Dogs, Free-jazz, Heinfellung, Absolute Wilderness, A New Humanism, Subjectivism, Linguistics, Green Tara, Vajrakilaya and Bob Marley as yidam, Entheogenic Research, Unifying Physics, Species, and Physiology in a Post-Heirarchical, One-Love-State, of free exchange and proliferation of Genius.
The Virtual Tibetan Buddhist Sangha
Music
John Coltrane (esp. 61-67), Miles Davis (esp. 69-76), Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan (60's), Bauhaus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Mingus, Leadbelly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Canned Heat, John Zorn, Tom Petty, Method Man, Bob Marley, Billie Holliday, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Big Bill Broonzy, Pharoah Sanders, David Liebman, Charles Gayle, Suicide, Somnambulist, Crazy Low Budget, Kitten Cunt, Dunwich Junk, Eric Dolphy, Tom Waits, George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic, Parliament-Funkadelic, P-Funk, The P-Funk All Stars, Medeski Martin and Wood, DJ Spooky, DJ Krush, Mr. Bungle, Bird and Diz, Gutbucket, Violent Femmes, Insomniac Gypsies, BarTabBand, Augie and the Sandwich Factory, Professor Coleco Incognito, The Roadhouse Scholars, DJ Z-Trip, DJ QBert, Beastie Boys, Social Distortion, 13th Floor Elevators, Stanton Moore, Crass, Talking Heads, The Red Crayola, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Crystal Method, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Iggy Pop, White Zombie, Huun Huur Tu, Shartse Monks, Stevie Wonder (70's rhodes only), Cannonball Adderly, Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, Lockjaw Davis, Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Tori Amos, The Animals, Jerod Allen, Andrew Bird, Patrick Street, Ween, Switchblade Symphony, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Mad Season, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, Two-step, Aphex Twin, Lee Morgan, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, PJ Harvey, Michael Brecker, Stravinsky, Dallopicola, Liszt, Brahms, Beethoven, Weeping, Art Blakey, Otis Redding, Tim Berne, Peter Brotzman, Bela Bartok, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Beck, Bill Frissell, John Lennon, Ravi Shankar, Sonny Rollins, Love and Rockets, Curtis Mayfield, Atmosphere, Dee-Lite, Portishead, Bach, RZA, Dr. Timothy Polashek, Matt Polashek, Old Dirty, Pearl Jam, Dead Kennedys, Neurosis, Yonder Mountain, Soundtribesector9, The Kinks, Illumness Syndicate, Pennywise, Soul Coughing, Pink Floyd (pre-75), Garage Mahal, Mum, Marvin Gaye, Mike Patton, Neil Young, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Leonard Cohen, The Grateful Dead, Phish, Primus, Radiohead, Tool, The Beatles (late 60's), Digable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, John Scofield, Django Reinhardt, Stephan Grappelli, Kraftwerk.
Movies
The Emerald Forest, Deadman, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Nosferatu, Natural Born Killers, Rejected, Sunset Boulevard, Barfly, Ghost World, They Live, The Coronation of Ivan the Terrible, Red Dwarf, Excalibur, Apocalypse Now, Akira Kurosowa, Orson Welles, Andy Warhol, Bird, Straight No Chaser, 'Round Midnight, Atomic Cafe, The Addiction, The Deerhunter, La Vie Boheme, Everything Kubrick, Herzog, Kandinsky, Bruce Lee, or Cocteau.
Television
John Stewart, Steven Colbert, Lost, Dexter, sunday evening cartoons.... I haven't owned a tv in a long time.
Books
Works from before 800 A.D. based on an oral story and 40's and 50's counter culture. I also have a weakness for gothic tales, medieval romance, romantic poetry, Phillip K. Dick esque sci-fi, Russians, Poles, Germans, Irish, disturbingly rote Jungian-heroes-journey fantasy novels, L. Ron Hubbard (only to laugh at him), Shel Silverstein, Jean Craighead-George, Jack London, Marx/Engels, Trotsky, Guevera, Leadbelly, Dylan (both), and appalachian songwriters. Ah yes, secretly Umberto Eco is God.
Heroes
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Padmasambhava in Wrathful Aspect, John Coltrane, Stag-Gods of various pantheons, Burroughs, The Dog Yogi, Chagdud Tulku, Monty McKeever, and Pan.
Vajradhara Tilopa Naropa Marpa Milarepa Gampopa and the First Karmapa
Willy B. says: "Kids like to be scared."
