Archives for 2007
I want to be this lady when I grow up. She is 60, and she has fibromyalgia and a blue belt in Karate. Is that cool or what?
Under the Bush administration, the FCC has decided to correct a horrible oversight. See, up to now, the Hearst Corporation (run by descendants of William Randolf Hearst) and poor Rupert Murdoch has been prevented, by government interference, from owning a few straggling newspapers and television stations. Now, thank goodness, action is being taken to correct [...]
Taisen Deshimaru Roshi has said that in the martial arts these three things are needed: shin (mind-spirit), wasa (technique), and tai (body-strength), and that they must be in perfect balance. But he has also said that “in a young person the body is the fundamental element, whereas in an older man technique and spirit predominate.” [...]
I have heard people tell me that they don’t want to study Karate (or any martial art) because, they say, it’s not practical, or it’s too structured, too choreographed to be worthwhile. I’ve even heard students complain that endless punches and blocks will not help them to become… whatever it is they hope to become. [...]
People need unconditional love. I instantly recognized the truth of that idea when I ran across the work of Carl Rogers in college. But that creates a dilemma for me. Either it’s actually possible to love unconditionally, or it’s not. If it’s not, then something is required for the full expression of humanity that we [...]
I’m liking Jesus better all the time. At least, I’m liking the Jesus that’s forming in my mind. Once I got a clear understanding of love… It’s what holds everything together, and it’s the everything too! — Rumi …I began to have an easier time seeing the light in stories about Jesus. Especially the stories [...]
I am trying to really get it. I know–we all know, by now–that our intention is very powerful. All we have to do is focus, pay attention, and anything we choose is ours. But there’s the problem: what do we choose? I’ve talked to folks who’ve just been exposed to ideas like the ones in [...]
A few months ago, I wrote what may turn out to be my last poem. There’s a part of me that that would love to put together more words, this time to tell you how we are one, how you and I are a universe, all by ourselves, a singularity that split itself in two [...]
I’ve been pretty convinced that switching to ethanol, running cars on corn, is a bad idea. It has looked like a big corporate monoculture nightmare. But I just found some hope. I just discovered David Blume, whose work on biofuels comes from a permaculture perspective. Alcoholcanbeagas.com offers answers to my objections. If this guy is [...]
Shit. I just filled my gas tank with a biofuel blend. And I was thinking about how there are serious problems with corn as a fuel. And I told myself, “yeah, but it’s clearly better than oil and blood, which is what the other 90% of the fuel is made of.” Oh my god. No [...]
I received a message, very clearly, over the course of a few weeks, saying “You are a very powerful person.” Over and over, people I’d meet would say to me, “You are powerful.” So it wasn’t just in my mind that I got the message, but from people around me. “You are so powerful.” Shortly [...]
There is no such thing as a student, and there is no such thing as a teacher. Those are only roles we play, depending on how our attention is directed. I had the experience today of having some wisdom dropped at my feet. It came in the form of an unexpected phone call. It came [...]
I suppose this recent concentration on staying grounded and earthy is going to be a good thing. Right now, I’m doing energy work. I’ve finally got it through my thick head that until I allow the free flow of energy through me, I’m not going to have real peace. It’s a weird, swirly rabbit-hole, more [...]
Who I am I am a manifestation of the force that you can only begin to see, to trust. I am a being of light, of the divine-quantum-love-energy that is the one, where all energy and all power rests, and where you are completely safe and whole. I am individualized, and walking in the dream, [...]
I picked up an audio book at the library, Love Is a Fire and I Am Wood: The Sufi’s Mystical Journey Home, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, mostly because Sufi teachings have been fitting well for me lately, and audio books fill my hunger at times when I… should… oh, probably be meditating rather than keeping my [...]
There are people all around us who think that what they see is what is real, who forget that they are beings of light, embodiments of divine energy. Forgetting is easy, it seems, but it hurts so much that once the truth comes to your attention, it becomes harder to ignore. At least, it does [...]
I think I already wrote a somewhat unfocused post on Zaadz about this, but it just won’t go away. Again I’m reminded how, when I’m really impressed with my growth, I realize that it doesn’t look much like growth from the outside. Here’s an example, probably way more confessional that I should post online. (Famous [...]
I neglected our community garden space this week, because we’ve had some rain, and some cooler weather, so I figured it didn’t need me. When I got there, I discovered that rain not only waters the plants we planted there, but also the weeds. It’s a very green, very weedy garden! But there’s plenty of [...]
Peak Oil folks keep saying that the sky is falling, and we’d better get ready. It seems like wishful thinking to me. Yes, sure, we’re running out of oil. But if you’re thinking that means we will no longer be able to depend on the folks with the power, that we’ll have to become human [...]
I went to a hempfest this weekend. Here’s proof! I was helping at a booth supporting Ron Paul for president. If you haven’t learned about Ron Paul, you should. Generally, I think politicians are all part of the problem, but Paul may be an exception. He’s a good guy, and could really help to wake [...]
This year, we’re gardening. We’re growing food, which is as spiritual a thing as I’ve ever done. It’s really beautiful. As a result, though, the “trash” we create when cooking isn’t boxes and packaging. It’s food scraps. And I began to get really tired of throwing them away. Working hard to grow food, then cutting [...]
I still can’t get it through my head that this is not going to go away. I still think after a few good days that I’m all better, and I still blame myself when I have bad days. Actually, I don’t even realize that they’re bad days. It’s a strange mental process that lets me [...]
Well, healing happens, yes, but maybe even slower than I realized. I only made it through a few Karate classes back in February, and haven’t been back since. I have had more slumps since then, including one, fairly recently. The good news is that I’m learning things. I think it’s taken me this long to [...]
Time for poetry Are you a poet the new guy asks, trying to assess my fuckability I don’t know how to answer How do I say I’m too busy being the creative force of the universe to be his poet, fuckable or not How do I say that being god occupies nearly every waking moment, [...]
In the past, I’ve avoided using “Namaste” because friends I know who are from India tell me it just means “hello” or something, and doesn’t really have any spiritual meaning. I figured it was like the English word, “goodbye.” That word could be said to mean “God be with you,” but we certainly don’t understand [...]
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