silent thunder

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  1. What are you listening to?

    Miss Joss Stone simply crushing this...
  2. Buddhism & Hinduism/Vedanta: Same or Different?

    well... at least you're not bitter about it.
  3. Leaving a Religion disrupts Qi?

    In my experience it is disturbances in xing and ming that likewise disturb qi, flow and distribution. Religious thinking and influence is a major disturbance in many people's lives... (particularly if they don't happen to agree/adhere with the dominant religious force in their native or current habitat). Leaving, living with, trying to adopt, choosing to reject... all quite challenging depending on one's xing, ming and baseline natural state.
  4. What are you listening to?

    Son and I saw Dylan a few months ago @ Hollywood Bowl with Willie n Crew... absolute legend. Just found this rare gem. Rather amazed at the quality of some of these 60's n 70's live tv performances.
  5. Lois Collection

    a i: inglorious plagiarism software
  6. Buddhism & Hinduism/Vedanta: Same or Different?

    and your statement seems to imply that there's something to achieve or acquire via some requisite process in order to take us to a something, or away from something else when our nature is our nature...
  7. What are you listening to?

    Aum Tare TuTare Tu Rei Zo
  8. Such a strong point about health... without health, what else among the material can be enjoyed or made use of... not food, not travel, being sick in grand clothes, being too sick to be with friends and family? Missing moments with those we love? Health is paramount in the material. And as far as commodities go, or currencies and value. The highest value in my experience has settled in awareness. Attention is the one commodity of life beyond compare. Attention is the currency of moments... it is the currency of life and living. What we allow ourselves to attend to in awareness is what we spend our life upon. Our life is comprised of the moments of attention that make up our life and if i count myself truly wealthy, it is in the grand fortune to have formed and shared myriad loving and cherished moments with inspiring and beautiful people, places, animals, and the rest of the ten thousand!
  9. What are you listening to?

    МОНОЛОГ ПИЛОТА ЧЕРНОГО ТЮЛЬПАНА As I heard it from a friend from Ukraine back in 1995.. When the dead were flown home during the Afghanistan War (russian incursion), some referred to the pilots who flew them as carrying home Black Tulips. 'The Black Tulips we bury in the ground'. The bitter rewards of war. So many Black Tulips planted... I wake most mornings with a song playing in mind. this mourning... it was black tulips heavy mourning for all those mired in the midst of conflicts not of their choosing...
  10. Is there a "safe" way to contact spirit of recently departed

    The dissociative aspect of localized awareness seems a tricky aspect and one of the most compelling 'side paths'. When i am experiences reality as a singular, 'seperate' unit, this can be incredibly encompassing and all consuming. Luckily death flips the coin and resolves the equation so to speak. and all the while, we are never seperate by even a hair's width for even a millisecond, ever.
  11. Is there a "safe" way to contact spirit of recently departed

    The metaphor of the onion resonates with significance in my awareness. For, at the center of the onion... beneath all the layers... lies emptiness.
  12. Is there a "safe" way to contact spirit of recently departed

    @dontknwmucboutanythng if there are unresolved aspects of the relationship, or a need on one end or the other, then they will contact you. In the dreamscape is rather common for this to occur.