January 21, 2012

January 19, 2012

January 17, 2012

Hulu Hulu. You let me down!

January 16, 2012

I bought this 45 when it came out in 1968. This is the B side of the song Atlantis. I listened to both of them often in my bedroom at Northgate. It must have come out around the same time as Sorry Suzanne by the Hollies did. Seems I got them both near the same time. Couple of Susan songs.
At this point there wasn't anyone to share my musical interests with. Possibly my younger brother, but he was pretty young and I don't remember he was interested. My sister wasn't really interested in much music then, at least music that I liked. She did buy a Rustix album around this time. Fire by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown came out and I loved that. I had a little pyromania in me.

January 8, 2012

DJ spoke about arriving at the totality of oneself. We're pretty good on the thinking and talking elements, not so good with intent and with will.
The Scarecrow and the Sacred Cow

January 7, 2012

Sending scouts to probe our perceptual limits
the art of stalking yourself
Break out of the cage
Minimal effort maximum effect. Bold gestures

Sit back, relax, enjoy it

Bold gestures get favored
A chance to have a chance.
http://sweepingzen.com/2012/01/11/honor-among-thieves-a-briefest-of-meditations-on-engaging-koans-and-with-whom/

teachers of shikantaza.

They can be extremely skillful in the arts of stealing our delusions. Among the thieves of the heart, those expert in stealing away delusions, masters of the way of just sitting are as good as any other teachers on the way. Sometimes better.

Study or introspection, we belong to the same boys and girls club, the Zen way.

James Ishmael Ford
Approach the self with compassion and ruthlessness

January 6, 2012

I'm no longer interested in destroying anybody. I don't hate the Mexicans. I don't hate anyone. I have learned that the countless paths one traverses in one's life are all equal. Oppressors and oppressed meet at the end, and the only thing that prevails is that life was altogether too short for both.

Juan Mateus