"A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger and despair." -- The Dalai Lama
OM MANI PEME HUNG
May all mother sentient beings, boundless as the sky, have happiness and the causes of happiness. May they be liberated from suffering and the causes of suffering. May they never be separated from the happiness which is free from sorrow. May they rest in equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.
Vajrasattva Mantra
I long for your soul. More than to devour you or be devoured by you, I long for our souls' release. More than I long to embrace you, I long for your happiness, your peace. Though my desire for you is fierce.
Be true to what you hold dear, my soul. I honor you, I honor your life. May we stand strong in truth. May we know love and never know hunger. May we live well in our convictions and never know a day of violence or suffering. May our every gesture show our gratitude and be our offering for a better world.
Selection of blog posts -
"To love, to be loved ..." Arundhati Roy
For a smile - Strange Fruit in London and Rio
Cat Soup
Laser Graffiti
Endorphin cocktail, anyone?
If you don't have American culture PTSD yet, here's something for you
Remedios Varo
Enchanted Tiki Room, the ethnocentric cult of Disney
Come September
Brain State Technologies
Ayahuasca -- Vine of the Soul
Timewave Zero, Terence Mckenna
Particles or Waves?
Nar-i Sems, Mercan Dede
The relationship between power and powerlessness
The Way of All Flesh
Idle Vice
The revolution will not be televised
True Lies
Conflict Resolution in the Bronx
Get Out Your Pens! Dollar Disobedience
Good Night and Good Luck, when you try to silence me ...
Chill Out, A message for our friends who get nervous when we express ourselves.
This is Your Life
What is happening here?
Crossing the Rubicon
Empire of Fear
Bandits and Soldiers, Jorge Luis Borges
Changing and Becoming, Jean Baudrillard
Forces of Nature and Dead Can Dance
Thanksgiving Prayer, William S. Burroughs
Accepting Consequences
Enlightenment
Change Your Life
Zapatistas
A New Refutation of Time
The Illusion of Safety
Why I Love the Chaparral
Michael Albert on Participatory Economics, Parts 1 & 2
Michael Albert on Participatory Economics, Part 3
Mea Culpa, baby!
"When the doors of perception are cleansed ..."
A case of the humans
Why can't we all just drink absinthe?
Sheep
True Lies by Taalam Acey from film American Blackout
After you ...
The Secret Life of Puppets
Institute Benjamenta "Classroom Dance" Brothers Quay
One Bank
Century of Self
Scary 'Mary Poppins' Trailer: THE ORIGINAL
Edward Gorey, how I love thee!
Vincent, Film by Tim Burton with Vincent Price
Alice in Wonderland, Cecil Hepworth, 1903
The Physics of Power
Warfare, George Orwell
"How does one coexist?" Edward Said
Forgiving the Unforgivable, Jacques Derrida
Tyranny
At what price our silence?
The Dollar as Protest
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Century of Self
Georges Melies
Animated Tell Tale Heart
The Way of All Flesh
Joel-Peter Witkin
Fantasmagoria, 1908
Les Triplettes de Belleville
Be still my heart! It's Caruso!
Forest by Jeff Leiser
Maestro! Astor Piazolla
and now for a Bollywood moment
Natacha Atlas
Tyger
The Three Little Pigs as read by Christopher Walken
Fellini, in a dream
THOSE WHO SEEK AND SPEAK THE TRUTH.
Glass Music , El Morro, Calexico , Parabola, Tool and Alex Grey , Nick Cave, Paloma Negra, Chavela Vargas , Leonard Cohen , Paco de Lucia , Rage Against the Machine, Closer, Nine Inch Nails , Ordo Equilibrio , Ekova , DuOud , Arvo Part , Astor Piazolla, Django Reinhardt, , Serkan çağrı & Mercan Dede , Om Kolthoum , Enrico Caruso , Nino Rota, Nine Inch Nails , Santanico Pandemonium, Los Lobos and very erotic dance by Salma Hayek , I Loves You Porgy, Nina Simone, 1962 , among the rest
Dead Man
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." -- Blake
Turtles Can Fly , Quay Brothers, Frida , Santa Sangre , The Conformist, 1900, The Damned, The Fight Club , Soylent Green , The Last of England, Withnail & I, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, Photographing Fairies, Illuminata, and so many others
Think for Yourselves
Poor, Absolutely Fabulous
"You're here because of the system."
You are so duped by the tube!
Noam Chomsky
They Want Your Soul
Terence McKenna on McLuhan
Awake in the Dream
Jorge Luis Borges, siempre
Prehistoric Lovers Found Locked in Eternal Embrace (more)
THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS: 1. All is suffering (dukkha). 2. Suffering is caused by desire/attachment. 3. If one can eliminate desire/attachment, one can eliminate suffering. 4. The Noble Eight-fold Path can eliminate desire. Extremes of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) and excessive self- mortification should be avoided.
THE NOBLE EIGHT-FOLD PATH: 1. The true understanding of the four noble truths. 2. Right Intent. Right aspiration is the true desire to free oneself from attachment, ignorance, and hatefulness. [These first two are referred to as praj?a, or wisdom.] 3. Right Speech. Right speech involves abstaining from lying, gossiping, or hurtful talk. 4. Right Conduct. Right action involves abstaining from hurtful behaviors, such as killing, stealing, and careless sex. 5. Right livelihood. Right livelihood means making your living in such a way as to avoid dishonesty and hurting others, including animals. [The above three are referred to as shila, or morality.] 6. Right Effort. Right effort is a matter of exerting oneself in regulating the content of one's mind: bad qualities should be abandoned and prevented from arising again; good qualities should be enacted and nurtured. 7. Right Mindfulness. Right mindfulness is the focusing of one's attention on one's body, feelings, thoughts, and consciousness in such a way as to overcome craving, hatred, and ignorance. 8.Right Concentration. Right concentration is meditating in such a way as to progressively realize a true understanding of imperfection, impermanence, and non-separateness.
The Four Noble Truths Parts 1 & 2, The 14th Dalai Lama
The Four Noble Truths Parts 3 & 4, The 14th Dalai Lama
Refuge of 3 jewels
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