the drug war is a war on liberty that cannot possibly be won without the
utter removal of all rights or at least the indefinite suspension thereof.
urine testing is the best emblem of this horrible war; it makes the police
-look like a bunch of perverted piss sniffers. it is not cost effective
+look like a bunch of perverted urine sniffers. it is not cost effective
for testing large numbers of people and it is insanely easy to fake if one
wants to anyway. we need to stop the drug war and start the war on ignorance.
this ignorance is an ignorance of the REAL scientifically determined results
but to be someone.
-- Coco Chanel
~
-In other words, can you forgive the people who have pissed
-you off in the past? If not, it seems like you're trapped
-in their piss. Or yours. Or something.
-~
If someone says 'can't', that shows you what to do.
-- John Cage
~
play in.
-- Michaela Haas, from "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the
Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West"
-
+~
+Drawing from Longchenpa, Jamgon Kongtrul explains the method of awakening in
+the Dzog-chen system, calling it the “Liberation as Ever-Perfect,” as the
+primordial buddha Samantabhadra... Liberation as Ever-Perfect does not refer
+to the liberation of a buddha that has occurred in the past, such as that of
+Buddha Sakyamuni, but to the way in which countless beings are liberated right
+now and will continue to be liberated in the future simply by realizing their
+primordial purity. The basis, the path, and the ultimate result in this
+system are all of a singular, undifferentiated nature: total, pure awareness.
+Thus, the primordial freedom that one seeks to attain by practicing the
+spiritual path is something that one already possesses. Intrinsic freedom is
+itself the path that leads to the actualization of the goal.
+ -- from the Translator's Introduction, "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One,
+ Myriad Worlds", by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
+~
+ If we realize, “I am a human being. A human being can do anything,”
+this determination, courage, and self-confidence are important sources of
+victory and success. Without will power and determination, even something
+that you might have achieved easily cannot be achieved. If you have will
+power and reasonable courage—not blind courage but courage without
+pride—even things that seemed impossible at a certain stage turn into being
+possible because of continuing effort inspired by that courage. Thus,
+determination is important.
+ How can this be developed? Not through machines, not by money, but by our
+own inner strength based on clear realization of the value of human beings, of
+human dignity. For, once we realize that a human being is much more than just
+material, much more than just money, we can feel the importance of human life,
+from which we can feel the importance of compassion and kindness.
+ Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that
+feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering,
+and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the
+same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner,
+believer or nonbeliever, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian,
+Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value
+we are all the same.
+ -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight"
+~
+Pete's Song:
+My fur reeks like
+Racoon dead six weeks.
+Feed me!
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