Those of you coming to Phoenix and Grenacia's game night: you are welcome to come in and visit the parrot (Garuda) and turtle (Erin ( Read more... )

gomyo shared this song/video by Reggie Watts. Warning: filthy language and total deconstruction of hip hop.


LOOSEWORLD x Waverly Films: Reggie Watts in F_CK SH_T STACK from LOOSEWORLD on Vimeo.

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Normally I have mixed feelings about invading a workplace like this. The workers are just trying to get through their day. But if you're going to do it, by all means make it fun.

I probably won't stay up long enough to see the final results. Margaret's in the lead but it's going to be close ( Read more... )

Primary elections are tomorrow. For the love of all that is good, please get out and vote for your candidates of choice (and hopefully FOR choice). Only about 1 in 10 of your fellow voters will bother to do so, so your vote will actually count more than it will in the general election.


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"Everything just as it is,
as it is, as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add."

Robert Baker Aitken, poet, peace activist, environmentalist and Zen priest, died yesterday at the age of 93. He began studying Buddhism under interesting circumstances, while he was held in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.


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As you know very well, "I'm sorry you felt hurt when I did that" is not the same thing as "I'm sorry I did that". One of those statements is an apology, and the other is not.

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I was sitting in a Buddhist temple when the tornadoes came through Thursday night. Khenpo-la showed up a little bit late: I wonder if he had been doing something for our safety. We sat down, meditated, and received teachings on the Seven Line Prayer as the wind howled outside ( Read more... )

How many of you still have the dream where it's the last day of the term, and you realize you haven't turned in several papers, or actually gone to class in weeks. No one is in their office, and then you realize you're late for the final exam, and you're in your underwear ( Read more... )