A Philosopher Asks Buddha
No commentsA philosopher asked the Buddha: “Can you tell me the truth without word and without wordlessness?” The Buddha answered with silence. The philosopher thanked him for his loving kindness, thanks to which he had entered the Tao. After he left, Ananda asked what he had learned. “A good horse runs even when seeing only the shadow of the whip.”
~ Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
A Little Food For Though
For those of us still reeling from the Sarah Palin Interview, check this out.
No commentsThe Dark Knight
I just came back from seeing The Dark Knight. For some odd reason, I feel disturbed and slightly unsettled. I thought the movie was great, a real tribute to the comic, but something about the movie left me feeling . . . off.
Maybe it was the characters? The Joker felt almost too real, unexplained and the embodiment of anarchistic mayhem, but I realize he’s a caricature. They all are.
Next guess?
The lack of a happy ending? I lamented earlier this evening that I need happy endings. The hopeless romantic in me wants to see love . . . somewhere. This movie exhibited love as an offering to be sacrificed, but I don’t think that’s it.
I’ll have to think about it, but the more I do the less I want to.
No commentsDeath of Another Hero
Like Bill Hicks before him, we’ve lost another hero. I want to take the time to write some appropriate thoughts on him later, but I’ll leave you with a clip in the interim:
No commentsI want one of these
This is the coolest instrument that I’ve seen in a while. I think I need one. Check it:
1 commentRemoving Attachment
By becoming attached to names and forms, not realising that they have no more basis than the activities of the mind itself, error rises and the way to emancipation is blocked. -Buddha
If only possessions/obsessions were so easily dispelled . . .
No commentsI Had No Idea
Luckily, when you have entrepreneur friends that are voracious readers and they pay attention, you stay informed (somewhat, by proxy.) I’m still really not sure why companies are still investing in ethanol (based on the original research, I thought it was ruled out as a relatively bad idea), but that’s one of the contributing factors for the price of wheat rising.
If you want to find out more, track this back to Ann’s blog and read more about it . . . buy some shortbread while you’re at it :)
No commentsBlackberry Blues
Whoever said that technology makes life easier is now on my short-list. My last Blackberry sync did a great job getting all of my computer’s info . . . though I really wish it hadn’t done any “Spring Cleaning,” specifically in the form of wiping all of my friends’ birthdays from iCal.
:: sigh ::
If any of my friends are reading this, could you let me know when, exactly, your birthday is? That’s so I can do what I normally do when that fateful day arrives . . . you know . . . not much.
2 commentsUpgrade
Well . . . I upgraded the blog to the newest Wordpress build. I’m currently using the fSpring theme as opposed to a custom theme . . . just to see how things go. NB: For those that don’t know, and for reasons unknown to me, my blog theme gets continually overwritten by the default theme, due to some hidden error (that I have been unable to find . . . mostly due to time constraints.)
We’ll see how things go.
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