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“Language is a virus from outer space.” William S. Burroughs There’s a blog post in that probably. But these bonbons are better. 9 minutes ago from web
Having a word splurge day. It’s better than sugar. 10 minutes ago from web
“I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.” William S. Burroughs 12 minutes ago from web
“Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.” William S. Burroughs 12 minutes ago from web
A flow of random data points. It doesn’t mean something. It doesn’t signify something. It isn’t something.The random is life’s thrill ride. 15 minutes ago from web
You are not your words 31 minutes ago from web
Like an archeologist digging through the midden heaps of ancient times. Or the geologist examining layers of rock. The Dharma of Twitter. about 1 hour ago from web
2nd Life could be renamed 3rd Life.The Internet is a 2nd Life. How can any of this be taken with utter seriousness? Layers and layers of… about 1 hour ago from web
Hysterical tea-baggers call anyone who disagrees Nazis,fascists-all about enforcing conformity. If it weren’t so dangerous it would be funny about 2 hours ago from web
@ thank you for the mention in your examiner piece. about 14 hours ago from web
New blog post http://bit.ly/9FoQAb about 23 hours ago from web
@ @I vote for Inuktitut.Then we all start from the same place. Wait! Wasn’t that a Star Trek episode? 4:43 PM Feb 1st from web in reply to
@ I will take the blame for that one. नमस्ते! (Namaste) 4:18 PM Feb 1st from web in reply to
Via my friend : “An artist wears her art in place of wounds.” -Patti Smith 3:37 PM Feb 1st from Retweeted by you
don’t lose yourself. The most destructive downside of caring too much what others think, is that you constantly strive to improve yourself. 8:12 AM Feb 1st from web
There’s always humor in reading the self-styled gurus. 3 paragraphs of false modesty followed by 14 of self-congratulations and advertising 8:01 AM Feb 1st from web
@ Admiring your restraint. 10:46 AM Jan 31st from web in reply to
@Don’t you make me have to go and get a Kleenex for myself now! Sheesh! 9:55 PM Jan 30th from web in reply to
@Hate! WTF is that good for? Here’s a Kleenex.9:50 PM Jan 30th from web in reply to
@ “hurt feelings” Is someone divorcing me again? quivering lip, tears welling up… 
9:46 PM Jan 30th from web in reply to
@ No insult. No sweat. Bizness as usual. 9:11 PM Jan 30th from web in reply to
@ 0 Rs notes. Hoping they come to my area. Will hand out & have a story published in the local news. It’s quite bad sometimes. 4:33 PM Jan 29th from web in reply to
@ @ Bowler hat and cane. Hire an assistant who looks like Mrs. Peel 8:06 PM Jan 26th from web in reply to
@ I also recommend a jaunty beret. 5:59 PM Jan 26th from web in reply to
Blog post- More on Invisible Women- Comments http://bit.ly/84YgOS 10:07 PM Jan 25th from web
Blog post-about lists, comment response, communications theory and writing as art etc. http://bit.ly/4OnAl7 10:45 PM Jan 24th from web
What is this “sleep” thing I keep hearing about? 2:13 AM Jan 24th from Retweeted by you and 49 others
Just going to retweet all day cause I don’t feel like thinking too much. Shifting into neutral. Vrrroommm Oops just wrecked the transmission 3:08 PM Jan 24th from web
@ lists=mish-mash dharma? Yes. I attribute it to selective attachment to a few lines of Kalama Sutra & ignoring all else. 1:16 PM Jan 23rd from web in reply to
@ ‘Who Has Seen the Wind? by W.O. Mitchell was required reading in grade school in Canada. An old favorite for many incl. me 8:49 PM Jan 22nd from web in reply to
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #mussourie_india #buddhist #writer #activist #poet #women 1:47 PM Jan 22nd from WeFollow
Big lessons on desire, attachment in Roger Ebert’s post Nil by Mouth http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/nil_by_mouth.html 6:08 PM Jan 20th from web
Pple who RT without credit to appear funny/concerned/clever/whatever mashupguy w/ nobody home #think4yourself #quitfrontinwmyshit 9:45 PM Jan 18th from web
Screenwriter/director @johnaugust John August’s post Professional Writing and the Rise of the Amateur – xcellent points http://bit.ly/Jd7G4 9:11 PM Jan 18th from web
Blog post Lists http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/lists/ 2:10 PM Jan 18th from web
Blog post–Dharma Lessons from the DOD and CIA http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/dharma-lessons-from-the-dod-and-the-cia/ 10:22 PM Jan 15th from web
@ “about.com” Corporate policy. Colorful writing is discouraged. 4:03 PM Jan 15th from web in reply to
