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Dāwíð

Without a life of the spirit, our whole existence becomes unsubstantial and illusory.

About Me

too bold a prepositional phrase for this wee man big dreamer kind lover

Get this MySpace Layout from pYzam.com , it's where I got mine from!

My Interests

pleroma, all things changing, now

I'd like to meet:

many a spiritual guide, all ye people, old and new friends

Music:

Will Oldham, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Palace Brothers, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Tom Waits, Carl Orff, Woody Guthrie, Old Timey stuff, Bach, Peaches, Beethoven, Tenacious D, Bartok, Hazel Dickens, Britten, Stephen Foster, Arvo Paert, Dvorak, Smog, Sigur Ros, Jerry Garcia, Kool Keith, Miles Davis, U2, John Philip Sousa, Norah Jones, Edith Piaf, The White Stripes, Neil Young, Sia, Scruggs and Flatt, Debussy, Bill Monroe, Palestrina, Bela Fleck, Elliott Smith, Deathcab for Cutie, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Albert Ayler, The Chieftains, Johnny Cash, Phil Ochs, Gillian Welch, Clannad, The Postal Service, Unfit, et multa alia . . .

Movies:

The Mission, Little Buddha, Stealing Beauty, Aguirre: Wrath of God, M, Karakter, Stroszek, The 13th Warrior, Kundun, The Name of the Rose, Thin Red Line, The Fog of War, Amelie, The Corporation, Immortal Beloved, The Secret of Roan Inish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dark City, Star Wars (first three), the even numbered Star Trek films

Television:

Renounce! (Except for Six Feet Under, Weeds, Battlestar Galactica, Frontline, X Files Reruns, The Daily Show and Colbert Report, Big Love, John from Cincinnati, Bill Moyer's Journal.)

Books:

A River Runs Through It, Mahaprajnaparamitasutra, Dune Series, The Monitor and the Merrimac, Hyperion Series, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, zen tomes, Das Parfum, The Great Influenza, The Grapes of Wrath, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science Hermeneutics and Praxis, Die Leiden des Jungen Werther, Dhammapada, Moby Dick, The Sickness Unto Death, The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), The Bhagavad Gita, Ein Schwatz in der Hand, Development as Freedom (Amartya Sen), Young Men in Fire, Horton Hears a Who, Memories Dreams and Reflections (C.G. Jung), Silent Spring, The Lorax, anything Rilke, anything Kafka, Majjhima Nikaya, Druids, Truth and Method, Augustine's Confessions, Dragonlance Series, Actualizing The Fundamental Point (Dogen), Yoga Sutras (Patanjali), Tristan und Isolde, anything Wikipedia, Into the Wild, The Gospel of Mark, A Short History of Time, The Thunder Perfect Mind, Das Nibelungenlied, The Catcher in the Rye, Vimalakirti Sutra, Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, le petit prince, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The Perfect Storm, The Loom of Language, To a God Unknown (Steinbeck), The American Heritage Dictionary, Njal's Saga, The Encyclopedia of Eastern Religion and Philosophy, The Troll Book

Heroes:

This emanation it's the Buddha Shakyamuni:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_Shakyamuni

My Blog

In Memoriam -- John O’Donohue (1956-2008)

Beannacht("Blessing") On the day whenthe weight deadenson your shouldersand you stumble,may the clay danceto balance you. And when your eyesfreeze behindthe grey windowand the ghost of lossgets in to ...
Posted by Dwíð on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:12:00 PST

"THE FISH" by Billy Collins

As soon as the elderly waiter placed before me the fish I had ordered, it began to stare up at me with its one flat, iridescent eye. I feel sorry for you, it seemed to say, eating alone in this awful...
Posted by Dwíð on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:15:00 PST

Feeling The Bard right now

XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown ...
Posted by Dwíð on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:03:00 PST

Dorothy Beatrice Malarkey Graham, December 6, 1919 - May 1, 2006

  Dorothy "Gift of God"   If God is Love, then a Mother's Love Comes closest in time and touch: To bear Being  complete presence, Total Birth  freely given, Life's Origin  human b...
Posted by Dwíð on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:17:00 PST

Readings chosen and read by me for my friends' wedding on Thanksgiving weekend.

These, the Words of the Buddha, on Love (Metta Sutta): This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward ...
Posted by Dwíð on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:46:00 PST

"Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks"

I am the blossom pressed in a book, found again after two hundred years. . . . I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . . When the young girl who starves sits down to a table she will...
Posted by Dwíð on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:41:00 PST

Holy Writ for the Coming Season

"Herbsttag"Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß.Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren,und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los.Befiehl den letzten Früchten voll zu sein;gib ihnen noch zwei südlic...
Posted by Dwíð on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:34:00 PST

untitled

Thanks to lamenting over the pain in the world,I am able to become laughter when my life is happy.Due to being struck and trampled upon and bitingmy lips to control my temper, I fully realize howpreci...
Posted by Dwíð on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:38:00 PST

To Paint the Portrait of the Bird

First paint a cagewith an open door.Then paintsomething prettysomething simplesomething beautifulsomething usefulfor the bird.Then place the canvas against a treein a gardenin a woodor in a forest.Hid...
Posted by Dwíð on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:35:00 PST