tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53962690664869993212012-02-15T23:31:05.461-08:00ZEN PIEBeing what is here nowdbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-4444317740718773722010-07-30T17:41:00.000-07:002010-07-30T17:41:48.552-07:00from hardcore zen todayGreat is the matter of Birth and death;
Life slips quickly by;
To waste time is a great shame;
Time waits for no one;
dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-47178986978868548662009-11-20T13:49:00.000-08:002009-11-20T14:49:06.171-08:00 click on pictureSo there was this punk rock guy from cleveland who went to japan to make monster movies became a zen monk and writes about it. I first read Hardcore Zen and thought enough of it that I ordered Zen, wrapped in Karma dipped in Chocolate. His blog is http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/ Frome there you jump to his interviews of DEVO and Nina Hartley (talking zen with a porn star-yea) dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-18101372744353048982009-10-30T09:56:00.000-07:002009-10-30T10:03:15.995-07:00If you are facing in the right direction, all you have to do is keep on walking."--Buddhist proverbIs this not an elegant thought? Are you/i/us facing in the right direction? If so does it matter that its a long way to go? Of course not; all there is is to first face the right direction then to walk. Nothing to avoid but turning back.dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-74271334884103180012009-10-30T09:50:00.000-07:002009-11-20T15:03:25.761-08:00http://thenewheretics.wordpress.com/author/thenewheretics/ Found a new buddhablog if your so inclined.I hope this link works now.dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-69947921927200898782009-10-30T09:32:00.000-07:002009-10-30T09:34:12.580-07:00This years gourd self portrait.dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-58766903127274012692009-10-13T09:40:00.001-07:002009-10-13T09:40:15.805-07:00"If you only had an hour to live and could make just one phone call, who would it be to, what would you say.... and why are you waiting?"-- Stephan Levine, Buddhist author, activist and thinkerdbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-10528484543218638482009-09-30T14:15:00.000-07:002009-09-30T14:36:10.196-07:00dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-16365535874684930172009-09-07T13:57:00.000-07:002009-09-07T21:52:42.591-07:00mediation pavillion site option 2
Another option is to place the new pavillion across the drive from the Temple porch and create a gsarden walkway connecting the two. Here's an animation dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-43470861741928506312009-09-07T12:48:00.000-07:002009-09-07T21:53:59.634-07:00Meditation Pavilion site option 1
An option is shown here for the mediatation pavilion site. First right behind the temple. Convienient but it does fill up the back-yard "outdoor room" used during gatherings. dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-61776575548512614322009-09-07T08:31:00.000-07:002009-09-09T15:48:40.250-07:00A MEDITATION ROOM FOR 75 TO 100 PEOPLEI calculated the space for between 75 up to 100 people to do meditation and I came up with a plan of 1400 to 16oo Square feet (35 or 40 feet by 40 feet). dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-91218896182347888732009-09-04T15:58:00.000-07:002009-09-04T16:28:22.888-07:00I've got some concepts here for a new meditation pavilion for the Indiana Buddhist Temple in Hoagland.
dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-11794595330928764632009-08-14T11:35:00.001-07:002009-09-07T21:49:17.916-07:00three steps to getting around to now here.Go to 12 best buddhist blogs at progressive buddhismWhich may lead you to open up Zen without jargon at ...and find a trenchent instruction on controlling your mind at Or Zazen otherwise known as "sitting in unity".dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-79015933112300544532009-08-12T10:08:00.000-07:002009-08-12T10:18:28.059-07:00after a tear a smileThere is a link to the featurete from WTWTA which screened at comic-com here on the blog FILM which also ran a trailer for Spike Jones followup Everyone Poops. Is it odd that M. Sendak and comic-con show up on a blog devoted to Zen... and pie?dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-78449218413297335262009-08-12T09:58:00.001-07:002009-08-12T09:58:11.990-07:00Am i hip and cool now that i send a blog post from my cell phone? Or is my use of those terms proof that - in fact - i'm a fogey of the old variety?dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-21365909888140645632009-08-12T08:44:00.000-07:002009-08-12T09:35:47.287-07:00Couple interesting sites encountered today.A discussion of buddhism being "secularized" or is it not a religion to begin with, here by geek buddhist. Thats from the one city blog on beliefnet. Where I couldn't resist reading 5 reasons my dharma is better than yours.Which leads to the podcast Buddhist geeks.And then Elephant Jounal, a leed consulting fim down GA way called Energy Ace, and I don't dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-27860638092871060702009-04-29T08:50:00.000-07:002009-04-29T08:52:56.238-07:00How to meditate from Dharma Webhttp://www.dharmaweb.org/index.php/Mindfulness_In_Plain_English_by_Venerable_Henepola_Gunaratanadbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-47514200515156815152009-04-20T13:27:00.000-07:002009-04-20T13:33:13.047-07:00a good place to lose time is alltop an aggregator of feeds. It leads to the moere tech savvy sites but will reward you with