@ “enlightenment ward” is like a thinking person’s Barbara’s Buddhist Blah.I mean blog|Thnx J. Babs is too excitable s’times. 3:46 PM Jan 15th from web in reply to
Blog post Current Events http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/current-events-2010-01-15/ 12:39 PM Jan 15th from web
140 character short stories. Microflash fiction. http://twitter.com/arjunbasu 12:14 PM Jan 14th from web
Blog-Lessons on Practice from the Martial Arts http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/lessons-on-practice-from-the-martial-arts/ 11:09 PM Jan 11th from web
@ I am suggesting that people are generally very shallow. Ouch. 10:14 AM Jan 7th from web in reply to
@On blog votes: It seems the appearance of things gets more attention than the substance of things in any realm. 9:41 AM Jan 7th from web in reply to
Blog post Current Events http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/current-events/ 12:01 PM Jan 5th from web
@ It’s at Diamond Hill in Kowloon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Lin_Nunnery 8:15 AM Jan 2nd from web
@ Chi-Lin Buddhist Nunnery in HK is worth a visit. Architecture, lotus ponds, peace in the heart of the city 8:05 AM Jan 2nd from web in reply to
Blogpost on the Duff situation. http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/the-ugly-face-of-commercial-pseudo-buddhist-self-help/ 8:36 PM Dec 30th, 2009 from web
A strange creature, the human being; groping in the dark with an intelligent look.Sawaki Roshi 8:24 PM Dec 28th, 2009 from web
@ How do you know they blocked you? (Yeah I don’t do Twitter much) 4:15 PM Dec 28th, 2009 from web in reply to
@ You missed much of the same as before and after.Wrinkles in cyber-time are less jarring than in real time.Often even unnoticeable. 10:30 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from web in reply to
Right Lifestyle blogpost http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/right-lifestyle/ 7:08 AM Dec 21st, 2009 from web
My practice=Sit, chant or whatever. Learn Buddhist stuff. Ask questions. Develop bodhicitta. Meet similar others. Get over yourself. 11:59 AM Dec 19th, 2009 from web
China DisabledPeople’sPerformingArtsTroupe http://bit.ly/4FkBRd 8:08 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from web
The Best Buddhist Book I Read This Year http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/2009the-best-buddhist-book-i-read-this-year/ 3:36 AM Dec 13th, 2009 from web
@ @ Glad to see the forum & wiki. Building a foundation.There’s more to come from other quarters in 2010. 10:53 PM Dec 10th, 2009 from web in reply to
@ Everybody wants a piece of mud pie. Yum Yum 11:28 AM Dec 8th, 2009 from web in reply to
Are some Buddhist magazines behind the times? article at Shambhala Sun http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=13374 Nice one! 11:16 AM Dec 8th, 2009 from web
Six Degrees of Schadenfreude blog post http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/six-degrees-of-schadenfreude/ 5:19 AM Dec 8th, 2009 from web
Viewing the West through an Indian philosophical paradigm. Sarkar’s Social Cycles http://www.metafuture.org/sarkar/prabhat.htm 11:04 PM Dec 7th, 2009 from web
Luxury Propaganda. Breaking it down. http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/luxury-propaganda/ 1:08 AM Dec 7th, 2009 from web
Really? Promoting freedom or using the Burmese situation to sell cars? I am uncomfortable with this ad. 11:21 PM Dec 6th, 2009 from web in reply to
Had a long conversation with an 8 year old. Sensible, unpretentious, honest, refreshing. We agree people look like ants from a plane window. 10:39 PM Dec 5th, 2009 from web
Forgot to pull my punches. Whoops. http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/stand-by-your-man/ 3:56 AM Dec 3rd, 2009 from web
My guest post Knowing Your Tea Kettle is up at Budding Buddhist. http://buddingbuddhist.com/?p=447 4:33 AM Dec 1st, 2009 from web
Looking forward to the blog post swap Interested to see what’s been written and topics assigned.Finished mine and got a great one for EW too 11:23 PM Nov 29th, 2009 from web
I just generated my #TweetCloud out of 3 months of my tweets. Top three words: blog, post, earthquake – http://w33.us/ymn 6:32 AM Nov 29th, 2009 from Tweet Cloud
Can’t we all just get along? Maybe. Maybe not. http://bit.ly/8h98Sj/ 1:04 AM Nov 28th, 2009 from web
Here’s a blog post in Life Teachers series http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/life-teachers-claire-culhane-and-ruth-morris/ 4:50 AM Nov 25th, 2009 from web
Here’s a blog post. http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/alternative-transportation/ 5:03 AM Nov 23rd, 2009 from web
