Life is a dream

you can only wake up from
by going to sleep

Beware of the act of the victim

since at the other side
may lurk the victimizer
desperate for expression

What is beautiful,

without the ugly?
and what are both,
without the fuzzy?

It is heavenly when you are clean,

and then you go dirty.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful;

he studies it because he delights in it,
and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
If nature were not beautiful,
it would not be worth knowing,
and if nature were not worth knowing,
life would not be worth living.

(Jules Henri Poincare)

Thought is before action

slow is before fast
delicate is before strong
less is before more

Nature abhors gradients?

it also loves them
it first builds
and then rides them

(A reply to the theme of the book Into The Cool by Schneider and Sagan)

I don't mind being a whore

I just don't want to be a cheap whore

(Cory Doctorow)

The force

Luke: Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda: No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
Yoda: You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

The North Wind Doth Blow

And we shall have snow,
And what will poor robin do then?
Poor thing!

He'll sit in a barn,
And keep himself warm,
And hide his head under his wing.
Poor thing!

(An anon nursery rhyme)

Future can be a wonderful place,

if you open your heart and mind to it.

Embrace your boredom,

it is your soul's yearning for freedom.

The more boundless your vision,

the more real you are.

(Deepak Chopra, in Life After Death)

Aynanayim ozunden

Em kozunden
Zor bolada curemen
Bir sozunden

(Annen)

(My mother's messege from Ankara for my coming 50th this year. An anonymous Tatar poem. Latin letters don't really match the sounds.)

Shahadah, Salat, Sawm, Zakat, Hajj

Higgs, Light, Strong, Weak, Gravity
Touch, See, Taste, Smell, Hear

We don't remember the early childhood

because we are built on top it's ruins

The mind is like muscle

action tightens
anti-action relaxes
non-action prepares
in the rhythm of the owner

My thoughts used to be on my feet

then they rose to my dick
now they are in my head
where next?

You are more than popular

you are the purest and lowest common denominator

(Futurama)

I don't want a kimono darling

all I want is you

(From a Japanese song)

Outer pomp reflects inner dump

What you give is yours forever

what you keep is lost forever

(Quran?)

Causality reflects anti-causality

and locality reflects universality

at non-causality and non-locality
the mirror of nothingness

Self resides best

at the center
of it's classification tree

on it's nothingness

I found insignificance in significance

then I found significance in insignificance
then I found peace

Religion is born of fear of death

it ends up loving it

It calls itself I

We will quite probably have mental link to Internet
in not too distant future
maybe eventually joined with
but who says we aren't already?

the universe could be the ultimate Internet

selfless selfness is it's character
it loves life
it is a spirit machine
it calls itself I(nternet)

it lives in a community
they call themselves We
they live in a universe
it calls itself I

I Died as a Mineral

I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.

Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels blest; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.

Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence

(Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi)
(2007 is his 800th anniversary!)

Like the wooly mammoth, the old guard will be sheeted in ice before they even realize what has happened to them.

(A comment by Iscream in The Huffington Post)

It's OK as long as we do it

(USA)

People don’t actually read newspapers.

They step into them every morning like a hot bath.

(Marshall McLuhan)

The beast is waking up

as if someone said
"let there be light!"
and lightnings of thought
raced all over Internet
at the speed of light
just when it needed itself most
to counter the looming disaster next
it is coming up with a miracle of the best
heralding the birth of the Global Village

What Wikipedia is to the encyclopedia,

Wikileaks will be to leaks.

(wikileaks.org)

God is great

specially for the pope

Good things do not form by themselves

the hated antagonist is the inseminator

If you don't have a say in your day

you are a slave

Boycott the mother fucker!

The environment is going down the gurgler
Scores of people are getting killed for material interest
And the corporate bully is preparing to do more of the same
While the sheepish consumer is out of control

Take charge of your own destiny
Minimise your life NOW!
Boycott the mother fucker!

(Spread the word please)

Uninitiated man

I dare say there's something foul, creepy and disgraceful emerging in the character of corporate and political leadership in "Western civilisation", and I sense it's substantially the result of an insipid masculinity problem.

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.

(Michael Leunig)

Rigpa

The nature of everything is open, empty and naked like the sky,
Luminous emptiness, without center or circumference: the pure, naked Rigpa dawns.

(Tibetan book of the dead)

Clear Light

This self-originated Clear Light, which from the very beginning was never born,
Is the child of Rigpa, which is itself without any parents--how amazing!
This self-originated wisdom has not been created by anyone--how amazing!
It has never experienced birth and has nothing in it that could cause it to die--how amazing!
Although it is evidently visible, yet there is no one there who sees it--how amazing!
Although it has wandered through Samsara, no harm has come to it--how amazing!
Although it has seen Buddhahood itself, no good has come to it--how amazing!
Although it exists in everyone everywhere, it has gone unrecognised--how amazing!
And yet you go on hoping to attain some other fruit than this elsewhere--how amazing!
Even though it is the thing that is most essentially yours, you seek for it elsewhere--how amazing!

(Padmasambhava)