What this country needs is not any particular leader, what it needs is a way to inject political action into the lifestyles of modern Americans. I think people would be more interested in politics if they felt conversations on facebook, myspace, youtube, or this site actually influenced politics and their politicians directly. It is easy to feel ( Read more... )

Oh this is fucking hilarious! I totally pissed off everyone in the buddhist discussion group with my last post I put in my journal. I am a spiritual troll.

AlanChapman
"‘As the state of fully awakenedness transcends all dualism, it must also be composed of the dualities. Thus being ignorant of the fully awakened state is actually part of ( Read more... )

My newly immigrated friends and I were talking about it this morning over coffee as the weather oscillated from drizzle to sun, to cloudy, to breezy, to hot, to cold. Portland is really cozy. It is a city of nooks, Marc said. There are all these little independent coffee shops, bars, and art galleries. It seems Portlanders spend much of the ( Read more... )

I want share with you an exert from a discussion I'm having on a different site:

vjhorn
...there seem to be at least two different approaches to awakening. One metaphor I like to describing these two different approaches goes something like this: One person (this would be more like me) is standing at the edge of a cliff looking down at the sea ( Read more... )

So this is the life I'm considering leading for a month:

• 4:00
  a.m. Rise


• 4:15
  Chanting, Zazen (meditation)
• 6:30
  Breakfast
• 8:15
  Samu (work practice)
• 12:00
  pm Lunch

So I'll be headed to Portland on the 28th of July. I'll be headed up north to Seattle later in August. If your in that area respond! I'll come visit and sleep on your couch (if its not taken by another bum). I'll also have a friend traveling with me as well from the 9th to the 20th as well. He's really cool. Names Gerald. A very gentle ( Read more... )

Our coop is throwing a full moon feast tonight, and it is also a fair well party for me. All are invited. I'm leaving the co-op the 28th of this month, next Saturday. I'm off to Maryland, and then to Oregon, and Washington. Then to Hawaii. I'll be back in Colorado in January 2009.

So many, many friends of mine are intersted in starting an eco-village. However, a large majority of you don't know eachother. So my idea: start an echo village social network thingie! Lets all meet and talk about it, or at least get to know eachother. Are our vissions compatable? Perhaps there might emerge two groups of people with diffenent ( Read more... )

As my life at Masala, my co-op is in its final hour, I find myself anxious about my travels and fearful of the process of moving out. A group of traveling musicians and singer songwriters has descended on our house and I have wallowed with them and done very little ( Read more... )

Colorado High Country. Thankfully I will be somewhere similar each weekend until I leave this lovely state.

Find a piece of artwork that represents where you'd most like to be, right now. Post in your LJ with the header, 'I wish I was here'. Invite others to do the same, should they choose.