Alternative Transportation. Might be necessary for the Dharma Wars. 5:03 AM Nov 23rd, 2009 from web
What explanation? None. http://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/james-joyce-twitter-clockwork-orange-and-the-lokavipatti-sutta/ 5:40 AM Nov 21st, 2009 from web
About 15 blog posts in the queue to deal with. Maybe I should put them together into one big Joycean psychedelic Internet word explosion. 8:38 AM Nov 18th, 2009 from web
This “game” from Natl Geographic is rather offensive http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/expedition-week-headshrinker 3:39 AM Nov 17th, 2009 from web
Twitterwish. Robo-tweets=post-dating.Incoming grouping by user.Adjust # posts on Home.My Trends (auto-search).Likely all avail but no time. 5:41 AM Nov 16th, 2009 from web
All phlegmy and throbby faced. Dang the infamous Himalayan sinusitus season. 1:57 AM Nov 12th, 2009 from web
Americans sleep the world keeps turning. I sleep the world stops.(I think) (~03:00 CST,15:30 IST) Does anybody really know what time it is? 1:55 AM Nov 12th, 2009 from web
Connect Twitter to FB. Network blogs.Widget 2 update RSS. Centralize process.DB for links library.Will be landing on Mars within the week! 3:13 AM Nov 8th, 2009 from web
Housecleaning Facebook. De-listing old groups.Tidying up the place.5 blogs to go after that.An ongoing trend.I can’t find some stuff dammit. 3:27 AM Nov 5th, 2009 from web
A not so smooth criminal broke into our house last night. We found her sleeping behind the shed with our stuff. She ran off. Strange days. 4:57 AM Nov 4th, 2009 from web
How do I delete the twits? No I don’t mean tweets. 5:43 AM Oct 30th, 2009 from web
I’m telling you right now I post mostly nonsense here as I am such a long winded individual it is not possible for me to say much in this… 4:46 AM Oct 23rd, 2009 from web
Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. Jalaluddin Rumi. 3:47 AM Oct 22nd, 2009 from web
I like the idea of having a personal orchestra to follow me around and provide a musical accompaniment. Heavy on the trombones please. 5:46 AM Oct 21st, 2009 from web
My name’s NellaLou and why are you wearing my socks? 3:25 AM Oct 21st, 2009 from web
Disappointment. What a load of crap. Tune down the expectations and the disappointments take care of themselves. 2:45 AM Oct 7th, 2009 from web
Bhutan earthquake followed by Uttarakhand earthquake at 4.8. Am collecting reports in a blog post http://bit.ly/7V1y0 on both. 4:24 AM Sep 21st, 2009 from web
Bhutan earthquake. If you felt it make a report here. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/dyfi/events/us/2009lvap/us/index.html 4:08 AM Sep 21st, 2009 from web
Bhutan earthquake Have done blog post w/ news links. http://bit.ly/7V1y0 updating ongoing. 3:50 AM Sep 21st, 2009 from web
Have done blog post w/ news links. http://bit.ly/7V1y0 updating 3:48 AM Sep 21st, 2009 from web
Earthquake in Bhutan, Tibet and north-east India. Reports say 6.3. No indication of casualties or damage yet. Was felt here in Mussoorie. 3:00 AM Sep 21st, 2009 from web
Am in Mussoorie India. Just felt an earthquake here. Probable origin Doon valley. Anyone have details? 2:51 AM Sep 21st, 2009 from web
Wondering about the earthquake. Just felt it here a moment ago. My chair started to wobble. Goin to find out what and where. 2:46 AM Sep 21st, 2009 from web
Is an apology necessary if I give someone a good slap? What if I just thought about doing it? Should I think apology too? 2:23 AM Sep 21st, 2009 from web
One could just sit here spitting out this minutia all day. Like pistacios sans nutritional content. 7:28 PM Aug 26th, 2009 from web
All closets/dressers/suitcases empty. Clothes piled neatly on the couch. Arranged by type. Then color. Organizing binge. Whaaahoooooo! 7:28 PM Aug 26th, 2009 from web
OK It’s just a walrus costume. You can’t keep a real walrus in the city limits. 6:52 PM Aug 26th, 2009 from web
Where did you put the end of that thing? It belongs in the basket next to the walrus cage. 6:33 PM Aug 26th, 2009 from web
finally got it to work after 2 more tries. sheesh. 6:43 PM Aug 25th, 2009 from web
blogging because I can’t say anything in 140 characters. 6:32 PM Aug 25th, 2009 from web
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A Mouthful of Cake-poem
Brides and grooms
shove fists full of white icing
into each other’s mouths.
The video implores,
“Eat cake.
Be sweet. Be sweet.”
When there was no bread
She said
“Eat cake.
Be sweet. Be sweet.”
Dates and sugar
Coconuts and mangos
Arrive in the boats
The sailors say
“Eat cake.
Be sweet. Be sweet.”
When this life is done with me
That may be the time to
have my cake
and eat it too.
