"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Tradition
The Tao does not speak of itself
So the Two came forth to describe but One
The One body is a mountain – knowing sun and shade
The One body is a stream – being swift yet still
The One body is a pine – yielding but strong
Harmony with Yin and Yang, there is nothing wrong
The landscape is forever intimate, knowing when to stop and begin
The One body is never divided in Yang and Yin
So the Two came forth to describe but One
The One body is a mountain – knowing sun and shade
The One body is a stream – being swift yet still
The One body is a pine – yielding but strong
Harmony with Yin and Yang, there is nothing wrong
The landscape is forever intimate, knowing when to stop and begin
The One body is never divided in Yang and Yin
GOING HERE
Some people just can’t sit still – they got to go all around in circles, see this and that, and forget about that stuff under their feet – what’s that? Oh, its HERE. Well excuse me for butting in but I’m HERE, where are you? What’s the problem with just stopping for a second, or even for a day, but sorry to trouble you for you got the whole year planned out and you can’t be bothered to stop until you get there. But where are you actually going? Well you can run in circles all you want but what happens is that you end up forgetting yourself, because you’re never completely HERE to think about it. and what’s the trouble with just stopping for a moment to see your reflection, no not the mirror to see how you look for the dinner you have tonight then you got to make sure that its all tidy and in order on the outside cause you know that its got to cover up what it really looks like on the inside. what it is – is that your afraid of what might reflect back to you when you stop – so you keep going only to let yourself forget about it until one of two things happens: either all this mess builds up on the inside, where the pressure becomes too great cause you haven’t been paying any attention to it – then – boom the mess is released in a fury of tears and you’ve lost control - you are forced to feel all that which you have been running from – well, not forced to because its natural, just that you have been delaying all those little guys saying we need attention and your just delaying having to deal with them, and then finally they all get together and protest and break down the castle doors and demand to get their issues resolved – they just want justice. That’s option number one and I’ve seen it happen. Option number two is stopping for a minute and letting someone like me talk you into just sitting for a minute and playing a game called who can be silent the longest – allowing you finally to arrive to that place you’ve been running to, you thought it was behind your back but now its in front of you. The HERE is telling you to take off your shoes and stay a while. The Here is telling you how to deal with those guys lined up behind that big door you put up, one by one. whispering in your ear that you are all you ever need and that you’ve got it right HERE. Both options are difficult, but one involves a lot less suffering to learn an important lesson – I cant tell you, I cant, but what I can do is point you in the right direction where we don’t have to be running anymore, where we don’t have to have a check list to make it look like we’ve gotten things done – because once you sit to let this hurried you take in some oxygen, take in some serenity, then you just might realize that you’ve done it all before and it always seemed the same, I mean you didn’t actually go anywhere at all and you’ve been carrying all this suffering around so why not try something new that is actually doing nothing at all, but then you might find out that you were doing this all along – nothing. So why waste the energy when you don’t have to do anything for the same results? If you put all that energy into HERE, then you might actually go places…..I’ve seen it.
Some people just can’t sit still – they got to go all around in circles, see this and that, and forget about that stuff under their feet – what’s that? Oh, its HERE. Well excuse me for butting in but I’m HERE, where are you? What’s the problem with just stopping for a second, or even for a day, but sorry to trouble you for you got the whole year planned out and you can’t be bothered to stop until you get there. But where are you actually going? Well you can run in circles all you want but what happens is that you end up forgetting yourself, because you’re never completely HERE to think about it. and what’s the trouble with just stopping for a moment to see your reflection, no not the mirror to see how you look for the dinner you have tonight then you got to make sure that its all tidy and in order on the outside cause you know that its got to cover up what it really looks like on the inside. what it is – is that your afraid of what might reflect back to you when you stop – so you keep going only to let yourself forget about it until one of two things happens: either all this mess builds up on the inside, where the pressure becomes too great cause you haven’t been paying any attention to it – then – boom the mess is released in a fury of tears and you’ve lost control - you are forced to feel all that which you have been running from – well, not forced to because its natural, just that you have been delaying all those little guys saying we need attention and your just delaying having to deal with them, and then finally they all get together and protest and break down the castle doors and demand to get their issues resolved – they just want justice. That’s option number one and I’ve seen it happen. Option number two is stopping for a minute and letting someone like me talk you into just sitting for a minute and playing a game called who can be silent the longest – allowing you finally to arrive to that place you’ve been running to, you thought it was behind your back but now its in front of you. The HERE is telling you to take off your shoes and stay a while. The Here is telling you how to deal with those guys lined up behind that big door you put up, one by one. whispering in your ear that you are all you ever need and that you’ve got it right HERE. Both options are difficult, but one involves a lot less suffering to learn an important lesson – I cant tell you, I cant, but what I can do is point you in the right direction where we don’t have to be running anymore, where we don’t have to have a check list to make it look like we’ve gotten things done – because once you sit to let this hurried you take in some oxygen, take in some serenity, then you just might realize that you’ve done it all before and it always seemed the same, I mean you didn’t actually go anywhere at all and you’ve been carrying all this suffering around so why not try something new that is actually doing nothing at all, but then you might find out that you were doing this all along – nothing. So why waste the energy when you don’t have to do anything for the same results? If you put all that energy into HERE, then you might actually go places…..I’ve seen it.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
The beautiful lights reflected daily
Pregnant women and pastels
Grey men and grey beards
Walking sticks and hobbles
The ones in neck braces
Children with chocolate on their faces
Triplets and twin smiles
The ones sitting and holding hands
Asian ladies and Mercedes
Enthusiastic stylists and invitations
Coffee cake bakers and talkative shoppers
The cashier offering nickels
Task givers and task takers
The teenage music fakers
Last minute lecturing and tea searching
Business men and business cards
Motorcycle couples thinking hard
Black men in plaid and black ear hair
The Cell phone glued with gold flair
Large sunglasses and divorced mothers
Angles sparkling and walking in the sun
Pregnant women and pastels
Grey men and grey beards
Walking sticks and hobbles
The ones in neck braces
Children with chocolate on their faces
Triplets and twin smiles
The ones sitting and holding hands
Asian ladies and Mercedes
Enthusiastic stylists and invitations
Coffee cake bakers and talkative shoppers
The cashier offering nickels
Task givers and task takers
The teenage music fakers
Last minute lecturing and tea searching
Business men and business cards
Motorcycle couples thinking hard
Black men in plaid and black ear hair
The Cell phone glued with gold flair
Large sunglasses and divorced mothers
Angles sparkling and walking in the sun
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
A visible night
There’s a people that’s invisible
That’s why we’re here
We offer our solidarity
For eye opening light to be there
We accept the aching bones
The lone concrete for this night
For my brothers and sisters
Who don’t deserve to live in fright
For a country that we’ve never seen
For a people that we’ve never met
The possibility of pervading peace
The sustainability of one society
We go without certain needs
Even our prayers prayed on their knees
That’s why we’re here
We offer collectivity
For soul strengthening love to be there
There’s a people that’s invisible
That’s why we’re here
We offer our solidarity
For eye opening light to be there
We accept the aching bones
The lone concrete for this night
For my brothers and sisters
Who don’t deserve to live in fright
For a country that we’ve never seen
For a people that we’ve never met
The possibility of pervading peace
The sustainability of one society
We go without certain needs
Even our prayers prayed on their knees
That’s why we’re here
We offer collectivity
For soul strengthening love to be there
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