there is no 'i' in buddhism: July 2013

These days, every day I tell myself tomorrow I'm going to do something different. I tell myself with conviction that I'm going to do something different. Every day I end up doing the same old nothing I did yesterday.

about me:

This weblog is not being written to be read. It charts a ~~mental decline and a~~ relentless, often distracted, crawl towards an inevitable suicide, with sophomoric ruminations on religion from a Buddhist biased point of view, ~~some armchair cosmology and astrophysics~~, ~~monastic aspirations~~, unexceptional photography and other really, really, REALLY DEEP THOUGHTS that contradict themselves and aren't supposed to be watertight. Get off my back.

"With mind distracted, never thinking, 'Death is coming,'
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty - it is a tragic error.
Recognition of necessity is the holy teaching
So won't you live this divine truth from now on?"
These are the words of the great adepts.
If you don't put the Mentor's precept in your mind,
Won't you be the one who deceives yourself? - Bardo Thödol (root verses).

Tibetan Book of the Dead documentary

reading list

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - Ringu Tulku
Dakini's Warm Breath - Judith Simmer-Brown
Secret of the Vajra World - Reginald Ray
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche
The Essential Zohar: The Source of Kabbalistic Wisdom - Rav P.S. Berg
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
Mountain Record of Zen Talks - John Daido Loori
Illusions - Richard Bach
The Conference of the Birds - Farid ud-Din Attar
Heart Wood from the Bodhi Tree - Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
The Character of Rain (The Metaphysics of Tubes) - Amelie Nothomb

there is no 'i' in buddhism

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

about me:

other web presences

Blog Archive

other links:

Labels

full list of mix CDs of every year of my life, imbued with blessings

Desert Island Discs

reading list

About Me