Photography, poetry, rollerblading, music, trumpets, science, pubs, beer, religions, hiking, forests, languages, spanish, gaelic, french, Buddhism, anamnesia, crazy girls, paradigm shifting, Karma kagyu, Nyingma, 23 cluster, dharma, dzogchen lore, history, candles, empathy, deconditioning, movies, Tibetan Buddhism, mythology, Purple Monkey Mafia, non-sectarianism, Pali, mysteries, laughter, love, drumming, reading, writing, Theravada Buddhism, sunrises, moonrises, circles, shunyata, Eris, Erisianism, liberation, Celts, desire, freedom from desire, sunrises, pirates, you, etc.
I'd like to meet:
You, possibly.
Buddhists, meditators, artists, free thinkers, neophiles, non-sectarians, dharma practitioners, agents of spontaneous laughter, Nyingmapas for Dzogchen chats, vajra sisters and brothers for mandala generation, poets for conspiratorial winks, and other goodies. You must live to break up the fragile egg shells of delusion, or at least enjoy doing it. Or, if that is impossible, you must live to be happy.
I have found my "partner." Our activities will include but not be limited to: giggling, sitting on random wicker chairs in alleys, enjoying sunrises together, things that make tingles and goosebumps, and coming up with silly things to either do or imagine doing. I love her.
Sentient beings only, please. If you are simply a conglomeration of media ideas and bits of personality gleamed from TV and magazines that tell you how to exist, then please don't contact me at all. Otherwise you will become a target of the Vajrayana Tantric Conspiracy.
Don't bother me if you are never impressed with anyone but yourself.
Bodhicitta: Spirit of Awakening
Music:
http://www.bassdrive.com/v2/
All sorts of Good Music. All types of music, including: jazz (forties through now), metal of most kinds (too many bands to list here), drum and bass, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Don Cherry, Roy Hargrove, Kila, Altan, Hendrix, Joy Division, The Tannahill Weavers, Slayer, Infected Mushrooms, Fela Kuti, punk, tripno, old rap, hip hop, the Strokes, NRA, Let's Go Bowling, Secret Agent Bill, Black Flag, trumpets, horns, bagpipes, drums, Buddhist chants, old punk shit most of you never heard of, Naked Raygun, Effigies, the wind whipping the shit out of skyscrapers, Eris smacking someone, silence, etc.I play trumpet and I do percussion (mostly African drums).
Movies:
Everything is Illuminated, Blood Diamond, Sweeny Todd and many others. I like too damned many. From world cinema to Hollywood Blockbusters and cheap action thrillers...horror films and zombie films are perennial favs. 300 was pretty sweet. So was Shoot 'Em Up.
Television:
I am addicted to CSI shows and "Lost," so what? (It's not like none of YOU have never watched "Lost, now is it?) I also like Boston Legal because of "Denny Crane." Heh. Oh, and I got back into "24" again recently...I know it's formulaic and all, but come on...the suspense is perfect as Jack Bauer tries to save the world again and again.
Books:
"American Gods" and "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman, "Pandora's Star" by Peter Hamilton, Terry Goodkind (The Sword of Truth series), Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time), Terry Pratchett, C.J. Cherryh (the Foreigner series), Jeff Long ("The Descent" and "Year Zero"), Cat's Cradle (by you know who)...anything by Robert Thurman, "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris, Coelho's "Alchemist" (that was sweet!), Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus, Schroedinger's Cat. etc) and many others. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, etc.
Heroes:
Siddhartha Gautama, Padmasambhava, Vajrayogini, Chenresik, Milarepa, Grainne Mhaol Ni Mhaille, Vercingetorix, Lama Jey Tsongkhapa, Cuchulainn, Buddhadasa, Socrates, Macha, HH Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Jampa Tenzin, HH Dudjom Rinpoche, Hagbard Celine, Sogyal Rinpoche, Khandro Rinpoche, Khin Myin, the White Mouse, Yeshe Tsogyal, Diana, Mummu, Dionysos, Eris...but actually quite a lot of people and deities and uncategorizable "damned things," including all those who are guilty of thought crimes. Or anyone who refuses to be anything other or less than their true selves.
