always use mention or donations...)
http://www.shelterlistings.org/city/orlando-fl.html
http://www.foodpantries.org/ci/fl-orlando
www.thecenterorlando.org
While we continue to abide and continue to be appalled at our government's and law enforcement's response to gun violence and hate crimes, and while we continue to blog, protest, hold vigils, write letters to the editor, and so on, we have above (for starters) real, immediately achievable opportunities to put an answer to atrocities like what happened in Orlando, Florida. The links in this post are listings or connections to services that can always use volunteers, money, in-kind donations, or simple promotion; doing such sends a clear message that love is always more powerful than hate. Even $10 to a food pantry or a gift of children's clothing to a shelter for homeless families can make all the difference in the world to promoting the causes of love for one another and social justice.
Help Orlando, and help us all.
http://www.orangecountyfl.net/FamiliesHealthSocialSvcs/VeteransServices.aspx#.V18notQrJxA (the services to which they refer clients could probably always use mention or donations...)
http://www.shelterlistings.org/city/orlando-fl.html
http://www.foodpantries.org/ci/fl-orlando
www.thecenterorlando.org
While we continue to abide and continue to be appalled at our government's and law enforcement's response to gun violence and hate crimes, and while we continue to blog, protest, hold vigils, write letters to the editor, and so on, we have above (for starters) real, immediately achievable opportunities to put an answer to atrocities like what happened in Orlando, Florida. The links in this post are listings or connections to services that can always use volunteers, money, in-kind donations, or simple promotion; doing such sends a clear message that love is always more powerful than hate. Even $10 to a food pantry or a gift of children's clothing to a shelter for homeless families can make all the difference in the world to promoting the causes of love for one another and social justice.
Help Orlando, and help us all.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Pulse
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and souls deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better than thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more, Death, thou shalt die.
- John Donne
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and souls deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better than thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more, Death, thou shalt die.
- John Donne
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