Music, cars, car parts, music, racing, drifting, tattoos, music, raves, baseball, music.
Anyone and everyone!If our mind is bound up in regret and unhappiness and we don't recognize its true nature, then we experience a state of unhappiness and see our mind and the minds of others as faulty. If, instead, we can rest in the true nature of the mind, then we will experience bliss and other qualities of the true nature. If we can meditate that way both now and in the future, then we are very fortunate, because this is the perfect meditation of vipashyana, or insight. It is also shamatha meditation, because we are resting in a state of peace, in the nature of bliss and other qualities of the mind."We spend a lot of time trying to nail everything down, concretizing, just trying to make everything solid and secure. We also spend a lot of time trying to dull or soften or fend off that vividness. When we awaken our hearts, we are changing the whole pattern, but not by creating a new pattern. We are moving further and further away from concretizing and making things so solid and always trying to get some ground under our feet. This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted, and shaky---that's called enlightenment, liberation. Krishnamurti talks about it in his book Liberation from the Known,Alan Watts in the Wisdom of Insecurity. It's all getting at the same thing.../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../ ../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../ ../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../ ../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../ ../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../This isn't how we usually go about things, in case you hadn't noticed. We usually try to get ground under our feet. It's as if you were in a spaceship going to the moon, and you looked back at this tiny planet Earth and realized that things were vaster than any mind could conceive and you couldn't just handle it, so you started worrying about what you were going to have for lunch. There you are in outer space with this sense of the world being so vast, and then you bring it all into this very tiny world of worrying about what's for lunch: hamburgers or hot dogs. We do this all the time."
Rock, Techno, and everything else! In no order what-so-ever: Crossfade, Slipknot, Hatebreed, Korn, Godsmack, Story Of The Year, Blink-182, Underoath, Ded-Prez, Common, Jedi Mind Tricks, Chevelle, Coldplay, Deftones, Evans Blue, Hoobastank, Immortal Technique, Incubus, Linkin Park, Mos Def, Nas, Obie Trice, Scars Of Tomorrow, Senses Fail, Sevendust, Silverstein, Staind, System Of A Down, Three Days Grace, Thursday, Tool, Lamb Of God, Disturbed, Lacuna Coil, Devildriver, Warren G, 2-Pac, Eminem, Paul Oakenfold, DJ Snowman, DJ Irene, DJ Ice, Arch Enemy, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Angels & Airways, Adema, Shadows Fall, Demon Hunter, Busta Rhymes, Phil Collins, Darude, House Of Pain, and many more!
Braveheart, Fast and the Furious movies, The Notebook, The Messenger, Thirteenth Warrior, Black Hawk Down, Thin Red Line, The Patriot, Click, Zoolander, The Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Troy and many more.
Don't watch it! Got better things to do!
Books related to the mind, and books that make you think outside the everyday human bubble!
My mom! She has influenced my life and done some many things for me to bring me up to who and what I am today! Love you mom! :)