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Sean

What are you before thought and feeling?

About Me

I am a contemplative artist living in Meridian, MS with my beautiful spiritual life-partner Lezlie and our three sinister black cats, one named Aleister after the infamous Crowley, Sebastian, and Laelyn - which were named by Lezlie.
We work out of our home running our own business.
We are stationed here for only a temporary amount of time and then it's on to who knows where...

My Interests

Feeling, Shape, Art, Music, Flow, Yoga, Taoist alchemy, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Love, sex, polyamory, Tantra, Function, Philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, mind, Movement, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, hatha yoga, contortion, dance, somatics

I'd like to meet:

God. Self. Other.

Music:

Devendra Banhart, The Knife, M83, Aphex Twin, The Smiths, Nick Drake, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power, Sigur Ros, Yo La Tengo

Movies:

Anything unique with style, substance, heart.

Books:

Anything about my interests. Not much fiction.

My Blog

sitting around thinkin ya the cat’s meow

(8:34:37 AM) somlor510: ah, ya rag a muffin, pipe down or scram says you(8:34:55 AM) somlor510: or i'll take you for a ride(8:35:13 AM) somlor510: applesauce(8:35:28 AM) somlor510: sitting around thin...
Posted by Sean on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:52:00 PST

these are things i say

whoa... Jesus is about to attack.... you just created a Jesus booby-trap... I don't think Jesus likes that.... you are pissing Jesus off.
Posted by Sean on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:22:00 PST

Space is cool

[09:03] somlor510: you like gold grill idea?[09:03] somlor510: i was gonna do it in 3d[09:03] lezlieprapra: yea[09:03] somlor510: ok cool[09:03] somlor510: hey[09:03] somlor510: antoher thing[09:04] ...
Posted by Sean on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:11:00 PST

Peeking beyond the idealogies of selfishness and altruism

Self. Other. They are not separate. What I pursue is in a relationship with what is pursued, the environment it is pursued within, the conditions which gave rise to the pursuing. In fact, all of thes...
Posted by Sean on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:20:00 PST

Do you really want to be free or not?

The way I look at it, the Buddha just simply sat under a tree with utter resolve. That's about it. No method. No secret teaching. He just wanted to be free of suffering with all of his being. That's w...
Posted by Sean on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:14:00 PST

What do you know?

Via To Live the Truth, A Weekend Inquiry with Adyashanti. Inspired me enough to transcribe it. Enjoy.As Ramana used to say, let what comes come, let what goes go, find out what remains. Awareness need...
Posted by Sean on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:55:00 PST

The Taoist Body

I recently read The Taoist Body by Kristofer Schipper on the advice of my Taoist teacher Liu Ming. I highly highly recommend that anyone with even a passing interest in Taoism read this book. The Taoi...
Posted by Sean on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:34:00 PST

Why dont Zen teachers talk about qi?

My guess is because Zen is an attempt to focus almost as exclusively as possible on the everpresent stillness and inherent emptiness of all form, no matter how subtle or gross that form may be. ...
Posted by Sean on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:48:00 PST