my mind begins to hum...

[the fire elf]

i think he'd be skinnier if he walked more

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

Like physicists, biologists have frequently
addressed questions related to free will.
One of the most heated debates in biology
is that of "nature versus nurture",
concerning the relative importance of genetics and biology
as compared to culture and environment in human behavior.
The view of most researchers
is that many human behaviors can be explained
in terms of humans' brains, genes, and evolutionary histories.
This raises the fear
that such attribution makes it impossible
to hold others responsible for their actions.

Fate is past karma, free-will is present karma.
Both are really one, that is, karma,
though they may differ in the matter of time.
There can be no conflict when they are really one.

Fate, as I told you, is the resultant of the past exercise of your free-will.
By exercising your free-will in the past,
you brought on the resultant fate.
By exercising your free-will in the present,
I want you to wipe out your past record if it hurts you,
or to add to it if you find it enjoyable.
In any case, whether for acquiring more happiness
or for reducing misery,
you have to exercise your free-will in the present.

[the fire elf]

THERE'S A MINDFULNESS, WHICH IS ESSENTIAL
TO FURTHER CONSCIOUSNESS UNFOLDMENT.

IT'S A MINDFULNESS WHICH ANY MANTRA
ACTS AS A FOUNDATION FOR.

MINDFULNESS IS WHAT ANY AUTHENTIC
GURU MUST STRIVE TO CULTIVATE.



THE NATURE OF THE ASPIRATIONS
SET THE COURSE OF THE SPIRITUAL ASPIRANT



IN EACH MOMENT,
DO YOU DWELL IN THE POTENTIAL
OF REACHED ASPIRATION?



PYRAMID BUILDERS
MADE EVIDENT THEIR RESPECT
FOR HUMAN FORM



IT IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE VEHICLE
OF AWARENESS



YET LOOK HOW MUCH THEY HAVE THRASHED ABOUT
IN WHAT THEY CALL 2000 YEARS

[mayavin]

cayenne pepper makes a nice spice...
but you don't eat it all by itself


"they know not what they've done?"

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

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[the fire elf]

______________________

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

callin' that collection:
"healed on a three day bus ride"

[mayavin]

POISED RELAXATION IS A BETTER CONDUCTOR OF ENERGY

THE WOUNDS WERE A WAKE UP CALL
FOR MYSELF, AMONG OTHERS

I STRIVE TO ALIGN MYSELF

I AM PROMOTED TO JUNK YARD DOG

KRISNA SAY'S NO TRESPASSING

PLANTS HAVE AURAS

PEOPLE FROM INDIA
SAID I HAVE THE FASTEST GROWING HAIR IN THE WEST

I LOVE AUM EXPRESSING THROUGH ME

Aum Namah ÅšivÄ

[mayavin]

Na is the Lord's concealing grace,
Ma is the world,
Åši stands for Åšiva,
Va is His revealing grace,
Ya is the soul.

[the fire elf]

yet it's about allowing the "desire to transcend"
take root long enough to devoped thought form
and go do your bidding

without needing linguistic comprehension of such an act

[mayavin]

efficacy

what conundrums must i face
tell me when future friends
shall no longer weild them

they flutter and twirl
caring little for their context;
universe placing thisway and that

this universe glows
to show itself
for our benefit

your moment is yours to use as you see fit

the cost of losing sight of your own humanity
is deer, indeed

why would you garnish a house
with something to be worn?

[the fire elf]

Putin warned
that Russia would take steps
in response to a U.S. missile shield
that would be deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic.

"Russia is not an enemy," Bush said,
seeking
not to inflame a heated exchange of rhetoric
between Washington and Moscow.
"There needs to be
no military response
because we're not at war with Russia. ...
Russia is not a threat.
Nor is the missile defense we're proposing
a threat to Russia."

to be perfectly honest
i have no idea what you intend
to do with yourself

but i do wonder...

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

POLITICKS

[the fire elf]

_____________________

[mayavin]

______________EINSTEIN USED CHALK

The record industry is the part of the music industry
that earns profit by selling sound recordings of music.
In the early years of the phonograph in the late 19th century,
the music industry was dominated by the publishers of sheet music.

[the fire elf]

Serendipity is the effect by which
one accidentally discovers something fortunate,
especially while looking for something else entirely.
The word derives from an old Persian fairy tale
and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754
in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann
(not the same man as the famed American educator)
an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read,

"I once read a silly fairy tale,
called The Three Princes of Serendip:
as their highnesses travelled,
they were always making discoveries,
by accidents and sagacity,
of things which they were not in quest of:
for instance,
one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye
had travelled the same road lately,
because the grass was eaten only on the left side,
where it was worse than on the right
—now do you understand serendipity?
One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity

(for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for,
comes under this description)

was of my Lord Shaftsbury,
who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's,
found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde,
by the respect with which her mother treated her at table."

[mayavin]

Reality in everyday usage means
"the state of things as they actually exist."
The term reality,
in its widest sense,
includes everything that is,
whether it is observable, comprehensible,
or apparently self-contradictory by science, philosophy,
or any other system of analysis.
Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness,
whereas existence is often restricted to being
(compare with nature).

[the fire elf]

According to the less realist trends in philosophy,
such as postmodernism/post-structuralism,
truth is subjective.

...referred to the "serendipity pattern"
as the fairly common experience
of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum
which becomes the occasion
for developing a new theory
or for extending an existing theory.

[mayavin]

and yet that doesn't make fallacy any more real

When two or more individuals agree
upon the interpretation and experience of a particular event,
a consensus about an event and its experience
begins to be formed.
This being common to a few individuals or a larger group,
then becomes the 'truth'
as seen and agreed upon
by a certain set of people
— the consensus reality.

and yet that doesn't make fallacy any more real

[the fire elf]

On a much broader and more subjective level,
the private experiences, curiosity, inquiry, and selectivity
involved in the personal interpretation of an event
shapes reality as seen by one and only one individual
and hence is called phenomenological.
This form of reality might be common to others as well,
but at times could also be so unique to oneself
as to be never experienced or agreed upon
by any one else.
Much of the kind of experience deemed spiritual
occurs on this level of reality.
From a phenomenological perspective,
reality is that which is phenomenally real
and unreality is nonexistent.

[mayavin]

The ancient Pythagoreans and Platonists used the term
to mean "the cosmic soul". According to Neo-Platonic cosmology,
the nous emanates from the One. Anaxagoras wrote:

All other things partake in a portion of everything,
while Nous is infinite and self-ruled,
and is mixed with nothing, but is alone, itself by itself.
For if it were not by itself, but were mixed with anything else,
it would partake in all things if it were mixed with any;
for in everything there is a portion of everything,
as has been said by me in what goes before,
and the things mixed with it would hinder it,
so that it would have power over nothing
in the same way that it has now being alone by itself.
For it is the thinnest of all things and the purest,
and it has all knowledge about everything
and the greatest strength;
and Nous has power over all things,
both greater and smaller, that have soul.