konchog uma

leaving sheep behind some walk the lone way of wolves shepherds have been there

six syllables that last bit

huge lolz to that teknix quote, especially because he won't quit yammering over in the "has anyone attained paranormal abilities" thread about how nobody ever has, but meanwhile, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu's uncle and dzogchen teacher attained jalus and dissolved his physical body into light, leaving only fingernails, toenails, and hair behind upon his death. Now what that has to do with Nike shoes is beyond me, but its definitely worth one more lol LOL

utterly bizarre! a whole mug worth of caffeine in one tiny shot

Overjoyed today to see that Macklemore's "Same Love", which is basically the first mainstream hip-hop song to celebrate LGBT issues, is the #5 most listened to song on google play music. HUGE ups Macklemore i know i've posted this song before, but if you missed it the first time, this video is amazing

LOL

Hi Zed, welcome. Buddhism teaches not to attach or avoid, so pushing thoughts of sex down isn't really dharma. Acceptance of whatever arises is more like it. Almost everything in the relative world is gendered, and if it isn't, the mind invents gender and attaches it hahaah ala Freud. Life energy is sexual, and everyone has to deal with sexuality in the healthiest way they can, even (and especially) celibate monks. But there's no need to be one of those to achieve freedom or happiness. Anyway, best wishes on the path.

all covered in jam right hand on a blue circle gotta stretch for that

The Revolution! It won't be televised, but search it on youtube

What Cheer? Brigade live at Belvedere's (after the show at the Princess mentioned in the previous post) in which the What Cheer? Brigade displays the proper technique to employ when entering a strange bar for the first time belvederes show starts at 1:42 for you impatient types

Lungs Face Feet Traffic (live) the pretty drummer in frame at 1:03 introduced me to crass, the clash, new model army, etc, when i was like 13... i used to have a huge crush on her! hehe i saw her at a show at the Princess here in pgh last year for the first time in like 20 years.. heres a minute and a half from that show they played with the what cheer brigade, who is totally worth looking up on youtube if you are into big brass

who knows truth for sure? crusty ed the homeless guy cost you a buck tho.

If you want to understand Tibetan Buddhism's relationship to your own personal concept of traditional Buddhadharma, i suggest reading Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava by Yeshe Tsogyal. People who are looking for "truth" often have a hard time relating to Buddhism because there are so many different variations that the short-sighted response is "well they can't all be right! so some of them are wrong!! aaa" but in reality the dharma is flexible, and includes a wide range of views and practices aimed at increasing ones direct relationship with the present, or things as they are, rather than being aimed at some kind of truth with a capital T. In other words, just because you don't understand something doesnt mean its not the real dharma. Its pretentious to think so. I hope you make time to read that book, its great.

i used to go thrifting for a fresh plaid suit for each bosstones show, i think i've been to 10... then the scene broke and mtv started playing that music.. the shows totally changed, it used to be hardcore and we would dance on stage with dicky barrett and then all of a sudden like overnight they started putting a barrier between the fans and the stage at all their shows, which incidentally were populated with teeny-boppers on drugs and drunk suburban punks. fuck it another scene ruined. The funniest thing is that those teenyboppers have no idea how much mtv and pop culture ruined music, they think that i and everyone like me is whining because we are elitist scenesters who don't want to share the good music! hahahha just thinking about the bosstones takes me back to pre-Dookie punk rock and shows the likes of which could never possibly happen now that the internet makes everything popular within 15 minutes. now that you've listened to my elitist scenester rant, i will regale you with great music from devendra banharts new album mala

Uplifting Embrace - Tatterdemalion Surrogate Parent Program i posted this two years ago, and i am still laughing every time i think about it fuck work get sponsored

This is a Sept 2012 Times Of India interview with HHDL that i have been meaning to post here for a while http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/We-need-to-be-21st-century-Buddhists-Dalai-Lama/articleshow/16583639.cms?intenttarget=no "I don't especially favour constructing a monastery or temple, I'd prefer to see an academic centre of learning instead, and somewhere that could be a focus for the study of Buddhist philosophy, Daoism and secular ethics. I recently told people in Ladakh that they should aim to make their monasteries centres of learning,"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23381448

yeah i just read about the pardon, and Norways Foreign Minister had this comment "Eide told the Norwegian news agency NTB that international media attention and Norway’s diplomatic measures helped Dalelv, who was free on appeal with her next court hearing scheduled for early September." http://www.france24.com/en/20130722-dubai-pardons-norwegian-woman-rape-case-sex-outside-marriage-sentence the whole debacle is a stain in the undies of humanity, but at least she isn't being detained in dickland

want to second El Topo (also Holy Mountain by Jodorowski), Spring, Summer...., and Pan's Labyrinth! which means i will be watching kung fu hustle and enter the void soon thanks steve

Thanks Apech, helpful

listening to Aesop Rock's 2012 album Skelethon i just learned he was white two days ago. tehehe just assumed he was black for like ten years )

i've never seen specific reference to it either, although i haven't studied the tantras deeply. But it raises a question is it always the case that tantric practice is grounded in sutric study (to some degree anyway?) because i only have experience with my lineage, which has prerequisite vows to tantric vows and practice, and those vows entail a study of sutric buddhism, as encouraged by my lama anyway. And from what i've read, that is common, to have a foundation of sutra to build the body of tantric practice on. But is that a (more-or-less) universal thing?

"Shunyata, or emptiness, is empty of subject-object relationship. Nonexistent subject, nonexistent object. Perceiver and perceptions do not exist. As far as the groundwork is concerned, there is no definite ground. As long as there is definite ground on the spiritual quest, it becomes a struggle, a deliberate attitude of achievement. And once we begin to be aware of our process of searching as an ambitious struggle, that struggle automatically becomes a formulated struggle, a struggle with ideas, a struggle with theology, conceptwhich is perpetually creating samsaric mind rather than the spiritual path. The spiritual path becomes religion from that point of view, pejoratively speaking." -Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Even though this quote utilizes Buddhist terminology, I think the point it makes transcends ideologies and strikes at something universal. So I have posted it in the general section.

Lol, guilty here too. But I think the idea of getting beyond struggle and religion is at least universal to Buddhists and Daoists hhahah if nothing else! Actually I think its a defining factor of the mystical paths, like what separates Sufism from Islam and so on.

awesome video Chang, thanks for sharing! i'm only 20min into it but already learned a lot and going to finish it after this break. what im reading: On The Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City by Erick Lyle (author of San Francisco zine SCAM) "Forget statistics and pretentious analysis of urban society. Take a walk through the city with Erick Lyle and discover the reality of how people live in an American city." -Howard Zinn punk as fuck, a totally great book