joined on 08/07/07
last updated 04/13/08
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about me
Suppose I'll say something cleaver and interesting here - I share a birthday with Groucho Marx and Mahatma Gandhi, so my alter-ego is Groucho Gandhi - "say the magic word and win a non-violent conflict resolution". I believe in taking life lightly, even though I'm dammed serious about some things, the state of the planet, the state of world consciousness, the poor understanding humans have of both and of themselves...
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Omega Vector
Omega is a non-profit, experiential personal growth seminar that has been life changing for many people. I highly recommend it!
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Jane Fendelman
Jane is a masters level counselor in Phoenix, who has a range of specialties, and she's an inspired and inspiring person!
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Spiritual Awakening, with James Bean
James Bean puts out a wonderful i-radio show called Spiritual Awakening, and covers a broad knowledge of eastern, western, and mystical traditions.
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New Dimensions
New Dimensions is a vast resource of interviews with leading edge thinkers, with information on alternative spiritual, environmental, societal and cultural progress.
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In the human condition
This is a blog I've started on wordpress. It's a work in progress.
Material Science
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The subtle questions come and go in a flash. Like sub-atomic particles, they pop in and out of existence depending on the energy. What is my longing? That is the galaxy I hold in front of me, not what is my need, what is my whim, or, in nearly all...
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Re: 2. Miss-Information around ENLIGHTENED AWARENESS
(in **kundalini yoga**)
I just take it for granted that the vast majority of people in the world can't get it. That to them, yoga is about postures and breathing, and that being "enlightened" is about having some sophisticated or special intellectual information which se...
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discussion post on Fri, July 18, 2008 - 10:51 PM
Re: conflict
(in Bodhisattvas)
Someone once joked, "in your life you should be able to kill one person and one person only". I think if that were true, the weight of regret and sorrow which would arise would shock most (but unfortunately not all) of us in to never ever even thi...
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discussion post on Wed, July 16, 2008 - 11:19 PM
Re: Sister twin
(in ! Rumi)
Awesome Shervin!
My muse has left me for a time
as his is want to do,
can I borrow yours
when you're not using it?
discussion post on Wed, July 16, 2008 - 7:00 PM
Re: bees
(in ! Rumi)
"You are in love with me,
I shall make you perplexed.
Do not build much,
for I intend to have you in ruins.
If you build two hundred houses
in a manner that the bees do;
I shall make you as homeless as a fly.
If you are the mount Qa...
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discussion post on Wed, July 16, 2008 - 6:54 PM
The subtle questions come and go in a flash. Like sub-atomic particles, they pop in and out of existence depending on the energy. What is my longing? That is the galaxy I hold in front of me, not what is my need, what is my whim, or, in nearly all, what is my reflex in opposition. My longing, to write, to muse on that which others grasp, two-handed, and to be heard beneath the molecular noise of those electron currents. My longing is to dissipate the heat in that phase change, for the solidne...
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People ask for the road to Cold Mountain,
but no road reaches Cold Mountain.
Summer sky-still ice won't melt.
The sun comes out but gets obscured by mist.
Imitating me, where does that get you?
My mind isn't like yours.
When your mind is like mine
you can enter here.
- Hanshan
Wed, July 16, 2008 - 6:17 PM
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Hi Gang, I hate to stray too far from spiritual topics, but I've long been of the opinion that much of the run up in oil and gas prices is due to excessive speculation in the commodities markets. Over the course of the last few months, different groups of people have come to agree with me, including Airlines, gas station trade organizations (they make only a few cents per gallon, and many gas station retailers and even refiners are now hurting), and many others - essentially anyone and everyo...
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Here’s another Zen story for you. A small village receives word that a fierce and terrible Samurai is headed their way, and all the town’s people, including all of the monks in a nearby Buddhist monastery, flee for their lives. The monastery’s abbot, a wise man, of full concentration and possessed in complete equanimity, remains seated on his meditation cushion. When the warrior arrives in the town, and finds it empty, he goes to the monastery and discovers the abbot still seated there. The S...
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There once was a Buddhist monk who practiced his meditation by walking in the forest each morning. On one clear crisp morning, the monk heard a rustling in the leaves and looked up to see a large tiger watching him from a distance. Sensing that the tiger was about to attack, the monk started running as fast as he could, only to come to a clearing and a high cliff. Not seeing any other way to go, the monk grasped a large vine running partly down the side of the cliff, and began to climb down i...
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! Rumi,
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