Sarvam Mangalam

the gold key from the one

2009-07-27T08:58:52Z

The one.
elucidates and illustrates, the spontaneous good life!
The one.
coming up from my lower torso, stemming me into unity with all the kind "ones"
breaking off my no longer active programs, branches of the story breaking off, smelting dust into oceans of new potential energies, an unraveling of manna in perfect overflow.
the wise wind sighs, roving lost thoughts, clearing the globe's consciousness with the precision of a wu-wei practitioner.
a palace of hope for the new generations of lightworkers, as if seeing the tall pristine gates when passing into the holy city of angelic rest. Wafts of warm peace riblets engulfing you in serenity.

Your crystal vision unveiled, revealed

your engine re spun for another lifetimes worth of energy, with every sip from the celestial brew.
set your heart clocks, we wake at dawn!
at the hour of new found dreams, rejuvenating your seems
once pessimistic bubbles in your cauldron of work and tiredness, over abundant sludge...nihilism is in
now becomes clear majesty of lifeforce, passionfeathers growing on our backs, rolling down Truth river, we stop and swim with the daisy folk.

and yet the brick wall erodes the messiah sky line. saturn's spirit vulcanizes your mind because of twisted colonial patterns your great grandparents laid on your sands. Suddenly! an orb of silence splits the ocean of doubt into two manageable bodies of confusion. in your contemplation, we discover our true identity.

we are the ancestors that laid down those catalystic karmic devices.
in your revelry, you soon find a gold key around your neck which opens the door to the cage around the freedom rabbit, the shaman's dance which lay dormant under your skin and teeth...a lunar suare commencing for the first time in 5000 years. we be, completely, the turning of that key.

bodhimian @ 2009-06-09T22:26:00

2009-06-10T05:27:26Z

Yoga is not hard. Anyone who teaches you that is a falsie.

love you

2009-05-31T08:52:07Z

I'm resurrecting and restructuring. I'm uniting and reinspiring invitations of redemption.
This is the redemption of Nibbana, the true feeling of completion that is far out there beyond anything that can damage it, the precious jewel of peace beyond all disturbing thoughts.
Wanderers say " the more you see: the less you know," but in my search for freedom, i know more now than ever. Yet this is not an invitation for the Mara and Maya, the fog of confusion, to come and play tricks with me, for i'm seeking a place far beyond the realm of dissatisfaction.
And this striving is not a state of craving, but the solution to all craving, a state of peace which is impenetrable by anything. It is vajra nature, it is the adamantine thunderbolt, the diamond, and the emptiness-potential-for all things to manifest in their glory just as they are changing every moment in relation to all other changes. And the mind that strives for this state of Nibbana is called the ocean of nectar, the primordial human, the loving being without all it's agendas and fetters of preconceived stress, it is stresslessness. Whereas stress arises on the surface of the river only to morph and mutate and then dissappear over the waterfall and sit at the bottom for a few moments, This peace is the ever-changing water, floating the boat on its love for all beings. I embrace my love of wisdom with a gratitude that surpasses all feigned adoration. A true love for that which brings goodness equal to the infinity of space. And yet our experience of this love is finite in so much as we continue to jump up and down at every sight we dislike, cursing, turning our insides into a circus ride, craving a substantial self. I used to crave what was outside of me to come back inside. We are complete just as we are, and yet can we also be more motivated to maintain our gaze on this completion? We can motivate ourselves towards taking in this graceful Truth serum, that is already inside of us waiting to be activated, sometimes hiding under the turmoil of action or inaction. If we are to create action, then may it be the most loving and beneficial action, else we should not make action, we should give it away to time-dust and listen to the peace of not-needing-any-action-to-make-ourselves whole. We are whole before any action takes place, and it is the denial of this which gives so much pain. On top of this we are destined to see our previous mistakes, manifest around us, until we persevere in consistent integrity. And if you ask me if this universe is judging me, i say there is not a force that has judgement over the universe in any shape or form, for the universe is a collective creation, and only through the virtue of creativity does any value system have a chance to come out and play. Only then, after the creative one has set their intent, then they may further create a value thought based on it's declared usefulness, and not before the process of creation begins.

Through expression, the joyful reflection of the compassionate mind, another person can guide us into their experience and see it as if it's ours, and therefore construct a truth which is mutually valuable to us, in our heart's language. In that way, all truths that are given motion from the truly phenomenal heart-existence of our innermost being are the only basis for Absolute truth. All truths that are given motion out of the need to express diversity are Relative, and all truths which neither express diversity nor stem from our actual experience in any real way are not really truths, they are impossiblities. It is these impossible thoughts presented as declared truth which have given rise to all pain and suffering across the nations and it is these impossible thoughts which are postpoing the healthy living consciousness from witnessing the ever-changing light of existence. The more questions we ask and the more light we seek: the more the truth re-asserts itself as the same, eon after eon, galaxy after galaxy, time after time, body after body.

