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About Me

breathing searching discovering finding losing weeping laughing asking touching feeling listening reading experiencing honesty sharing pushing my own boundaries moment now paint loving learning patience. crazy fun letting go.....Currently thinking : we have to save our wee planet now. gotta have positive thoughts, kindness & grace. be aware. wake up. dear to be egoless & free of judgement from myself & others. be brave. I ain't no hippie, damn it, but i see the urgency in the need for loving, and how hard that is for people who don't wanna even look past their own small world of self preservation outta fear, manic egos etc blah also see how social conditioning tends towards this..... we've heard it all before, I know...pushing it to the back of our mind for some other time..... go neil young.... is this too heavy?! anyway peace & love to you traveller. Oh, and i love mangoes alot, camp fires, heart friends, red wine, little chocolate puppy dog eyes and hugs - they are the best x www.rigpa.org ,www.ceasefirecampaign.org ,www.bestfriendsrescue.com/dogs.html , www.sarniecreations.co.nz , www.parihaka.com/about.htm

My Interests

water, animals, music, minds, freedom, leaves, flowers, paints, love, tattoos, poetry, mango's, screaming, smiling, dancing naked, friendships, fresh sheets, waves and beach, supportive connected communities, flying like an eagle, yoga, meditation, dreaming, rituals, intimacy, synchronicity...

I'd like to meet:

His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama, Dan Millman. My Maori & Scottish Ancestors and other indigenous elders. Albert Einstein. Shakespeare. Peter Jackson. Wonder Woman. Passionate positive people. Neo. My true self.

Music:

neil young, tim buckley, pj harvey, ani de franco, david bowie, nick cave, b marley, ben harper, tori amos, fiona apple, sex pistols, beatles, t waits, gentle ben and his sensitive side, dirty 3, jimi beautiful hendrix, flaming lips, cibo matto, patti smith, neil finn, bjork, led zeppelin, talking heads, archie roach, radiohead, john frusciante, captain beefheart, dinosaur jr sooo many more - music that moves souls & mountains.

Movies:

wild @ heart, harold & maude, spirited away, the cup, whale rider, being john malcovich, the motorcycle daires, adaptations, broken flowers, eternal sunshine of the s.less mind, amelie, surfing videos, kill bill, nadja, the ten canoes, an inconvenient truth, hero, the matrix, even cowgirls get the blues, martial arts films sooooo many.....

Television:

off mostly. foreign films, music videos, south park, docco's. The Two of Us (SBS), The Insiders Guide to Love (SBS)

Books:

TBLD by Sogyal Rinpoche. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coehlo. Siddharta by Hermann Hesse. Way of the Peacful Warrior by Dan Millman, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Photography / Wifelife books.

Heroes:

Mum. You. Zia. Sogyal Rinpoche. Trungpa. HHDL. Nelson Mandela. Johnny Depp. Bruce Lee. David Lynch. people who live positively fearlessly & gracefully. Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

My Blog

writing in water

Remaining in the clarity and confidence of the nature of mind allows all your thoughts and emotions to liberate naturally and effortlessly within its vast expanse, like writing in water, or painting i...
Posted by jodes on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:28:00 PST

truly observant....

Action is being truly observant of your own thoughts, good or bad, looking into the true nature of whatever thoughts may arise, neither tracing the past nor inviting the future, neither allowing any c...
Posted by jodes on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:47:00 PST

YOU

Maitri [or loving kindness] is not only maitri toward others, but it is also maitri toward ourselves. In fact, the first step of awakening buddha nature is friendship with ourselves. This tends to hel...
Posted by jodes on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:40:00 PST

ALL-ENCOMPASSING FRIENDSHIP

ALL-ENCOMPASSING FRIENDSHIP :The beginning point of buddha nature seems to be the development of maitri, which could be translated as "love," "kindness," or "a friendly attitude." Having a friendly at...
Posted by jodes on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:47:00 PST

fearless compassion.....

So many veils and illusions separate us from the stark knowledge that we are dying. When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almo...
Posted by jodes on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:21:00 PST

doubt...... not

If we were to put our minds to one powerful wisdom method and work with it directly, there is a real possibility we would become enlightened. Our minds, however, are riddled with confusion and doubt. ...
Posted by jodes on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:36:00 PST

Leunig love

Leunig was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1999. Some examples of his work are in order, I suppose. Firstly, an example of the the despairing Leunig:Home/A...
Posted by jodes on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:55:00 PST

another gem from Trungpa... so simple, but are we doing it?

THE VISION OF COMPASSION : Taking the Mahayana approach of benevolence means giving up privacy and developing a sense of greater vision. Rather than focusing on our own little projects, we expand our ...
Posted by jodes on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:10:00 PST

RELATING

We are constantly trying to work out our relation to the other. It's like your dog meeting somebody else's dog. There is a growl, a sniff, a step forward, a potential rejection, or maybe an acceptance...
Posted by jodes on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:09:00 PST

attack of sneezing.....

MAKE FRIENDS WITH FEAR : In order to understand the notion of fearlessness, one has to understand fear itself. Fear is a trembling, shaky feeling of being afraid of nonexistence....Such fear is not ne...
Posted by jodes on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:20:00 PST