TheSongsofDistantEarth

Worried about that? Ah, you need some real time in Nature to understand it. What a magnificent thing if an eagle landed close to you and you could lie still and commune with it!! It's not going to mistake you for carrion, bro-go for it!

Dave Eggers reviewed David Mitchell's "Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' in today's NYT book review cover story, and described Mitchell as "one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive" and raved about the book. Maybe I'll try ' Cloud Atlas'. I like your description of Murakami's writing style, plain with a lot happening underneath that mysteriously draws one in. That kind of writing is very powerful.

'Little, Big' was amazing, as was 'Possession'. Loved 'Trout Fishing', and 'Unbearable' too. Never read any Henry Miller (yet), but 'Winter's Tale' and 'The Island' sound very promising.

Yeah, I hear those Hopis are f*ing liberals!!! And now they're watching the global bankers with black helicopters!!!

Nice information. Thanks August Leo. (I love 'capturing' a disappearing August Leo post )

uh oh...I'm feeling H U G O ! ! ! ! ! !

I dunno, that kind of stuff is black magic, actually. Best left alone if you're on the path.

Yes, a wonderful read! One of my all-time favorites, it kick-started my spiritual path in my early 20's. I re-read it from time to time. 'Radix' sounds really interesting, and I loved 'Foucault's Pendulum'. I have never read Le Guinn, I'll check it out, and 'Tales of Brother Marcus' looks fantastic but hard to find. It sounds like it may be worth searching out...

Masturbating in the sun is helping people play mentally.

Back when I was teenage busboy, we used to go into the walk-in refrigerator and get the whipped cream cans and keeping them upright, would inhale the nitrous oxide and hold our breaths and walk around for about a minute. Felt like I was waking into the Roman Coliseum to a roaring crowd with fireworks going off all around. Nice little high to break up the day...he he..

Back when I was teenage busboy, we used to go into the walk-in refrigerator and get the whipped cream cans and keeping them upright, would inhale the nitrous oxide and hold our breaths and walk around for about a minute. Felt like I was waking into the Roman Coliseum to a roaring crowd with fireworks going off all around. Nice little high to break up the day...he he..

As the Buddha said, "Dependent Origination is the Dharma, if you see Dependent Origination, you see the Dharma." See what it says is that, we don't start with an assumption that there is a self existing, void of explanation fullness that precedes anything. Dependent Origination takes no assumptive starting point and actually places no construct or non-construct as any ultimate Truth that shines from it's own side. An explanation from the Tao Te Ching, no matter how beyond words that explanation is pointing to, is still placing an indefinable self existent non-conceptual as an ultimate Truth that outshines all explanation, and also shines from it's own side that is in fact the shining of all that is shown. Dependent Origination subverts this experiential assumption and says even this high up formless level of perception and experience beyond words and seeming dualities originates dependently. Dependent Origination subverts all assumptions. If understood correctly and is applied to all levels of experience intuitively.

It's just your blood pressure equilibrating... nothing spiritual or energetic about it, though it can feel sorta fun if you relax about it...

more endless mental masturbation...life is passing y'all by...why don't you go play in the sun or help somebody?

All this makes me realize that internet fora are largely a HUGE waste of time and many of us deceive ourselves that we're accomplishing something 'important' by posting here ad infinitum.

I don't agree on that. We only imagine that reality can be apprehended, let alone be "viewed correctly".

Maybe they said 'cheese' instead of 'qi'? http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender/

Not interested in living to 101. Not at all. In my work I encounter lots of people in their 90's, and into their 100's, vast majority of them wonder "Why am I still here?", and feel like it's time to go.

You live in Las Vegas??!

Complain to Joeblast and vortex. they don't like government "interfering" with our lives: 'Quit sniveling and pull yourselves up by your bootstraps! We simply mustn't spend on anything (but war) right now!'

I have those attributes more, I think than the Buddhist Fast Track to Enlightenment folks here, I can just about promise you. But thank you for your compassion and concern, Brother Paul. (What do you mean "mercurial state"? What is it you are referring to?)

+1

Well, I know one thing that will sharpen your sword better'n that...

EPIC FAIL