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
~
regarded as anti-dharma or anti-path. Cosmic wakefulness takes place.
-- Chögyam Trungpa's in the foreword to "The Rain of Wisdom: The Essence of
the Ocean of True Meaning"
+~
+Scrutinize Apperances
+
+No matter what our mind makes appear as an object of one of our six
+collections of consciousness—sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile or
+bodily sensations, or mental objects or events—we thoroughly scrutinize its
+mode of appearance. Our mind is making it appear as though its existence were
+established by virtue of itself, empowered by some truly and inherently
+existent self-nature—and not by virtue simply of mental labeling
+establishing its existence as what can be labeled "this" or "that"
+from this side. We thoroughly scrutinize this mode of appearance and the mode
+of existence it implies. There does appear to be something solidly there, not
+existing as what it is by virtue simply of mental labeling, but by virtue of
+itself, independently of anything else. But, by reminding ourselves that it
+does not exist as it appears to exist—by being mindful that its existence
+and identity are not established through its own power—we automatically
+reconfirm and become even stronger in our conviction in its bare mode of
+existence. In other words, as the text [the First Panchen Lama’s A Root
+Text for the Precious Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra] says, "[You
+experience] their bare mode of existence dawning in an exposed, resplendent
+manner."
+ -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition
+ of Mahamudra"
+~
+The dakini principle must not be oversimplified, as it carries many levels of
+meaning. On an outer level, accomplished female practitioners were called
+dakinis.... But ultimately, though she appears in female form, a dakini
+defies gender definitions. “To really meet the dakini, you have to go
+beyond duality,” Khandro Rinpoche teaches, referring to an essential
+understanding in Vajrayana that the absolute reality cannot be grasped
+intellectually. The Tibetan word for dakini, khandro, means “sky-goer” or
+“space-dancer,” which indicates that these ethereal awakened ones have
+left the confinements of solid earth and have the vastness of open space to
+play in.
+ -- Michaela Haas, from "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the
+ Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West"
+
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