Just finished reading A Journey to Ladakh' by Andrew Harvey. It's a great book, a gripping and insightful exploration of Tibetan Buddhism and Tantra in its (near) natural habit.
Such a shame then to find over twenty years later that Harvey is stuck in the quagmire of such Pre/Trans’ fallacies as animal spirituality. This interview with him here is hilarious, for all the wrong reasons.
It's odd how people can get themselves into such confusion.
The integral blogsphere is awash with talk about the Integral Spiritual Center (ISC). This is Ken Wilber's new big thing and I think it's an important step forward in the development of all things integral.
However, as someone who manages a large website for a living, I'm dismayed to see the entire ISC website is built with Flash. This means the website is not fully accessible.
Many blind, partially sighted and disabled people use 'assistive technologies' that will not work with Flash. Thus ISC is closed to a section of society soley because the web developers couldn't be fucking arsed to build the site in HTML.
This is not integral. It's shite.
However, as someone who manages a large website for a living, I'm dismayed to see the entire ISC website is built with Flash. This means the website is not fully accessible.
Many blind, partially sighted and disabled people use 'assistive technologies' that will not work with Flash. Thus ISC is closed to a section of society soley because the web developers couldn't be fucking arsed to build the site in HTML.
This is not integral. It's shite.
Drinking a strong cup of freshly brewed coffee minutes before sitting down to meditation is not a good idea.
I'm reading Abraham Maslow's Religions, Values and Peak Experiences (50p from the Amnesty International second-hand bookshop in Camden, what a bargain!).
Something that really strikes home is just how much Ken Wilber is indebted to Maslow. Just about everything I've read in the book so far is taken forward and expanded upon by Wilber in one way or another.
Something that really strikes home is just how much Ken Wilber is indebted to Maslow. Just about everything I've read in the book so far is taken forward and expanded upon by Wilber in one way or another.
My wife's friend has a 12 year old who, apparently, loves punk rock. So my wife's going to see her pal tomorrow and asks me if I'd like to do the youngster a present.
So here, after a happy couple of hours drinking Czech beer and fooling about with the CD burner, is the full tracklisting:
1. Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning
2. 999 - Homicide
3. Black Flag - Rise Above
4. Crass - Shaved Women
5. The Damned - New Rose
6. The Heartbreakers - Born to Lose
7. Les Thugs - Moon over Marin
8. Electric Eels - So Agitated
9. L7 - Fast and Frightening
10. The Lurkers - Ain't got a Clue
11. Mudhoney - Touch me I'm Sick
12. Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
13. MDC - John Wayne was a Nazi
14. The Saints - Know your Product
15. Public Image Ltd - Public Image
16. Menace - GLC
17. Penetration - Don't Dictate
18. Rezillos - Can't stand my Baby
19. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
20. The Ruts - H Eyes
21. Snuff - I think we're Alone Now
22. The Stranglers - Hanging Around
23. Adam and the Antz - Zerox
24. Devo - Joko Homo
25. Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks
26. The Transplants - Tall Cans in the Air
Gosh, when I was 12...no, you don't want to know what I was listening to! The tracklisting was difficult, so much great stuff to get on one small CD. I was very tempted to add some pre-punk classics (the boy has to know the history) such as the Velvets, MC5, Stooges etc and some post-punk stuff, eg: Gang of Four, Pop Group...but that can wait for another day.
So here, after a happy couple of hours drinking Czech beer and fooling about with the CD burner, is the full tracklisting:
1. Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning
2. 999 - Homicide
3. Black Flag - Rise Above
4. Crass - Shaved Women
5. The Damned - New Rose
6. The Heartbreakers - Born to Lose
7. Les Thugs - Moon over Marin
8. Electric Eels - So Agitated
9. L7 - Fast and Frightening
10. The Lurkers - Ain't got a Clue
11. Mudhoney - Touch me I'm Sick
12. Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
13. MDC - John Wayne was a Nazi
14. The Saints - Know your Product
15. Public Image Ltd - Public Image
16. Menace - GLC
17. Penetration - Don't Dictate
18. Rezillos - Can't stand my Baby
19. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
20. The Ruts - H Eyes
21. Snuff - I think we're Alone Now
22. The Stranglers - Hanging Around
23. Adam and the Antz - Zerox
24. Devo - Joko Homo
25. Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks
26. The Transplants - Tall Cans in the Air
Gosh, when I was 12...no, you don't want to know what I was listening to! The tracklisting was difficult, so much great stuff to get on one small CD. I was very tempted to add some pre-punk classics (the boy has to know the history) such as the Velvets, MC5, Stooges etc and some post-punk stuff, eg: Gang of Four, Pop Group...but that can wait for another day.
Kindness, patience, compassion. My hearts wish is to embody these characteristics, to live them fully in my daily live.
Kindness to my self, kindness to others
Patience with my self, patience with others
Compassion for my self, compassion for others
Kindness to my self, kindness to others
Patience with my self, patience with others
Compassion for my self, compassion for others
Inspired by the excellent ' Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha' by Daniel Ingram, I've moved my mediation practice up a level since the start of June. I'm now managing two sessions of twenty minutes a day.
This afternoon I noticed a real difference in my sitting and experienced a relaxed awareness at a depth I've not encountered in the past. Ingram's book is pithy and goal-orientated which makes a nice change from other, more vague, mediation teachings I've come across in the past. I like it how he basically says (to paraphrase) 'if you want this then do this, otherwise forget it'.
This afternoon I noticed a real difference in my sitting and experienced a relaxed awareness at a depth I've not encountered in the past. Ingram's book is pithy and goal-orientated which makes a nice change from other, more vague, mediation teachings I've come across in the past. I like it how he basically says (to paraphrase) 'if you want this then do this, otherwise forget it'.
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