something interesting and as its keyword and catagory oriented its smarter than just googling a term and more likely to give yoy relevant up to date stories.my page is at my.alltop/ecolegy/dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-82842906674887710632009-02-20T12:58:00.000-08:002009-02-20T13:12:32.278-08:00The zen group was talking about facebook and such places and what sort of avatar or image one would use to represent isself - mine is the self prortrait in gourd, being a jack-o-lantern carved in 01 or 02 during the annual fall cole-waldschmidt-easterday barn party. The image came from a stencil making software program called " Me-on-a-pumpkin". Go to http://www.carvingtechnologies.com/ to see itdbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-29056645335144415832008-07-15T17:00:00.001-07:002008-07-15T17:00:59.926-07:00Colbert on Obanma converting to buddhismhttp://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=176174dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-26513757352615991722008-06-01T08:35:00.001-07:002008-06-01T08:48:01.993-07:00How do I know what I think until I can read what I wrote.Once you have mastered your perceptions, one must master ones desires. Only then will reality reveal itself to be quite different from what was expected.What you choose to think about and what you think about your self -is your self. On the other hand the core you is no-self.The interpretation you make of the history of yourself, the life story script up to now that you accept will determin if dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-3565617732331996782008-05-10T09:15:00.000-07:002008-05-10T09:45:05.553-07:00another useless collection of ones and zerosSo I started another one a blog called the c point. I'm going to post info on the cabin and woods perhaps use it as the environmental desk. Its here . When i update the senior committe map or the schedule I'll post that also. Not sure how this'll look still learning this bloggstuff.dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-45763957173939361262008-04-10T03:13:00.000-07:002008-04-10T03:29:45.866-07:00Its the end of the world as we know itAs I've said below I first heard the world ends Feb 1, 2019 a while ago in 2002 before most of the really bad shit happened. Yea bad shit happens, all the time, somewhere, to someone. As I thought of making Feb 1st a personal holiday to contemplate living in the now versus checking in on hgow we're doing with those long range plans, and to make pies. I guess thats sorta what new years day is dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-47435567365368387342008-04-06T15:37:00.001-07:002008-04-10T03:12:02.886-07:00the zen-est sci fi i knowAny sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.122007: Hey just found this viridian design site moderated by Bruce Sterling (the author of…(“Holy Fire”, “Globelhead”, “The Hacker Crackdown:Law And Disorder on the Electronic Frontier”, “Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years” (I want that book &) “A Good Old-Fashioned Future”.His blog -or google him for a dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-6836128107465037352008-04-06T15:27:00.000-07:002008-04-06T15:28:18.079-07:00the zen rant that really got me going.020708: Today’s Zen Rant; (hows that for oxymoronism)I got invited to a discussion group on the book - "A New Earth; awakening your lifes purpose" by Eckart Tolle (As Seen on Oprah).{{{ You are invited to join a free discussion study group centered around the new book by New York Times Bestseller, Eckart Tolle, author of "The Power of Now". Seen on Oprah, February 6, 2008 with Goddess of dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-41647491675658426902008-04-06T14:36:00.000-07:002008-04-06T14:56:10.514-07:00how do we deal with the future past and prescientBelow the line is a non- post from 6 years ago when things were beginning to not look particularly good for me personally. I was wondering what I'd do if I knew there was limited tomorrow. This was before shutting down the firm, being diagnosed with cancer or seriously practicing Zen. Now I realize no-one gets out alive and the future is a dead/not-dead cat-in-a-box. Most of us hardly ever dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-42922066964765032642008-03-23T20:53:00.000-07:002008-03-23T20:56:56.546-07:00Reality blog postSo I'll link to the blog I guess its called my blog cause i can't figger out how to name it. It's HERE at Reality Based Community.dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-18140108672693574322008-03-23T19:45:00.000-07:002008-03-23T20:20:12.128-07:00The PI DAY inviteSo G wanted me to post the Pi Day Invite because many email clients dont deal well with pictures and such so here it is.The gonzo zen newsletter 030508 : movies politics philosophy pie“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.” - Alan WattsGotta start that blog then ya’all can look or no. This is a long dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396269066486999321.post-90147541721118537222008-03-10T10:45:00.000-07:002008-03-10T11:19:16.751-07:00zen pieThe saddest part of a broken heart isn't the ending so much as the start.-feistfirst next steps:I begin this blog to organize my own thoughts, writing, and discoveries - anyone else may waste their time reading as they may.What is to be the topic? What I want to remember, consider and become better at. The practice of zen. Being how my life is led. Architecture, technology and movies must be dbchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14088587791279358326noreply@blogger.com0