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A dream of a boat
Noah and Ahab float away on a raft
Gulliver is in charge now
But how does it begin
The end is there
I write this poem backwards
A soup bowl of quantum level chaos
I began to wail.
“Why haven’t I been given the standard instructions regarding the life rafts?!”
I reported on deck but the captain said
“You’re on your own matey.”
Then he chuckled.
So I napped in the deck chair ‘neath the silvery moon.
A big black dog howled from the next chair.
I told him to shut up.
He whined.
I apologized.
Soft rain and laughter coming from on high.
Note: This started as a Facebook status update after listening to Patti Smith Babelogue
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Our river of dream
Awake with the leaping fish
Glint catches the eye
Beneath the settled stillness
We look for another glimpse
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I just watched the movie Across the Universe directed by Julie Taymor. Excellent. It is a love story with a serious social context drawn from the 1960s and from Beatles songs. When I started watching it there seemed to be some overwrought elements, too many visuals and tricks and so forth but as it went on the artistry of it became more evident.
I’ve always liked Julie Taymor’s work especially on Titus for which she wrote the screenplay and directed. Of course this was based on the Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus. What a vision this woman has. No wonder considering her background in theater, costuming and all other areas of drama.
I just read her bio on the Internet Movie Database and then it really struck me why her work resonates so much. Her travels to Asia, most notably India and Japan as well as her interest in puppetry from Indonesia are all things with which I am familiar.
Just wanted to make a short note here that her next production of The Tempest has gone to post-production. If it contains the high-concept artistry of her other work I can hardly wait to see it.
Check out her work some time and get a fresh view of what contemporary film can be about.
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Haikus and Tankas – 33 of them
On this blog I collect my literary work. Recently I did a post on my Buddhist blog of Haiku and Tanka poems as a response to a certain piece of Buddhist writing . While they have a specific context which you can read about in the original post they do stand alone as Haiku and Tanka poems so I am reproducing only the poems themselves here.
In fact outside of their original context they have even further meanings which surprised me as I read them. That’s one thing that always stuns me about the writing process. The original impetus can become lost or combined with other inspirations and the results resemble none of those inspirations and become something of their own. Something other than the sum of their parts.
33 Poems About Sitting Instructions
-some poems about meditation
Poets make castles
A world or the universe
Tiny paper gods
A silver dollar
Signals a helicopter
Sent for the rescue
Someone said plainly
to eff the ineffable
An interesting practice
Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable. Wiktionary
Rooms here are many
The first thing to discover-
How to lock the door
The grocery list
Does not include chips, ding-dongs
Tiramisu or Shiraz
Chasing the sardines
Minds fanning like outspread nets
Fishing in shallows
Without any choice
Not two or ten thousand things
Litter the pathway
A bird on a wire
Sings the same shrill melody
As when on a branch
My two hands are cleaned
Before preparing our food
Both help cut onions
In India the left hand is used for washing the genitals with water after using a squat toilet. The right hand is used for eating food.
The conductor shouts,
“Stop the train. We have arrived.”
The platform empty
A photo album
Bulging overstuffed pages
Is set on the shelf
There’s always a path
That veers into the forest
Leaves cover the way
Going forward or backward
Direction not to be found
A carpet of grass
And a rounded mushroom top
Look. The Cheshire Cat
An arch of the spine
Subtle bridge of antique bone
Cantilevering
Across the rushing waters
Traffic humming. Dive. Dive. Dive.
Preparing the tents
Carnival of thought goes calm
Work to be done first
Holding timelessness
In elegant folded hands
Fingertips sparking
An old leaning shed
Provides a little refuge
When propped up just so
A stake in the ground
Pounded down with diligence
To tie a wild horse
Perspective drawing
Lines, planes, angles, points all joined
The picture complete
Eyes open mouth closed
Listen to the bumblebee
Outside the window
As it taps incessantly
Wanting to be admitted
Nasal rasp and whine
Breathing with influenza
Not exactly soft
I have the flu as I am writing these poems
When planting a tree
The gardener digs a hole
And settles the roots
Stationary things
Provide a leverage point
For the fulcrum tilt
Physics is not a subject
Without any awareness
Jump up from a seat
And risk a broken body
The ceiling is low
Upstairs or downstairs
The house is inhabited
And the lights burn bright
On a humid day
Though beads of sweat sting the eyes
They remain open
Dust from open windows flies
A fan hums in the corner
Traveling around
Here and there, getting nowhere
To sit and to know
Check the ticking clock
There may be some small spaces
Lost between minutes
The photographer
Must lower the camera
To replace the film
Nothing is hidden
Compass and map are options
For other journeys
The books are in boxes
In some garage or attic
Their words all consumed
The mind’s committees
Will never agree on terms
That mean surrender
Inheritances
Are not merely on paper
But in memory
…
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