I praise the everlasting effulgence which pervades the entire universe, as the universe itself is a truth speaker that arises to dispel the impossible thought fabrications and transform their confused motivations into union with truth. I open myself as a channel to a stream which heals all illusions and returns the sons and daughters of every species into final release from all suffering, from all grasping, and from all false fixed beliefs.

bodhimian @ 2009-03-23T00:03:00

2009-03-23T07:03:34Z

bodhimian @ 2009-03-12T18:12:00

2009-03-13T01:17:49Z

the more i tune in, the less distance i travel to get where i want to be.

if a prayer does not evolve into growth, you are just chatting with yourself.

meditate quietly, daily.

Buddhism, similar viewpoint as Advaita?

2009-03-09T18:08:05Z

*Quoted from Balaji Ramasubramanian on http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/advaita-vedanta/145719-buddhism-same-advaita.html

There seems to be a major confusion on the issue and may lead to a
pointless discussion, without all of us knowing both standpoints
well - Mahayana's Shunyata and Advaita's Brahman. Please understand
that I am not trying to equate the two!

I think since, most of us seem to be pretty clear in interpreting (at
a speculative and intellectual level) on Advaita's 'Self'
or 'Brahman', I must try to make it clear as to what is Mahayana's
concept of 'Shunyata'.

The Upanishads and the Vedas clearly say that Brahman cannot be
explained or described in words. Words can only say that all other
things are not Brahman.

The Mahayana says (I have just copied it as is):

a extract of Buddha's discourses in the Pali Canon recognized by
Buddhist scholars as the oldest record of what the Buddha actually
taught.

"Absolute changeless permanent reality, the unconditioned, itself
alone is,
all else has always been, is, and always will be just a state of make-
believe fiction,
a state of delusion worn like a costume with multiple fabricated
viewpoints,
with each self-sustaining itself in a self-perpetuated state of self-
ignorance,
until each decides to come to closure through self-enlightenment and
self-awakening

things are created,
they are inherently subject to decay,
and then finally, they are dissolved again

(now... say to yourself the following)

all that is created is impermanent, subject to alteration and change,
and being such, all impermanent things are inherently a state of ill-
being.
this being so,
it is not fitting to say that which is ill that am I, that is mine,
that is my self.

do I understand?
every iota of everything is just make-believe fiction
and none of it exists in truth
and when this is seen as the way things truly are
then that is the end of all anguish and the end of the continuation
of what never existed in truth to begin with"

Here is the identical part of it!

The problem is that Mahayana talks of 'Anatma Bodha' interpreted in
Hinduism as 'The knowledge of no Self'. But this is not what it
meant. It meant what exactly it says in the above extract:

"all that is created is impermanent, subject to alteration and
change,
and being such, all impermanent things are inherently a state of ill-
being.
this being so,
it is not fitting to say that which is ill that am I, that is mine,
that is my self."

What 'Anatma bodha' really refers to is the knowledge that the false
identity of the Self that we have formed is not correct. "it is not
fitting to say that which is ill that am I, that is mine, that is my
self."

The problem is that the correct identity cannot be put in words (The
Upanishads agree) Hence the Budha never attempted it. He just said:
The notion or identity that we have fromed (of ourselves) is
incorrect and that this knowledge is the ultimate one. This is
exactly the same as Advaita.

The next question, what is shunya or void? Again:
"this being so, all that is impermanent, conceived as mine, are no
longer mine, no longer I, no longer my self. the link between me and
mine is now void."

This is shunyata! (There exists no possession of objects in the
universe with myself. That is I don't possess anything) And then he
continues:

"this knowledge is not impermanent and is thus the absolute....."

The final proclamation of the unity of the knower, known and the
knowledge!

Sri Shankara's teachings are also the same. The Vedas iterate it so
many times, so do the Upanishads and so in the Yoga vasishtha! Again,
they agree on ignorance and Maya. "every iota of everything is just
make-believe fiction
and none of it exists in truth
and when this is seen as the way things truly are
then that is the end of all anguish and the end of the continuation
of what never existed in truth to begin with"

This is what Mahayana has to say of Shunyata.