GONZO SPEAKS ON BUSH
"What the hell is going on here? How could this once-proud nation have changed so much, so drastically, in only a little more than two years. In what seems like the blink of an eye, this George Bush has brought us from a prosperous nation at peace to a broke nation at war.
But wow! This goofy child president we have on our hands now. He is demonstrably a fool and a failure, and this is only the summer of '03. The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. . . The Bush family must be very proud of themselves today, but I am not. Big Darkness, soon come. Take my word for it.
The utter collapse of this Profoundly criminal Bush conspiracy will come none too soon for people like me. . . The massive plundering of the U.S. Treasury and all its resources has been almost on a scale that is criminally insane, and has literally destroyed the lives of millions of American people and American families. Exactly. You and me, sport -- we are the ones who are going to suffer, and suffer massively. This is going to be just like the Book of Revelation said it was going to be -- the end of the world as we knew it."
-- Hunter S. Thompson (2003) R.I.P.
Kobun Chino Roshi
"Who Is Your Teacher?" by Kobun Chino
The real purpose of practice is to discover the wisdom which you have always
been keeping with you. To discover yourself is to discover wisdom; without
discovering yourself you can never communicate with anybody. In everyday
life, we can pick up some glimpse of wisdom, like the polished tool of the
carpenter expresses that there is wisdom in the arm of the carpenter. It is
invisible, you cannot draw it and show it.
Wisdom doesn't come from anywhere; it is always there as the exact
contents of awakening--it is always there and everywhere. What you can do is
to uncover it, like going to the origin of a river, you take off the fallen
leaves. Have you been to the source of a river? It is a very mystic place.
You get dizzy when you stay for a while. An especially big river has several
sources, and the real source, the farthest point which turns to the major
stream, is moist and misty, with some kind of ancient smell, and you feel
cold. You feel, "This isn't the place to go in." There is no springing
water, so you don't know where the source is. Actually, such place exists in
everyone; the center of us is like that. From this place, the ancient call
appears, "Why don't you know me? Living so many years with me, why can't you
call my real name?"
Unfortunately, we cannot travel into such place with this body and mind, but
we feel there is such an origin, and from there everything starts. From that
place you have come, actually, and whatever you do is returning to that
spot. In one lifetime you can meet with other people, at least one other
beside yourself. So, in other words, two of you discover. This is why you
are continuing to live so hard.
The way to discover your origin is to listen to the one with whom you feel,
"This is it!". It looks like you can do it by yourself, without others, but
actually, by yourself alone you cannot discover that origin. Reaching to
that point, you never believe, "This is it." But pointing to another's
origin directly and saying, "That's my origin." at that moment another
finger appears, pointing at you, and says, "No, that's my origin." And you
get dizzy. "Wait a minute, are you my teacher or are you my student?" And
both say, " No, it doesn't matter. I can be your student; I'll be an ancient
Buddha for you." The student says this to the teacher. Without throwing your
whole life and body into others you can never reach to your own true nature.
The more your understanding of life becomes clearer, and more exact, and
painfully joyful, the more you feel, "I'm so bad." The one who appears and
says, "No, you are not bad at all, that is the way to go." That is your
teacher. Don't misunderstand, this teacher is not always a person. It can
embrace you like morning dew in a field, and you get a strange feeling, "Oh,
this is it, my teacher is this field."
How to go with your true self is to deeply bow to yourself and ask, "Please,
let me know about myself." Because we cannot do it alone, we have to do it
with someone who is able to accept our vow. Letting such an occasion occur
is what supreme awakening is. It is not your creation, you just admire the
place where you are and be with it, and that place is the place to meet with
your teacher. It doesn't need to be some special kind of place. When you are
a little bit mindful about yourself you can create such an opportunity . . .
between your children and yourself, between your parents and yourself.
Kobun Chino Roshi
[Thanks to Barbara King for supplying text from Kobun Chino Roshi's talks.
First published in "JIKOJI News", Spring 1997]
Selmer Mark VI 133649, Kalamazoo Gibson J-45, Modded Strat, Mandolin, Free-Form Novelist, Occasional Poet. I am attempting to tear the fabric of reality with thought, words, and music so that a rift can be made in our misperception and allow for some minute quantity of truth to slip into our consciousness.
Your results: You are Green Lantern
Green Lantern
80%
Superman
75%
Supergirl
65%
Iron Man
65%
Spider-Man
65%
Catwoman
65%
Hulk
60%
Wonder Woman
50%
Batman
50%
The Flash
45%
Robin
42%
Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.
Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...
You scored as Buddhism. Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Buddhism. Do more research on Buddhism and possibly consider becoming Buddhist, if you are not already.
In Buddhism, there are Four Noble Truths: (1) Life is suffering. (2) All suffering is caused by ignorance of the nature of reality and the craving, attachment, and grasping that result from such ignorance. (3) Suffering can be ended by overcoming ignorance and attachment. (4) The path to the suppression of suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path, which consists of right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right-mindedness, and right contemplation. These eight are usually divided into three categories that base the Buddhist faith: morality, wisdom, and samadhi, or concentration. In Buddhism, there is no hierarchy, nor caste system; the Buddha taught that one's spiritual worth is not based on birth.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
--Blaise Pascal
Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test personality tests by similarminds.com trait snapshot:
secretive, reclusive, messy, disorganized, introverted, unassertive, rarely worries, dislikes large parties, does not like to fit in, does not need to control others, solitary, ambivalent about chaos, tough, leisurely, does not respect authority, not aggressive, observer, abstract, impractical, dislikes leadership, daydreamer, bizarre, does not make friends easily, not a perfectionist, suspicious, rarely irritated, strong physical instincts, unsympathetic at times, risk taker, submissive, weird, sarcastic, strange
INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.
You are a curious person, always in a state of awareness.
Connected to all things spiritual, you are very connected to your soul.
You are wise and bright: able to reason and be reasonable.
Occasionally, you get quite depressed and have dark feelings.
You have great vision and can be very insightful.
In fact, you are often profound in a way that surprises yourself.
Visionary souls like you can be the best type of friend.
You are intuitive, understanding, sympathetic, and a good healer.
Souls you are most compatible with: Old Soul and Peacemaker Soul
You Are 92% Open Minded
You are so open minded that your brain may have fallen out!
Well, not really. But you may be confused on where you stand.
You don't have a judgemental bone in your body, and you're very accepting.
You enjoy the best of every life philosophy, even if you sometimes contradict yourself.
Astrolog 5.05 chart for Fri Feb 5, 1982 11:55am (ST -6:00 GMT) 91:14W 43:48N
Sun in Aquarius and 10th House: This person's spirit, ego, image of self, and
sense of aliveness is progressive, erratic, revolutionary, idealistic,
humanitarian, inventive, and desires individuality. Most often this
manifests in the area of life dealing with career, social stature, and
destiny. (This bit plays only a minor part in the person's psyche.)
Moon in Cancer and 2nd House: This person's emotional nature, moods, feelings,
and caring tendencies is introspective, emotional, protective, and wants
inner and outer security. Most often this manifests in the area of life
dealing with self image, self worth, and material security. This is a major
aspect of the person's psyche!
Retrograde Mercury in Aquarius and 9th House: This person's thoughts,
intellect, and communicative activity is very progressive, erratic,
revolutionary, idealistic, humanitarian, inventive, and desires
individuality. Most often this manifests in an independent, backward,
introverted manner, and in the area of life dealing with changes,
exploration, and the breaking of routine. It is easy for them to express this
part of themself.
Retrograde Venus in Capricorn and 9th House: This person's creativity,
tendencies for affection and calmness, and relationship needs is industrious,
practical, disciplined, and works for solitude and personal integrity. Most
often this manifests in an independent, backward, introverted manner, and in
the area of life dealing with changes, exploration, and the breaking of
routine.
Mars in Libra and 5th House: This person's will, energy, activity, and
aggressive, assertive tendencies is affectionate, tolerant, often indecisive,
appreciates beauty, and seeks balance, relationship, and calmness. Most often
this manifests in the area of life dealing with finding joy, pleasure, and
creative ..This bit plays only a minor part in the person's
psyche.)
Jupiter in Scorpio and 6th House: This person's enthusiastic, faithful, wise,
expansive, spontaneous nature is very penetrating, suspicious, introspective,
and desires to transform and remove outer masks. Most often this manifests in
the area of life dealing with work and feeling talented and useful.
Retrograde Saturn in Libra and 6th House: This person's part of mind that is
disciplined, respectful, and solitary is affectionate, tolerant, often
indecisive, appreciates beauty, and seeks balance, relationship, and
calmness. Most often this manifests in an independent, backward, introverted
manner, and in the area of life dealing with work and feeling talented and
useful. It is easy for them to express this part of themself.
