High school senior Allen Lee sat down with his creative writing class on Monday and penned an essay that so disturbed his teacher, school administrators and police that he was charged with disorderly conduct ( Read more... )

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The more realistic interpretation about life is that you borrow it from the universe. In this I mean that you own your life in a limited period of time before you must give it back and have it turned into other lives, which will in turn be borrowed. Since you are borrowing your life, you are also borrowing your possessions and it is futile to amass ( Read more... )

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“The basic kind of Zen practice is called zazen (sitting Zen), and in zazen we attain Samadhi. In this state, the activity of consciousness is stopped and we cease to be aware of time, space, and causation. The mode of existence which thus makes its appearance may at first sight seem to be nothing more than mere being, or existence. However, if ( Read more... )

A local paper, The Oregonian, had an interesting article today. One tidbit I was tickled to see was this: "The best thing that happened to me in my education was being in a segregated school," he (Charles Hopson, Franklin High’s principal) says. The building was ancient and the roof leaked, but through fourth grade he was taught from an African ( Read more... )

The saying is "Power, Speed, Endurance, Suffering and Salvation"At Gym Jones we train elite athletes and professionals. For some of these individuals fitness can mean the difference between life and death. The objective is genuine fitness, not the appearance of fitness. The methods we use are based on old ideas, new research, creativity, anecdotal ( Read more... )

Politics used to be a serious business in America. The Founding Fathers showed fervor similar to - perhaps stronger than - modern third-party candidates. Men were sincere in their beliefs and sought an honest direction towards what they thought was best for their country. Can this be said of our working politicians today ( Read more... )

TRAGIC, O GODDESS, UPON MUCH REFLECTION,
is not ill ability nor ill achievement - no!
In such things, striving to will one’s conception
alone gives one meaning: the spirit of “make it so.”

Mankind seeks power, one way or the other;
inside us it burns: all partake - none are pardoned ( Read more... )

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