do good things

A Samurai’s Creed

A Samurai’s Creed
Anonymous, Circa 1300

I have no parents; 

I make the heaven and earth my mother and father.
 

I have no home; 

I make awareness my dwelling.
 

I have no life and death; 

I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

I have no divine power; 

I make honesty my divine power.

I have no means; 

I make understanding my means.

I have no magic secrets; 

I make character my magic secret.

I have no body; 

I make endurance my body.

I have no eyes; 

I make the flash of lightning my eyes.

I have no ears; 

I make sensibility my ears.

I have no limbs; 

I make promptness my limbs.

I have no strategy; 

I make “unshadowed by thought” my strategy

I have no designs; 

I make “seizing opportunity by the forelock” my design.

I have no miracles; 

I make right action my miracle.

I have no principles; 

I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.

I have no tactics; 

I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.

I have no talents; 

I make ready wit my talent.

I have no friends; 

I make my mind my friend.

I have no enemy; 

I make carelessness my enemy.

I have no armor; 

I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.

I have no castle; 

I make immovable mind my castle.

I have no sword; 

I make absence of self my sword. 

it's the end

"The more you know, 

the crazier you look."

Romans 12

19 Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

20 But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

21 Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

irony

fear

I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.

Dune

mister e

the cell trailer...

the cell advance promo...

sock it to me

all life is precious

Church Of All Worlds

The Church of All Worlds (CAW) is a neopagan religious group whose stated mission is to evolve a network of information, mythology, and experience that provides a context and stimulus for reawakening Gaia and reuniting her children through tribal community dedicated to responsible stewardship and evolving consciousness.

The key founder of CAW is Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, who serves the Church as "Primate", later along with his wife, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, designated High Priestess. CAW was formed in 1962, evolving from a group of friends and lovers who were in part inspired by a fictional religion of the same name in the science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein; the church's mythology includes science fiction to this day. The headquarters are presently in Cotati, California.

CAW's members, called Waterkin, espouse pantheism, but the Church is not a belief-based religion. Members experience Divinity and honor these experiences while also respecting the views of others. They recognize "Gaea," the Earth Mother Goddess and the Father God, as well as the realm of Faeries and the deities of many other pantheons. Many of their ritual celebrations are centered on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. (read more)

No Mind

A Samurai’s Creed
Anonymous, Circa 1300


I have no parents;

I make the heaven and earth my mother and father.

I have no home;

I make awareness my dwelling.

I have no life and death;

I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

I have no divine power;

I make honesty my divine power.

I have no means;

I make understanding my means.

I have no magic secrets;

I make character my magic secret.

I have no body;

I make endurance my body.

I have no eyes;

I make the flash of lightning my eyes.

I have no ears;

I make sensibility my ears.

I have no limbs;

I make promptness my limbs.

I have no strategy;

I make “unshadowed by thought” my strategy

I have no designs;

I make “seizing opportunity by the forelock” my design.

I have no miracles;

I make right action my miracle.

I have no principles;

I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.

I have no tactics;

I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.

I have no talents;

I make ready wit my talent.

I have no friends;

I make my mind my friend.

I have no enemy;

I make carelessness my enemy.

I have no armor;

I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.

I have no castle;

I make immovable mind my castle.

I have no sword;

I make absence of self my sword.

.....

compassion

"Everything is burning.

What is burning?

The eyes are burning.

Everything seen by the eyes is burning.

The ears are burning.

What is burning?

Everything heard by the ears is burning.

The nose is burning.

Smells are ablaze.

The tongue is burning.

Tastes are ablaze.

The body is burning.

The mind is burning."

Buddha


D. Max Moerman, scholar: "We’re on fire; we may not know it but we’re on fire and we have to put that fire out. We’re burning with desire, we’re burning with craving. Everything about us is out of control."

W.S. Merwin, poet: "The Buddha goes on to talk about the three poisons: greed, and anger, and ignorance, and how the three poisons are what is making the fire, and the way out of doing this is not to deny the three poisons, but to recognize that if you turn them around, you come to their opposites."

Instead of greed, you have generosity; instead of anger, you have compassion; and instead of ignorance, you have wisdom.

(read more)

morality

"morality"...

is the greatest evil

in the world today...

why?...

because we have forgotten

what is moral.

DaliVision

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Salvador Dali - 1946

Cosmic Harmony

Today is

10/10/10

"International Cosmic Harmony Day"

...I just made it up

Imagine

Happy 70th birthday John Lennon

noble

This years Nobel Peace Prize winner is Liu Xiaobo,
he is currently sitting in a Chinese prison.

Freedom of Speech in China

Among the many people campaigning for human rights in China, Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, has become the most visible symbol of the struggle. A long-term exponent of non-violent protest, he is currently serving an 11-year prison term. (read more)

Liu Xiaobo; born 28 December 1955, is a Chinese intellectual, writer, and human rights activist and a political prisoner in China.

He has served as President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center since 2003. On 8 December 2008, Liu was detained in response to his participation with Charter 08. He was formally arrested on 23 June 2009, on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power." He was tried on the same charges on 23 December 2009, and sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and two years' deprivation of political rights on 25 December 2009.

During his 4th prison term from 2009 to 2020, he won the Nobel Peace Prize on 8 October 2010, for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." (read more)

love one another

Oberon

My true identity

status report

Mother and father dead from suicide...

Youngest brother dead from AIDS...

Other brother diagnosed with lung cancer...

Sister undergoing emergency spinal surgery...

Hey...could be worse.