19 Aug Post Card, 1910
"Don't worry about the future, the present is all thou hast; the future will soon be present, and the present will soon be past." Family post card sent from Kansas to Tennessee, 1910. Courtesy of Kate Bowers. Homespun advice from the farm belt; reminiscent of Buddhist teachings, long before they were popularized in America....
18 Aug An Experience Is Whatever You Want It To Be
"Some squirrels in south Georgia, they'll taste a little bit more nutty. Up here [Baltimore], our acorns and stuff aren't really as strong as the ones down south. Most of them up here, it just tastes like squirrel. If you put enough seasoning on it, you can make it taste like anything you want it to taste like." -- Ben Cleveland Cleveland is a football player for the Baltimore Ravens. He comes from Georgia where he ate squirrel meat when there wasn't much else to eat. ....
08 Aug Koan 99
You cannot escape a prison if you don't know you're in one. The self creates a familiar and comforting world out of an otherwise chaotic and scary universe. We escape to this world, not realizing it imprisons us. The self's prison separates us from the universe. However, there is nothing to fear as we are the universe. Inside our prison we're engaged with what happens in life and our self's emotional reactions. We rarely disengage to wonder who, where and what we are. Yet, by observing our world and what surrounds it, we realize we know no thing. The illusory knowledge of our self's creation is the foundation of our prison. We can then know nothing; what every thing is before and after it is what it is whatever it is in the now. Nothing is the essence of every thing. As our illusory knowledge lifts like clouds, we see the vastness of the night sky and realize we are the universe....
08 Aug Albert Einstein
"People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Everything is all at once. As that is overwhelming, our mind has created time to make it all a seemingly manageable to experience....
07 Aug Koan 183
"The way to live eternal life is in a state of perpetual orgasm." -- Karen Uppal Orgasm is like the Big Bang in reverse. Instead of nothing becoming an infinite number of things, we become the Everything. Few words are ever said at the moment of orgasm, other than: "Oh my God."...
06 Aug Way Of Way 156
Much of what we undoubtedly think we see as reality is just a movie projected from our mind. To see reality we need to close our mind and open our eyes....