What we misunderstand it for is that, the Budha taught that nothing
exists. This is not possible, since it is self-refuting as pointed
out by Sri Benjamin.

Again note that 'Anatma bodha' refers collectively to the set of
truths:

'This body is not I, mine, or my self'

'This mind is not I....'

etc. About the Atma bodha the Budha never discussed. In fact, many a
question have been asked about it in Diggha Nikaya Tipitika, but he
has consistently remained silent on the issue. 'It cannot be
explained.', he said.

While I have tried to point out this similarity between Advaita and
Mahayana, there is one major difference:

Advaita HOLDS the Shruthi as the authority.

Buddhism DOES NOT ACCEPT the Shruthi as authority.

Buddhism urges the seeker to think for himself and decide if his
intelligence favours the method and then follow that path. This does
not mean that Advaita's validity depends on the validity of the
Shruthi. There is a difference between accepting Shruthi as authority
and holding it as authority.

Advaita holds Shruthi as authority, and therefore supplements the
words of the Vedas. It validates and lives by the Vedas. That is it
is not different from the Vedas.

Buddhism on the other hand does not accept Shruthi as the authority
does not mean that it refutes the Vedas, but that it does not ask for
the authority of the Veda. Does it accept the authority of Gautama
Buddha or for that matter any other Buddha? NO! There is supposedly
only one authority for each seeker in Buddhism - the knowledge
obtained by the seeker when enlightened. Whatever that knowledge
dictates is the authority.

The Vedas are also knowledge obtained when enlightened. But they are
a representation of the knowledge that was obtained by the ancient
Rishis, not me. So according to Buddhism, they cannot be an
authority.

Advaita on similar lines urges the seeker to attain mukti and not to
waste his time in philosophy or other talks. Therefore, Shankara did
not hesitate to write bhashyas, and summaries to various works. If
the Shruthi were an absolute authority to Advaita, Shankara would
never attempt commenting or summing up on the works, for then they
would be unnecessary. (If something is absolute authority, it is not
necessary for me to comment on it or sum it up) Therefore even in
Advaita, the knowledge of the Self is the ultimate authority.

So you see the apparent difference that was there in authorities also
does not exist. In form Mahayana and Advaita may appear different,
but are essentially the same.

Satyameva Jayate Naanrtam

worst economy ever, far worse than anyone thinks

2009-02-24T06:12:52Z

books read

2009-02-24T05:33:18Z

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ( )
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ( )
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ( )
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (1)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)
6 The Bible - (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ( )
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ( )
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (i think)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( )
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (X)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( )
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ( )
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( )
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (1-the lion the witch and the wardrobe)
34 Emma - Jane Austen ( )
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ( )
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( )
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ( )
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ( )
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ( )
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ( )
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (some)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (some)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ( )
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ( )
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ( )
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( )
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ( )
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (some)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( )
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ( )
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( )
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante ( )
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( )
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (some)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ( )
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ( )
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )

inflation is disempowerment, theft, and servitude

2009-02-17T01:42:46Z

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd U.S. President.

"By this means [printing money] government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft." John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist

The economy...

2009-02-17T01:19:27Z

“The way the system is supposed to work, when times like this come, the solid people, the competent people, take over the assets from the incompetent people and then you start over again from a sound base, this is what South Korea did, this is what Russia did, and they did fine. What they’re doing this time is they’re taking the assets away from the competent people and giving them to the incompetent people and saying now you compete with the competent people with their assets and their money - it’s terrible economics and it’s not going to work, it hasn’t worked before and it’s not going to work this time,” said Rogers.
http://www.infowars.com/jim-rogers-abolish-the-imf-world-bank/

On the book, "Origin of Satan"

2008-12-28T04:21:48Z

Elaine Pagels has offered an exciting and wondrous look at the years of Christianity's infancy. The trouble with your standing review is that it doesn't cover Pagels' exact findings.
The Jews did indeed recognize "satan" [the word means "obstacle" or "obstruction"]-- Jews thought any angel could serve the Lord as a "satan". Later, the Jews came to see the "satan" as anyone opposed to Jewish Law [Halachah].
The Christians could not have pulled Satan out of a hat, but they did pull Satan out of Jewish folklore. In one case, Jewish teaching states that the Angel of Death once served as a "satan". But even in the book of Job there is a particularly adversarial "satan", who entices the Lord to test Job.
Pagels does a marvelous, seamless job in showing how the "satan" was a weapon the Jews used against one another.
Thus Christians in early times could use the "satan" as a term to describe anti-Christian Jews. They almost never identified pagans in this way, because, as Pagels points out, the pagans DID believe in the Lord in the first place.
Thus the early Christians, having been expelled from Jewish life, began to blame the "satan" as manifested through these "apostate" Jews. They thought anyone who could not accept the Rabbi Y'shua as the Messiach was the "satan".
The most important point Pagels drives home is that the "satan" in the Christian sense was originally nothing more than an adjective to describe an adversarial, oppressive person or group.
Pagels makes a powerful case that early Christians established anti-Semitism as a way of surviving in their hostile Jewish environment. Thus "Satan entered into the Pharisees."