Uranus in Sagittarius and 6th House: This person's individuality, desires for
change, and tendency to go against social norms is very jovial, open minded,
loves freedom, and seeks meaning and new experience. Most often this
manifests in the area of life dealing with work and feeling talented and
useful.
Neptune in Sagittarius and 7th House: This person's intuitive, spiritual,
compassionate, psychic nature is jovial, open minded, loves freedom, and
seeks meaning and new experience. Most often this manifests in the area of
life dealing with personal relationships and intimacy. It is easy for them to
express this part of themself.
Retrograde Pluto in Libra and 6th House: This person's destiny, and capacity to
transform the self and the outer world is affectionate, tolerant, often
indecisive, appreciates beauty, and seeks balance, relationship, and
calmness. Most often this manifests in an independent, backward, introverted
manner, and in the area of life dealing with work and feeling talented and
useful.
Chiron in Taurus and 12th House: This person's ability to help, heal, and teach
others, and where one has much experience is practical, often skeptical and
stubborn, and loves serenity and inner peace. Most often this manifests in
the area of life dealing with things that disrupt or cause disassociation
with the personality.
Ceres in Scorpio and 6th House: This person's tendency to direct energy to
instinctive, creative, reproductive goals is penetrating, suspicious,
introspective, and desires to transform and remove outer masks. Most often
this manifests in the area of life dealing with work and feeling talented and
useful. (This bit plays only a minor part in the person's psyche.)
Pallas Athena in Libra and 6th House: This person's tendency to direct energy
away from emotional and into mental pursuits is affectionate, tolerant, often
indecisive, appreciates beauty, and seeks balance, relationship, and
calmness. Most often this manifests in the area of life dealing with work and
feeling talented and useful.
Juno in Sagittarius and 7th House: This person's tendency to give away
individual power for the benefit of a relationship is jovial, open minded,
loves freedom, and seeks meaning and new experience. Most often this
manifests in the area of life dealing with personal relationships and
intimacy.
Vesta in Capricorn and 8th House: This person's capacity to direct creative
energy into personal or devotional goals is very industrious, practical,
disciplined, and works for solitude and personal integrity. Most often this
manifests in the area of life dealing with sex, death, the occult, and other
hard to grasp topics.
Retrograde North Node in Cancer and 3rd House: This person's karmic goals, and
best direction of evolutionary growth is introspective, emotional,
protective, and wants inner and outer security. Most often this manifests in
the area of life dealing with communicating to and receiving from the
environment.
Retrograde S.Node in Capricorn and 9th House: This person's karmic past, and
area of experience but little growth is industrious, practical, disciplined,
and works for solitude and personal integrity. Most often this manifests in
an independent, backward, introverted manner, and in the area of life dealing
with changes, exploration, and the breaking of routine.
Part of Fortune in Scorpio and 6th House: This person's place where opportunity
and success can be found is very penetrating, suspicious, introspective, and
desires to transform and remove outer masks. Most often this manifests in the
area of life dealing with work and feeling talented and useful.
Vertex in Scorpio and 6th House: This person's karmic fate and method of
reception of energies is very penetrating, suspicious, introspective, and
desires to transform and remove outer masks. Most often this manifests in the
area of life dealing with work and feeling talented and useful.
East Point in Taurus and 12th House: This person's generalized projected
personality and outward appearance is practical, often skeptical and
stubborn, and loves serenity and inner peace. Most often this manifests in
the area of life dealing with things that disrupt or cause disassociation
with the personality.
You scored as The Chosen One!. You are indeed the CHOSEN ONE! you absolutley love cheese, crayons, and you will save a baby inplace of and elderly woman,........how heroic! You will now fight Satan..............'s army of DOOM on the side of GOD!
What's shakin?
Hope the day is treating you well. Just wanted to let ya know that the CLOWNS vs. NINJAS music video is up now!!( for our song YOU GOT IT) ,,,a pit fight between clowns and ninjas...set to music? To view the short version, please go to our myspace, clownsvsninjas.com, or YOUTUBE. This is a completely independent music video filmed and funded by us, our good pals at Pitch Films, and a few great friends. The full 10 min thriller version is also available for purchase and includes the new EP in one package. Also, brand new tunes on the playa. Hope ya dig it, and if you do, please pass on to a friend.
Enjoy the carnage!
Thanks Mucho
-The Other Side of Morning
ROCK THAT CANDY SHOP!! mics'll work just fine with skype (set up a free account and we can talk, we just won't be able to see each other). i'm working like a dog 10 hour days and such but hopefully we can find a time this week!
