Breathe. Breathing can transform your life. If you feel stressed out and overwhelmed, breathe. It will calm you and release the tensions. If you are worried about something coming up, or caught up in something that already happened, breathe. It will bring you back to the present. If you are discouraged and have forgotten your…… Continue reading Breathe
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The Base
the eyes are a deep ocean, with whirlpools and violent winds, and shadows beneath the surface and sea monsters deep within. my boat is sailing in mindfulness, I vow to hold the tiller firmly so that I do not drown in an ocean of form. using my conscious breath, I am guarding my eyes for…… Continue reading The Base
What is Enlightenment? (About.com tries to Answer)
The Sanskrit word for enlightenment is "bodhi," which means "awakened." But awakened to what?The only true answer to the question is to realize enlightenment. Short of that, we must come up with provisional answers that, the teachers tell us, do not really do justice to enlightenment.Enlightenment can be defined as the cessation of dukkha, which is…… Continue reading What is Enlightenment? (About.com tries to Answer)
Questions
“We create paradise or hell in our own minds. What conditions do you need to be truly happy? If those conditions are never realized, will you suffer the rest of your life? Or could you manage to be happy even without them? We have many conditions for happiness, but we rarely benefit from them. Please…… Continue reading Questions
The Crunch by Charles Bukowski
too much too little too fat too thin or nobody. laughter or tears haters lovers strangers with faces like the backs of thumb tacks armies running through streets of blood waving winebottles bayoneting and fucking virgins. or an old guy in a cheap room with a photograph of M. Monroe. there is a loneliness in…… Continue reading The Crunch by Charles Bukowski
Turnabout by Bukowski
she drives into the parking lot while I am leaning up against the fender of my car. she’s drunk and her eyes are wet with tears: “you son of a bitch, you fucked me when you didn’t want to. you told me to keep phoning you, you told me to move closer into town, then…… Continue reading Turnabout by Bukowski
Jello Biafra’s Open Letter to Obama
My Friends (couldn’t resist, I had to say it), Here, by semi-popular demand, are the suggestions I sent to Obama’s Change.gov site for citizen input. It veers from writing to Obama himself to writing for the people who may actually read this. A lot of these ideas may be familiar from my albums and spoken…… Continue reading Jello Biafra’s Open Letter to Obama
Houston Invades New York
Here are Jim’s recent journal entries, by which you will soon understand in the course of reading these letters it becomes apparent that he just does not give a fuck—and so, well, Jim will probably not give a fuck by me reposting them here: Houston Invades New York I am back from new york….the highlights…… Continue reading Houston Invades New York
WINTER: FOR AN UNTENABLE SITUATION
One of my favorite writers, Alan Dugan, puts it down like this: WINTER: FOR AN UNTENABLE SITUATION Outside it is cold. Inside, although the fire has gone out and all the furniture is burnt, it is much warmer. Oh let the white refrigerator car of day go by in glacial thunder: when it gets dark,…… Continue reading WINTER: FOR AN UNTENABLE SITUATION
Belief and Technique (Jack Kerouac)
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose, a list of thirty “essentials.” 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside your own house 4. Be in love with your life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form…… Continue reading Belief and Technique (Jack Kerouac)
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