Overheard |
This is the record of a conversation between a great man and his father. Q: "What is heavier than the Earth?" A: "A mother's love". Q: "By what does one become wise?" A: "By serving one's e...
Posted by franz on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:35:00 PST |
best singer/video artiste ever! |
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Posted by franz on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:18:00 PST |
When you find yourself disagreeing with the Buddha of Compassion... |
Here is His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the avatar of the Avalokiteswara Buddha of Compassion calling for the sparing of the life of Saddam Hussein, the unlawfully deposed former President-for-life/Dict...
Posted by franz on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:40:00 PST |
What we gave up for the Industrial Revolution |
Here is a link that shows the benefits of social dancing for former heart failure patients. Is it too much of a stretch to say that communal social dancing like we find in traditional (let's not...
Posted by franz on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:07:00 PST |
diversions |
why this infatuation with no-thing interrupted by my two year old son clamoring for "more Elmo" with upturned inflected endingsi was inspired by the dirty cheating poet who walked with masters and die...
Posted by franz on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:22:00 PST |
That does not make you cool. |
Okay. Stop. That wasn't even cool in high school when you were drunk on shnapps and skated past your vice principal in his front yard and flipped him one just cause it was saturday and what was he gon...
Posted by franz on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:59:00 PST |
Bhagavad Gita and people who fake the funk! |
This is a pivotal verse in the Gita. I recently saw some unscrupulous person insert his own words to completely scramble the meaning. Here is the actual verse, word for word and a valid english transl...
Posted by franz on Mon, 29 May 2006 01:19:00 PST |
A warning? |
Consider this a warning. Whereas Franz Manfredi, henceforth referred to as "I", is a purveyor of nonsense in the guise of legitamate philosophy, and Whereas My grasp of Gaudiya Vedanta is slim to...
Posted by franz on Tue, 09 May 2006 03:08:00 PST |
On why Adriana's husband won't read Rilke anymore. |
Earlier today I read a couple of poems by Ranier Maria Rilke. I'm not that cool, they just happened to be in an anthology of spiritual poetry along with the usual suspects; Rumi, Hafez, Mirabai,...
Posted by franz on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:48:00 PST |
Moving On |
So- we were given a thirty day order to move by the landlord through the property manager. Hard, but a great opportunity to get out of here. The apartment we are in is great and we are twe...
Posted by franz on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:01:00 PST |
