February 2012
“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.”
– Spanish Proverb
She says this sounds like my motto
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The Philosophical Roots of the Marx-Bakunin... →
- Ann Robertson
(from a Marxist perspective)
Free and Easy
wakeupandbefree:
A Spontaneous Vajra Song -By Venerable Lama Gendun Rinpoche
Happiness can not be found through great effort and willpower, but is already present, in open relaxation and letting go.
Don’t strain yourself, there is nothing to do or undo. Whatever momentarily arises in the body-mind has no real importance at all, has little reality whatsoever. Why identify with, and...
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Abhinavagupta’s Vision of Reality
onuminous:
by Christopher D. Wallis
All that exists and has ever existed is one infinite divine Consciousness, free and blissful, which projects within the field of its awareness a vast multiplicity of apparently differentiated subjects and objects, each object an actualization of a potential inherent in the divine Light of Consciousness (prakasha) and each subject a contracted locus of...
“It should not have escaped your notice, but seems to have been ignored by...”
– Jim Davidson (via stuffguru)
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hēdonē
quest for pleasure which has only good consequences
Children Make Fun Of Your Bald Head?
lessonsfromthebible:
Find two bears who will tear them up!
42 children make a lot of pretty, bloody pieces
- 2 Kings 2:23-24
rottenweiler:
if you don’t like the song good vibrations you are wrong
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FUCKING YEA
breakingdownintearswhileonshroomsbecauseit’ssofuckingperfectandbeautiful
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As you move into the promise land
invade a city
kill everything living thing
man, women, child, animal
and rape the virgins beforehand
or alternatively, keep they and the youngest children “for yourself”
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Violence is a baseline strategy →
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we name
thingswhich do/not exist
clouds
Biosemiotics →
“pain of independence.”
– The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance: Scientific American
“The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that people who dissent from group wisdom show heightened activation in the amygdala, a small organ in the brain associated with the sting of social...
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Father Attacks Sons With Axe Before Setting House... →
Just days before, in a motion seeking custody of his children filed with a Washington state court, Powell said he missed his wife, and would remain strong for the boys.
“A lesser person would fall under the intense scrutiny I am facing, but apparently my inherent resilience as a person makes it increasingly difficult for them to pursue their agendas,” Powell wrote.
“I am...
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World Oral Literature Project →
The World Oral Literature Project is an urgent global initiative to document and disseminate endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record. The Project supports local communities and committed fieldworkers engaged in the collection and preservation of all forms of oral literature by providing funding for original research, alongside training in fieldwork and digital archiving...
From "Sex at Dawn"
altarflame:
If women were as libidinous as men, we’re told, society itself would collapse. Lord Acton was only repeating what everyone knew in 1875 when he declared, “The majority of women, happily for them and for society, are not very much troubled with sexual feelings of any kind.” And yet, despite repeated assurances that women aren’t particularly sexual creatures, in cultures around the...
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On Being Blog: How a Freed Slave's Response to His... →
beingblog:
by David McGuire, guest contributor
As we begin Black History Month, here’s a letter from 1865 making the rounds. In it, Jourdan Anderson, a former slave, responds to his former master Colonel P.H. Anderson, who had written to invite him back to the plantation — this time, with pay.
“Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us...
“There is less mobility in the work force because the computers are not simply...”
– Rick Bookstaber, The Bifurcated Society (via courtenaybird)
Within 10-20 years they will, as soon as the processing power needed for acute robotic vision comes along 90% of current work will be done by them, I for one welcome our new robo-slaves
If I Were President... by Neil deGrasse Tyson →
anticapitalist:
The question, “If I were President I’d…” implies that if you swap out one leader, put in another, then all will be well with America—as though our leaders are the cause of all ailments.
That must be why we’ve created a tradition of rampant attacks on our politicians. Are they too conservative for you? Too liberal? Too religious? Too atheist? Too gay? Too anti-gay? Too rich?...
Fight
Azure lost her fight for life, and I gave a tribure at the memorial service. “I know she was special to everyone here,” I choked, “but she was very special to me because I was her boyfriend.” A handsome, strong-jawed man stood up and shouted, “No you weren’t. I was her boyfriend.” Then a tall, almost swarthy man did the same. Before long there were eight...
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Wake Up and Dream - Radiolab →
Matt Kielty introduces us to Steve Volk, a city reporter in Philadelphia who—for decades—was plagued by a recurring nightmare. It popped up whenever Steve was going through a stressful time, and it always played out exactly the same way. But no matter how self-aware Steve was about his most current set of anxieties, and no matter how hard he tried to rationalize and explain away the...
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“Essence Mahamudra is nothing more than one’s naked, ordinary mind resting in the...”
– Essence Mahamudra - Three Classifications Of Mahamudra.pdf - Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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“Indian Mahāmudrā-Works” in the Early Bka’ brgyud...
Certain aspects of the Bka´ brgyud teachings on mahāmudrā, such as the possibility of a sudden liberating realization or the possibility that a beginner may attain mahāmudrā even without Tantric initiation, became a highly controversial issue in the 13th century. For Sa skya Paṇḍita (1182–1251), such teachings represented a new development stemming from a Sino-Tibetan influence on Sgam po pa...
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“Do you see the stars up there in the sky?” “Yes.” “Do...”
– Dzogchen Pointing-Out Instruction
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“The ways these two aspects of meditation are practiced is that one begins with...”
–
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
(Shiva’s Lingam (in) Shakti’s Yoni)(Extrinsic/Intrinsic Neural Networks)(Active/Passive Attention)(Thanissaro Bhikkhu states Buddha originally taught unified Samatha/Vipassana in illustrated by the earliest Suttas)
Natural Sitting
and absolute truth...
January 2012
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“I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the...”
–
Alexis de Tocqueville
As quoted by Alan Mcfarlane in his lecture on this author, the 4th part of his Map of Social Theories course on youtube
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How many
buttons do you press throughout the day which give you a pleasurable little reward?
Where does I end and the world begin? What in myself is not of myself? How does my dream touch your dream? What am I apart from my own ephemeral experience and what is it apart from me? Meat, electricity, liquids, metals, my mother and her father, how much of I is them? How much will I never knew? Ikkyu, original confusion is original nature, nothing but this and feeling, movement, lost, bliss,...
Anonymous asked: plz post a pic of u
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Surrealist Songmakers - DIY Holiday Fair 2011 →
Here’s another Surrealist Songmaking podcast from this years 2011 DIY Holiday Fair at the VERA Project.
Here’s how it worked. We used an old 4-track cassette recorder. A person would come and record a track of guitar, voice, weird percussion, whatever. Then the next person would come and can listen to what the first person put recorded and lay down another track over it… Then...
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