Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Monday, December 25, 2006
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Monday, December 05, 2005
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Friday, December 02, 2005
Thursday, December 01, 2005
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. [Einstein]
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Go, and never darken my towels again! [Groucho]

The Libertine
--Aphra Behn
A thousand martyrs I have made,
All sacrificed to my desire,
A thousand beauties have betray’d
That languish in resistless fire:
The untamed heart to hand I brought,
And fix’d the wild and wand’ring thought.
I never vow’d nor sigh’d in vain,
But both, tho’ false, were well received;
The fair are pleased to give us pain,
And what they wish is soon believed:
And tho’ I talk’d of wounds and smart,
Love’s pleasures only touch’d my heart.
Alone the glory and the spoil
I always laughing bore away;
The triumphs without pain or toil,
Without the hell the heaven of joy;
And while I thus at random rove
Despise the fools that whine for love.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it! [Kevin, Time Bandits]

Funeral Blues
--W. H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Monday, November 28, 2005
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Hang in there!

I hate you
I hate the way you breathe
I hate the way you move
I hate the way you look
I hate your bad breath
Your farts
Your uncleanliness
Your wanting to live
To exist
To be near me
I hate you
Because you smell
You booze
You fuck
You shit
You burp
You flatulate
You pig out
You exist
I hate you
I hate the way you write
The way you speak
The way you walk
Run
Jump
Lie
Sit
Shit
I HATE YOUUUUUUUUUU
Friday, November 25, 2005
Share the anger, share the angst

The mind of the past is ungraspable;
the mind of the future is ungraspable;
the mind of the present is ungraspable.--Diamond Sutra
Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die
--Basho
Opening bell
echoes from the canyon walls --
raindrops on the river.
The sounds of rocks bouncing off rocks;
the shadows of trees traced on trees

Finally out of reach -
No bondage, no dependency.
How calm the ocean,
Towering the void
--Tessho's death poem
My legacy -
What will it be?
Flowers in spring,
The cuckoo in summer,
And the crimson maples
Of autumn ...
--Ryokan
I sit, still.
The canyon river chants,
moving mountains.
Everything
just as it is,
as it is,
as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.

The sermon spun on the still point:
dropping off eternity, picking up time;
letting go of self, awakened to Mind.
dropping off eternity, picking up time;
letting go of self, awakened to Mind.
To what shall I compare this life of ours?
Even before I can say
it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop
it is no more.
Even before I can say
it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop
it is no more.
Loving old priceless things,
I've scorned those seeking
Truth outside themselves:
Here, on the tip of the nose.
I've scorned those seeking
Truth outside themselves:
Here, on the tip of the nose.
Fathomed at last!
Ocean's dried. Void burst.
Without an obstacle in sight,
It's everywhere!
--Joho
Ocean's dried. Void burst.
Without an obstacle in sight,
It's everywhere!
--Joho
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns
To weight on your heart,
Your whole life will be one
Perennial good season.
--The Golden Age of Zen




























