Heyo, they call me Buk... among other things =p ...
I'm not trying to be anybody but myself - as if there were any alternative... and I'm never too convinced of who I think I am either... I believe in change.
You won't really find out much about me here... this is jus a collection of a few of the things that I like and inspire me to be me =]
Anyway... this is just a myspaz profile... there's certainly more to people than what anyone ever puts in these things... feel free to msg me ;]
Peace - Buk
Quotes
Siddartha Gautama, Buddha
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it
Aristotle
"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
Anon
"The only difference between a buddhist and a non-buddhist, is the non-buddhist thinks there is a difference"
Bill Hicks
Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To hear what it's all about, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once?"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration... that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."
- Click Here - to see a list of Bill Hicks videos. The above quote is off the 2nd video from the top - Sane Man: War On Drugs. It is also used as a sample on the song 'Third Eye' by 'Tool'
"It's not a war against drugs... it's a war against our personal freedoms!"
"Folks... its time for us to evolve ideas... you know, evolution didn't end with us growing thumbs... you do know that, right?!... Didn't end there. We're at the point now, we're going to have to evolve ideas. The reason the world's so fucked up is, we're undergoing evolution... and the reason our instituions and traditional religions are crumbling is because... they're no longer relevant!! So it's time for us to create a new philosophy... and perhaps even a new religion, you see... and that's ok, coz that's our right, coz we are free children of God... with minds which can imagine anything... and thats kind of our role."
"Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America!
You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"
Bruce Lee
"Don't Think!... Feeeeel!"
"As a finger points away to the beauty of the moon, don't focus on the finger!"
(- ancient Chinese proverb popularised by Bruce Lee)
Alan Watts
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. When we look through our telescopes and microscopes, or when we just look at nature, we have a problem. Somehow the idea of God we get from the holy scriptures doesn't seem to fit the world around us, just as you wouldn't ascribe a composition by Stravinsky to Bach. The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. It's hard to conceive of the author of one as the author of the other."
"I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. What we really are is, first of all, the whole of our body. And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Obviously a body requires air, and the air must be within a certain temperature range. The body also requires certain kinds of nutrition. So in order to occur the body must be on a mild and nutritive planet with just enough oxygen in the atmosphere spinning regularly around in a harmonious and rhythmical way near a certain kind of warm star.
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That arrangement is just as essential to the existence of my body as my heart, my lungs, and my brain. So to describe myself in a scientific way, I must also describe my surroundings, which is a clumsy way getting around to the realization that you are the entire universe. However we do not normally feel that way because we have constructed in thought an abstract idea of our self."
"Well," you ask. "How do I get rid of it?"
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And my answer to that is: That's the wrong question.
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How does one get rid of what? You can't get rid of your hallucination of being an ego by an activity of the ego. Sorry, but it can't be done...
If you try to get rid of your ego with your ego you will just end up in a vicious circle. You'd be like somebody who worries because they worry because they worry.
Robert Green Ingersol
"Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit
Defending the justice of his own imprisonment."
Dick Gregory
"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease
to be amused."
Albert Einstein
"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'the universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
