Tibetan Practice
The Buddha taught that we get old, get sick, and die. I’m old. Life is suffering. He said I teach suffering and the end of suffering.To me, it’s the only religion offering salvation in this life. I used to do Tibetan practice and it was powerfully changing my life, especially the Vajrakilya empowerment. Lama Inga said the practice made you invincible. I’ll admit that I was too tempted by samara and returned to it. My worst mistake.
THE BEAUTY
Merry Solstice
Illiteracy
Did The FB and Twitter erode grammer and spelling to a third grade level or are people simply becoming more illiterate? I had a linguistics professor who taught us the principals of transformational grammer but said all that mattered was whether one was understood. I disagree. One should obey the rules of their language.
Novelty
R.D. Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist in the 60’s, was horrified at the thought of a world even stranger than what was presently. Terence McKenna, a fellow fond of psychedelics, developed a theory about novelty in the universe he called Timewave Zero. When we reached maximum novelty the end was upon us. They died significantly before the present age. Laing world certainly see no redemptive dialectic in the vortex of accelerating change. Terence would see his theory vindicated by how extremely the present day is a break with, rather than an evolution of the past.
No Country for Old Men
Not as simple as good versus evil, No Country for Old Men explores the problem of free will versus determinism.
Defies all Earthly Description
Hail the Bornless One
The best song in metal. The second part is an invocation.