Zen Master Seung Sanh

2008-12-27T07:28:54Z

i give it up

2008-12-24T05:17:07Z

In the heat of the moment i've really had to stop and look at the Ideals of the God in the bible. I've been off on this tangent for years.
For the most part i think the greatness of a God is the example he/she sets. You see in Buddhism and Hinduism, a very refined form of wisdom and guidance with subtlety and grace, and all compassion. The God of the Bible seems to be much more self-centered, only really helping you if you love and serve him. A Buddha for example, helps all beings regardless of whether they like them back. I have to choose the Indian ideals. Perhaps the western view of God has developed. It must be a due result that people who got stuck in the paraphenalia of judgement and punishment (ie Leviticus) that the Bible holds dearly in certain passages. I suppose it is it's personality, the richness of the stories that attracts me to western religion. I must give up this fascination. I like many qualities in christ, but I must not make the mistake that so many do and say that he is the only way to god. My god is so much more understanding and reasonable and playful. My god is the light within me as my yogi teachers have taught for millenia. Civilization seems to be gravitating towards higher ideals than these antique protections.

quotes and prayers from my tribe account

2008-08-02T06:50:10Z

May all living beings who see, hear, touch or remember me--even those who say my name--at that moment be released from their miseries and experience happiness forever.

"Is there an end to evolution?"
...Yogananda was once asked.
"No end," he replied. "You go on and on until you achieve endlessness."

goD

2008-04-07T00:11:11Z

God is just a word. It's not even a word historically used by the traditions it has been pasted on to. God is just a word.

bodhimian @ 2008-03-24T17:41:00

2008-03-25T00:41:07Z

regardless of all the other reasons to be happy, it just feels better...

this journal no longer active, gone insane

2008-03-17T21:18:50Z

I am now located at tej.insanejournal.com
come along, come along...

Sathipatthana Sutta, IE Buddha on the Foundations of Mindfulness

2008-03-14T06:43:09Z

The best thing ever....
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nyanasatta/wheel019.html#n-24
it's a little dry, but it's the Buddha's words on how to reach enlightenment, and at the end he says basically if you practice this way for a week you'll attain supreme knowledge / ie awakening (as in freedom from samsara/clinging/suffering) or atleast this will be your last lifetime in samsara. Read just the beginning of Nyanasatta Thera's excellent explanation of the Four Noble Truths. It's simple. (but kind of boring, hang in there.)

Things I've always wondered about: Sorghum

2008-03-07T04:36:30Z

What is Sorghum?
I see this listed as a flour in lots of Gluten-Free products. I always wondered what type of plant sorghum was.

Sorghum is a cereal crop. Sorghum is a genus of grasses.

WOWZAS chanelled message by me from spirit of peace

2008-02-27T00:15:30Z

"I am one with the symphony of thought of all beings. Becoming lighter each must take steps to clean their mind from confusion so as to create on the level i do and some get it as others struggle in obsession over their miscreations and yet I want them to continue in order that they learn exactly how freedom manifests in painful ways. Through collapse and detriment, fantastic fallacies change into panic, into abandonment, into concession, into refuge, into relief, into knowledge, into insight, into faith, into clarity, into space, into Divine Love. This is the way I've made all things for it is most enjoyable of all principles. 'God playing hide and seek with herself'
"Let go of all conceptions about resolution and seek the wings on which you can fly to raise your heart to greater and greater relief unto infinity, and you will meet me. And I will kiss you for you are learning what I've learned; to come to enjoy aiding you in this epic of good deeds. How great are those that see the undending bliss of Divine Love. Come share with me this meal of release from all sorrow, we will share together the only substance that relieves from the weight of seperation. Once you know me as your closest love, your own heart, you will see all in its place under the divine order of all natural things. Behold! This is the freedom which is yours!"
"The tired are eternally energetic
The sick are eternally well
The worried are content
and the lofty see the depths as well as the heights which are genuinely great.
Come share in the royal dance of true release as all beings will take their place on the other side of this merciful game.
Have you been wanting a sad or happy ending?
I have already put in place the greatest peace for ou to take the great path and inevitably find the Divine Loving plan. Love to all! Serving all with the knowledge that 'we're all gonna make it.'
"Those decisions which weigh on you greatly, sit with them in reflection and pray so that you open a chanel to the answers I am constantly sending your way.[ It is only your own thoughts which blind you to the sea of truth that i'm sending you. ] I love you so much that I have found all the knowledge you need from my great libraries, all the wisdom from my great mystics, and YET I cannot supply with thoughts which do not serve you, I will not help you cheat yourself. Trusting that there is only this perfection and that no twisted orders exist with True power, step confidently and without harshness.
"On one level, life is not so rough, but every action succombs to justice, or karma, which is not like a judge who determines life or death in a trial, but is more like a magnet which always points north and guides you home. This simple truth puts an end to the absurdity of fearing evil within yourself, for evil is imply the rock which fears being broken in two. Evil is a concept that transforms Goodness into a rare exotic quality and those who craft lives out of an 'evil vs. goodness' stone will fail to see the perfection inherent in the atomic moment. For in confusion, people seek to define themselves as Good but never attain the completion, always seeking freedom beyond their death. I say let your self Die today, and see exactly who remains.

