January 2011
171 posts
“Outwardly, I am one apple among many. Inwardly, I am the Tree.”
– Alan Watts
December 2010
316 posts
“Yes, there is a conspiracy, indeed there are a great number of conspiracies, all...”
– Alan Moore (via starduststarless) OMG TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH TRUTH (via motherofserpents)
Completely disagree. First off, its fucking insulting to assume I would feel comfortable that sadistic psychopaths are in control because of some misplaced insecurity. No, Alan Moore, you’re the insecure one....
Looks like I will be taking four advanced courses this upcoming semester that implicate a purely reductionist and consequently sterile outlook on the human psyche.. cheers -_-
“The harsh divisions of spirit and nature, mind and body, subject and object,...”
– Alan Watts, Nature, Man, and Woman
“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of...”
– ~ John O’Donohue (via deccar) (via dakinigoddess) (via aristela)
“Alas that artless innocence
cannot appreciate itself or its own worth!
that...”
– Goethe, Faust: Part I
“It makes no difference if good and evil mean one thing for the primitive and...”
– Carl Jung, Psychological Types
“It is no accident that the world outside television has concentrated...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
“As more diverse people occupy the central control systems, the systems do not...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
“How different is the way the pleasures of the mind
Transport us from book to...”
– Goethe, Faust: Part I
“Deep in our heart Care quickly makes her nest,
there she engenders secret...”
– Goethe, Faust: Part I
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and...”
– William Blake (via lalaladylove)
“How can a person still have any hopes
who is addicted to what’s...”
– Goethe, Faust: Part I
Calm Abiding Meditation →
Do this type of meditation before sleep and sustain it while falling asleep.. Practice lucidity.
“I died from minerality and became vegetable;
And From vegetativeness I died and...”
– (via theelegantuniverse)
“But may, true sons of heaven, you delight
in beauty’s living richness!...”
– Goethe, Faust: Prologue
“That which may be looked for, but proves invisible, is called the Distant. That...”
– Tao Te Ching, Verse 14, Frederic Henry Balfour translation
(via bluejaysings)
101 Zen Stories →
“I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe...”
– Buddha’s Zen
“The dramatic programs, featuring jealousy, hatred, desire, fear, humiliation,...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
“Television encourages separation: people from community, people from each other,...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Read the quote please.. don’t fear wall of text
Zen Story: Your Light May Go Out
A student of Tendai, a philosophical school of Buddhism, came to the Zen abode of Gasan as a pupil. When he was departing a few years later, Gasan warned him: “Studying the truth speculatively is useful as a way of collecting preaching material. But remember that unless you meditate constantly your light of truth may go out.”
“Whenever you engage with the media, any media, you begin to take things on...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Zen Story: The Thief Who Became a Disciple
One evening as Shichiri Kojun was reciting sutras a thief with a sharp sword entered, demanding either his money or his life.
Shichiri told him: “Do not disturb me. You can find the money in that drawer.” Then he resumed his recitation.
A little while afterwards he stopped and called: “Don’t take it all. I need some to pay taxes with tomorrow.”
The intruder...
“Much of the nervousness in the world today in both individual and national life...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
“Fear qualifies as a bona fide pseudo-experience. It can fool viewers into...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
“Television suppresses and replaces creative human imagery, encourages mass...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
