To the question of Janaka as to how freedom can be achieved, the answer given by Astavakra is simple: ‘know the Self as Pure Consciousness, the unaffected witness of the phenomenal world, and you will be free’. In reality the Self is always free; freedom is not attained, but simply realized and discovered. The impediment to self-realization and ( Read more... )

Thursday, April 02, 2009
Dave is in Greece, Sarah, Jake, Amelia and Leila are with me for the evening. We had pizza and told many stories. Sarah won the diamond.

"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy" (Lionel Trilling).

My old friend Reg Oldershaw died yesterday -Tuesday. I saw him Sunday I could tell he was near the end of the line. He still had his humor but he was occasionally talking to people that were not in the room. He was 85.
It is snowing this April fools day morning, very small flakes.
The rec-room is almost finished. I am looking at LCD projectors.

The world-appearance is simply the ever-changing form of the never-changing reality ( Read more... )

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The fireplace is in, the floor is granite and I am putting a mural on the wall now ( Read more... )

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Rainy this day, I am still having neck/ shoulder pain I caught from a chill in the night.
My cement work has slowed up a bit. The floor is ¾ done.

Here is a very good site:
http://www.cosmicharmony.com/Discrse/OneMany.htm

I received my order of 4 dvd’s of ‘Wind in the willows,’ I watched them at Reg Oldershaws place all afternoon. I am now waiting for Jerry’s shipment of pipe tobacco to arrive. Fall is in the air early this year. My neck is still aching so I stopped the cement work for a while.
I am writing a short story ' The Count and the Witch'.