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life ...

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is filled with
beginnings
and
serendipity

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be where love is



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what is the benefit
of exerting mental effort
the wrong way?
guon

if we divide into two camps -- even into violent and the nonviolent -- and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. we will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. we must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact. ayya khema

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the word of the day:

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the woman is just ... magic.


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(thanks to unthaw)
strut yo' stuff, ms. lang!
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http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=kd%20lang%20i%20will%20survive&scope=video&docid=1031174619876&FORM=HOTAPI#


can any lock keep love confined within, when the loving heart's tiny tears escape and confess it? the unloving belong only to themselves, but the loving belong to others to their very bones.
st. thiruvalluvar

(thanks to sheri)
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it is our ethical obligation to find hope.
tony kushner

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the
expectancy
of
good

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and on it goes ...

a court in burma sentenced daw aung san suu kyi to prison. she will serve18 months under house arrest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/asia/12myanmar.html?th&emc=th

daw aung san suu kyi was allowed to meet with western diplomats in what appeared to be a sign of a possible
detente between the junta and the west.

the invisible history that sparked the burmese government's relationship with daw aung san suu kyi:


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heroes, not victims:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/opinion/26kristof.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

spellcasters:

(thanks to jesse)
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(thanks to crowdog)
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random quotes:

all those beautiful nuances, and i love a nice clause. (sujata)

genuine compassion is unbiased. (h.h. the dalai lama)

a wound is just a highway to a new and enlightened kind of confidence. (kd lang)

if you want happiness to bloom within you, simply water the seeds. (t.n. hanh)

don't be discriminatory, don't keep a grasping and rejecting attitude. for this reason it is said truth has no comparison, because it is not relative to anything. (hui-chung)

the direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. (eve merriam)

you want to know my philosophy? one day a peacock. the next day a feather duster. (pat quinn, illinois gov.)

ever tried. ever failed. no matter. try again. fail again. fail better. (samuel beckett)

if you want others to be happy, practice compassion. if you want to be happy, practice compassion. (h.h. the dalai lama)

c'est la vie say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. (chuck berry)

it is a shame to become fixated on any idea. one should always attempt to remain open to any idea which contradicts one's most cherished beliefs. ('roaring silence')

be happy for this moment. this moment is your life. (omar khayyam)

so hard to see, so very, very subtle, alighting wherever it likes: the mind. the wise should guard it. the mind protected brings ease. (dhammapada, 3, translated by thanissaro bhikkhu)

it's disorienting to grasp that the world itself is neutral and that all the familiarity and unfamiliarity i feel is being carried around in my head. ... the road we know is always shorter than the road we don't know - even if the distances are the same. (verlyn klinkenborg)

here, have a nose shield. (man on beach to mickey roarke's character in 'angel heart')

all that comes here comes to pass. (the avett bros.)

it is not that anger and desire are inherently evil or that we should feel ashamed when they arise. it is a matter of seeing them as the delusions that they are: distorted conceptions that paint a false picture of reality. they are negative because they lead to unhappiness and confusion. (kathleen mcdonald)

in the sunshine in the morning the fish all line up with their noses just breaking the surface, facing the sun. (sujata)

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the human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
samuel clemens/mark twain

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laughter promotes understanding. whereas understanding leads to peace, certainty leads to conflict and violence.
giles fraser

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happiness is not pleasure ... and unhappiness, as the buddhists say, is not the same as suffering. suffering - in the sense of old age, sickness and death - is the law of life; unhappiness is just the position we choose - or can not choose - to bring to it.
pico iyer

the flow of dharma - or the flow of one's own innate buddhanature - is like water. there are obstacles, but eventually the water will find its way around them.
kd lang

http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3184&Itemid=247

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make a wish and place it in the bowl.
one never knows ...

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big sur through the lens of edward weston, as narrated by his son kim weston:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/29/travel/20090329-weston.html

shell by edward weston:
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the deforestation of the amazon:
'environmental groups are offering money in an effort to prevent farmers from cutting down rain forest.'
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/22/world/0822-DEGREES_index.html?th&emc=th
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'small islands of forest dot the landscape of farms and ranches, fulfilling regulations to maintain percentages of native forest on agricultural properties. driven by profits derived from fertile soil, the region's dense forests have been aggressively cleared over the past decade, and mato grosso is now brazil's leading producer of soy, corn and cattle, exported across the globe by multinational companies. ... deforestation, a critical contributor to climate change, effectively accounts for 20 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions and 70 percent of the emissions in brazil.'
related article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/science/earth/22degrees.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all
related video:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/08/09/science/earth/1247463864468/balancing-brazil-s-forests.html?th&emc=th



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AT THE DECHEN PHODRANG MONASTIC SCHOOL IN THIMPHU, BHUTAN, MARCH 27, 2008 Mike Rogers, a 27-year-old documentary filmmaker from Singapore, shows novice monks what he just shot. "I grew up in Singapore, and one of the reasons I moved back there was simply because of the travel opportunities in Asia. There are so many cultures, such a rich history of those cultures, so many nuances: a Buddhist in Bhutan is different from a Buddhist from Thailand or Cambodia. We were at the monastic school when the dinner bell went off, and this flood of kids came out of their classrooms and down a hill, probably 100, 150 of them. I had set up the tripod at the bottom, to catch them coming down the footpath. But once they saw I was down there, they decided to run down the more treacherous way, and I captured them all in slow motion. When you show a digital image to kids from a place where they don't see that so often, they get really excited. But this time it was in slow motion, so I was bending time right there in front of them - and they were ecstatic."

[from the ny times]


i like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that i walk on the wondrous earth. in such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality.

people usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. but i think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. all is a miracle.
thich nhat hanh

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i want
the words to flutter

around you and land softly

on your shoulders in peace.


stand still

and they will gather.
baloot


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is i mo chroí atá mo neart.
is i mo chroí atá mo laige.
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a half-century.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ...
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first impressions is a folio of thoughts, observations and, in most cases, remembrances. two of the pieces, 'transition' and 'unexpected treasure', were written within the last two years, the other ones within a day or so of the posting date.

i am grateful to have been given a cybercloud on which to rest them, am very grateful to those who take time to read them, and am more grateful still to those who generously offer their comments. such touching of hearts and minds is a treasure.

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first impressions

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    07/30/09 17:08:46 | 16 comments

    something caught my notice today, as i was engaged in my daily perambulation, which caused me to...
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