are ya ready for some phil-o-so'phizin'!? |
Posted by on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:19:00 GMT |
"This Place is a Prison" (random Buddhist interpretation #2) |
It's sort of obvious. It could just as easily be a Christian song for all the thought I've put into this [random act of Buddhist] interpretation. But in case it's not obvious -- samsara is the prison ...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:13:00 GMT |
random acts of Buddhist interpretation |
In this case, of:Long Line of Carsby CakeThere's a long line of cars and they're trying to get throughThere's no single explanation, there's no central destinationBut this long line of cars is trying ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:33:00 GMT |
three voices |
Three voices speak me:
Two born from sorrow, but one
Is senseless to all.
Three voices speak me:
Two born from sorrow, yet both
Are Self-obscured love.
Three voices speak me:
Two born from ...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 01:54:00 GMT |
"[the parable of] backward and forward" (a poem) |
One step backwards,One step forward.One lost in material oblivion,The other in polar potent inward entropy:Everyone.Nothing unmakes, but unknown making."Self" is "other" re-arragned.Someti...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 03:13:00 GMT |
haiku |
I also think of this as a bit of a koan, but since I'm not a Zen master that means exactly jack-shit.farther, and nearer --appreciate the silence,and aloneness ends.
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 02:21:00 GMT |
[one part of the] future of 'social networking' |
Right now, myspace (which I'll use as my example of a generic social network) has both 'mail' and 'groups'. I predict that in a few years these two functions will merge.If two people were to create a ...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:18:00 GMT |
stuff that happened |
Last Thursday was a bit tough. Got up early (8am), went to school, went to work afterwards. A friend called and asked me to go down to Fresno and pick her up, because sh was stranded. (Fresno is about...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:21:00 GMT |
anti-advice column, the first |
Since my call for questions in my last blog I have been deluged with three, ostensibly anonymous, desperate cries for the "help" of my anti-(or just wildly ill-founded)-advice. To wit (with responses...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:54:00 GMT |
solicitation for questions: the anti-advice column |
I'm always looking for ideas of things to write about. An idea that came to mind recently is an anti-advice column. You ask questions, I tell you exactly what not to do. (This blog also serves a way t...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:47:00 GMT |