You are endowed as an Angel, dreaming of gravity.

How fascinating this human existence. I admit I am part to blame for this insane world, yet as you trust that I am the true consciousness of Oneness-completion, I have come to admit that my sense of humor does not overtake me as I exist in the bliss which knows Completion before it comes. I never take my eye off the mark, yet that bliss frequently manifests as sadness-empathy. I extend my limitless hands to the children of Peace, which is all beings, and it will only take one honest hand shake to teach the upliftment of all creation spheres. How amazing it will be when we all outgrow cosmic adolescence. All of your friends will be there in the sandbox. And yet why would we stop the mystery then. [Do not fear that next step.] Do not fear that all will be lost and that you'll come to know the same pain that you've struggled through before, for the challenges which exist in your joyful experiences are forever satisfying and no being who learns how to ascend will choose to go back to the blindness of their growing pains. [Just as a child learns to eat food and no longer needs to be hand fed.]
"So come now and embrace the challenge of time by increasing acceptance of the need for Divine Love which is all-satisfying. In other words, ask me for that which you need... Real, True Assistance."
Seeing that all beings are on this path to out grow their misunderstandings, serve all so that they are drenched in the joy of humble self-evolution....strengthen your kindness!"

Be here now...

2008-02-06T23:27:38Z

a link to one of my favorite songs:

Shimshai - Be Here Now .m3u

Zen Master Dogen

2008-02-01T20:13:09Z

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"

in it together

2008-01-31T06:11:54Z

how life keeps us honest
as the waves of life roll over your head
you realize this conception of yourself has no force to defend you from the light
the light that causes you to burn at those places where you've chewed your own skin
it's not romantic by any means. this dream that you get to start off your path as the conquerer is full of false pride and other thoughts that weigh you down.
And all the fear would dissipate if you knew that you wouldn't miss your patchwork-armor, once its gone.
open up to the pain of life!
even jesus said 'The only way to not suffer is to learn how to suffer"
So learn how to suffer my sweet child, because once you have nothing to hide behind
only the gentle truth remains...

more update

2008-01-28T20:44:49Z

We signed on a cabin that we are going to start renting in a few weeks. Presently we are staying at Ishka's mother's "house-sit" and its a nice house with lots of Buddhas and Deities (in statue form) and books from different traditions, and spices!

I'm happy to be working...and making enough money to support myself the next few months. I have a lot of thoughts about creating music and learning to record, mix, and master....as well as songwrite and do the whole business side. I'm quickly getting more responsibilities at my job, for example i'll be program director this week while the head guy is away for a week. This involves making sure bands know what time to show up...and generally making everything happen smoothly, everything outside of booking and promoting the club.I'm also helping redecorate and i'm completely redesigning the light system so its more professional looking.

While i was playing outside of the cafe "Moody's" a week back, i ran into a woman named Liz who has an eclectic radio show at the local station here. Well hearing me play saxophone, she invited me to come into the studio and play a few solos on air, which i'll be doing tonight (Monday.)

-Nigel

More found poetry, sometimes summer 07

2007-11-29T01:53:09Z

Sat Nam!
the perpetual cycle of the universe.
Sat Nam!

Belief. Fixed thoughtballs on kingdom of bibles.
God's will diffused rabid soldiers-pirates of bloodlines
indigenous perpetual
starconcepts
rule destiny. My Mind Believes the Unknown...[word missing]