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"You know, we're on the ocean shelf here in La Jolla because we're West of the 5, we could just sink into the ocean. And there hasn't been an earthquake here since 1857, so they're expecting one. So if you don't hear from me again, you know what happened."--my mom.

1 Cycle:
-Cubic mile of mustard seeds
-every 100 years a bird comes and takes 1 mustard seed away
-when all mustard seeds are gone cycle is complete

80 cycles = 1 aeon
84 aeons until moksa

---belief of ancient, pre-Buddhism religion
--Buddhism notes

It's been a good week, despite everything. On Monday the man working at Whole Foods told me he liked the ( Read more... )

In Buddhism class (le cours de Bouddhisme en français) we were talking about the ancient pre-Buddhism religions. We were learning about how in Sanskrit, the word itself it the purest form of the object, purer than any concrete form of the object itself. So, every word has power; the word is the reality. Therefore, saying a phrase in Sanskrit can ( Read more... )

Ohhh back to school, back to school.

Right now I am sitting in my little alcove trying to decide how to hang my Viking ship mobile and waste enough time until all my friends get here on Thursday. The window beside me is open so the air can come through, thoroughly Southern and balmy with cicadas loud enough to hear over my music. I'm wearing shorts ( Read more... )

Je suis à Paris! C'est difficile à écrire avec cette ordinateur, parce qu'il y a beaucoup de lettres qui sont dans les mauvaises endroits, mais la majorité sont la même comme normal--très confondu ( Read more... )

Home.


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The wind is so strong today, you can hear it from inside buildings. Four trees have already blown over and they had to reroute all the buses and one of my friends had a tree crash through the window in his math class today. I feel like I could be blown away and no one would notice, or think it odd. It's surreal for some reason, all this wind. It ( Read more... )

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I am up in the Texas Connection. The top floor hallway between Bostock and Perkins, where I can look out one side and see the sunset over the trees and look out the other and see neo-Gothic architecture, slightly pink-tinted. I think I'll take more pictures of the campus, especially when I come back and the gardens will be in bloom.

But sometimes I ( Read more... )