Although we despise animals

we secretly envy their peace with time
in our obsession with controlling it
we have also become it's slaves
and chased away the good spirits

maybe that is the way it is
they like an occasional walk-about
to let the owner play and grow
and come back when missed
in the longest love affair
between the beast and the angel
between being and nothingness

Sometimes one picture is many words

other times one word is many pictures
but most of the times one picture is one word
it's name

The questions of existential nature

can be the ultimate, but often ignored
since being is forgetting
the non-being

Rhythm is temporal harmony

harmony is spatial rhythm

Long repeated things get compacted

and hidden from normal attention
and become habits

being is the longest habit

Just a line segment

that's all we get from life

Balance survives

imbalance evolves

The earth is a flower

we are the spores

Proof makes a genius

from a crackpot

When emotion is lost to intelligence

being collapses

When you are alone

you are in God's presence

When simplicity meets complexity

beauty is born

When why doesn't

why not does

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)

Love is always born

Go your way now,
All shall be well.
Leave the day now
All shall be well.
Go into the darkness
Where the spark is,
Real and right and true.

...

Love is born
With a dark and troubled face;
When hope is dead
And in the most unlikely place;
Love is born;
Love is always born.

(Michael Leunig)

Living make time, fucking make space.

Imagination is the prelude to creation

Life is like an addiction

it feeds on itsef

Balance is the middle touch

Puppet reaches enlightenment

when it pulls it's own strings

Male is infertile female

female is infertile male

Eat, shit, fuck, reproduce,

work hard, make the rich richer,
fuck the world,
until it fucks you back.

When shit sinks, you got trouble,

when lovers hide, you got miracle.

When there was change, there was time.

True slave is given

true master is hidden

Once a mere survivor

then the bully of the planet
now reduced to mere number
chasing greed and ignorance
consuming own mother to death
with nowhere else to go
but within

By works the votary doth rise to faith,

And saintship is the ceasing from all works.

(Krishna, Bhagavadgita)

Memory is like a being

it is born out of action
it lives and expresses
and it dies and leaves a clue
when it loses integrity

You shout, they don't listen,

gotta whisper.

To be, unbe, or just slumber,

that's the question.

Mouth, nose

anus, genitals

Nothingness is a drum in tune

intent to respond to slightest touch
with infinite depth

Balance survives, imbalance evolves

Religion shown in an act of proud display

To win good entertainment, worship, fame,
Such ---say I--- is of Rajas, rash and vain,

Religion followed by a witless will
To torture self, or come at power to hurt
Another, ---'tis of Tamas, dark and ill.

(Krishna, Bhagavadgita)

Not I in them!

By Me the whole vast universe of things
Is spread abroad; ---by Me, the Unmanifest!
In Me are all existences contained;
Not I in them!

(Krishna, Bhagavadgita)

The devout soul

Four sorts of mortals know me: he who weeps,
Arjuna! and the man who yearns to know;
And he who toils to help; and he who sits
Certain of me, enlightened.
Of these four,
O prince of India! highest, nearest, best
That last is, the devout soul, wise, intent
Upon "The One." Dear, above all, am I
To him, and he is dearest unto me!

(Krishna, Bhagavadgita)

The ever-holy tree

Men call the Aswattha, ---the Banyan-tree,---
Which hath its boughs beneath, its roots above, ---
The ever-holy tree. Yea! for it's leaves
Are green and waving hymns which whisper Truth!
Who knows the Aswattha, knows Veda, and all.

(Krishna, Bhagavadgita, tr E.Arnold)

Being is touching

Gas, liquid, solid

vapor, water, ice
time, space, ?
gravity, mass, black hole
algebra, number theory, geometry
individual, family, species
light, charge, ?
intention, consciousness, memory
birth, life, death

+, 0, -

Female, Child, Male
White, Gray, Black
Hot, Mild, Cold
Red, Orange, Yellow
Left, Center, Right
Birth, Life, Death

May global warming unite humanity

Future >= Present/Past

Insanity is new sanity

sanity is old insanity

To be or not to be, that's the question

to be and not to be, that's the answer

Let it be

do what you want to do
be what you want to be

(Beatles and the lyrics of a TV ad!)

Keepers keep away

Be like water

follow the path of least resistance

Passion knows the destination

wisdom knows the way

Less is more

depth is breadth

In the beginning there was the word

and the word was;
A

Knowledge is the beginning

Knowledge is the beginning of action
and action the completion of knowledge (Wang Yang Ming)

0, 1, infinity

Virgin Mary, Christ, God
Holy Ghost, Son, Father
Nothing, Something, Everything
Nothingness, Being, Time

Don't tame the beast

let it roam free to heart's content

Zero is the mother of all mothers

If you can be nothing, you can be everything

Nothing is impossible, nothingness is possible

Slow down and precipitate disharmony

Language is algebra, grammar is geometry

Consciousness is the mother of invention

Intention is the mother of invention,
consciousness is the mother of intention.

Space is harmony, time is melody

Relative is in absolute, absolute is in relative