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Jun.07.2010
A Koan is not a question of informational inquiry but a question of whether you are open to whatever is. With that in mind, here’s a monday morning koan for you:
Can a lotus flower blossom without knowing why?
Tip: Expect confusion. Enjoy the clarity that follows.
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Jun.04.2010
The human body is a “treasure-trove” of vibrations (1). “After all, our hearts beat, our lungs oscillate, we shiver when we are cold, we sometimes snore, we can hear and speak because our eardrums and larynges vibrate. The light waves which permit us to see entail vibration. We move by...
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Jun.04.2010
Re: 30 Days of Intentions
The words “goal” and “intention/intent” are kin but not twins. The etymology of these words tells the story of their similarity and their difference.
Goal: “end point of a race,” from Old English word gal “obstacle, barrier,” related to the verb gælan “to hinder.” (...
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May.24.2010
There are no facts, only interpretations. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Flashback: Feb. 2010, prior to final season of Lost, I wrote the following 815 words...
Year 815 AD: Sadnalegs, a Tibetan king who was first to officially pledge support for Buddhism in Tibet, dies. An inscribed pillar commemorating...
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May.14.2010
Small Knowledge said: "Ji Zhen holds that the world was not created by anything, and Jiezi holds that it was created by something. Which is correct and which is wrong?"Comprehensive Understanding, as reported by Zhuangzi, replied: "Cocks crow and dogs bark."
That's what Zhuangzi...
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May.13.2010
At my epistemological best, I am a lucid dreamer, dreaming that I am awake.
At my epistemological worst, I am blissfully asleep, believing in a distinction between fact and fiction.
At my epistemological middle, I am the sound of one skull breathing and snoring.
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May.12.2010
Zoo hypothesis is “the untestable hypothesis that the Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial civilization whose members have left no signs of their visits, presumably because they did not wish to disturb the development of the primitive life-forms they found. Such visitors might even be...
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May.12.2010
Mindful Eating Tracker is now about 2 months old. Here's what I wrote about it in February:
Mindful eating isn’t a one-time choice – it’s a habit. Build the habit of conscious eating one mindful eating journal entry at a time. Mindful eating is, in a manner of speaking, a kind of yoga that...
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May.01.2010
An 11th century Persian mind (poet/mathematician/astronomer) wrote: I passed into the potter’s house of clay, and saw the craftsman busy at his wheel, turning out pots and jars fashioned from the heads of kings, and the feet of beggars. (1)
A 21st century mind (this blogger) echoes: You are made...
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Apr.29.2010
As of this writing moment, the Earth’s human population is estimated to be 6,841,451,100. All of these 6.8 billion people are in the same exact “now.” We are all at the exact same time: not a single one of us is either a nanosecond behind or a nanosecond ahead. We are all on time. Make no...
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Apr.28.2010
CNN reports: "S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list was released on Monday at a celebrity-chef-studded event in London, England, marking the ninth edition of the much buzzed-about (and hotly debated) catalogue of the international culinary landscape."
Alinea...
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Apr.27.2010
Reading C. Jung's newly released Red Book, I stumble upon the following pithy notion:
We create the meaning of events. The meaning is and always was artificial. We make it. Events have no meaning. The meaning of events is the way of salvation that you create. (C. Jung, Red Book, p. 239)
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Apr.25.2010
Vincent van Gogh, 1885, small studio in Antwerp: walls “pinned” with reproductions of “fanciful, peculiar, unheard of” Japanese prints. As Japanese art has begun to colour Van Gogh’s experience, he searches for the "right light."
“Last year I painted almost nothing but flowers so as to...
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Apr.24.2010
Thirst for Sun
1888: “Van Gogh was […] talking of his wish to go south, ostensibly in search of more light and colour.”
“Vincent […] cited severe Parisian winter and his indifferent health […] as reasons for his departure: ‘It appears to me to be almost impossible to work in Paris, unless you have...
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Apr.23.2010
Sarah Silverman is pattern-interruption gold: she has used merciless self-examination in public as an effective social commentary mirror. Her new book's title "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee" says it all. Silverman's mind-mirror seems to be coated with teflon-...
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About Pavel
GOAL: to help you reclaim eating moments of your life with meaning and moderation; to help you leverage self-acceptance and compassion; to help you appreciate the ordinary perfection of what is; and to help you rediscover your essential self.
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