Spirituality
Easter Ramblings
Morality has existed since we first picked fleas out of each others hides in the forests of Africa. What's going to happen to it now?
Spirituality
Travels
What's there to look at? They're poor.
I'm reading this book called "City of Joy". It's about blah blah blah some priest in Calcutta, more blah blah, and a rickshaw driver... readers have gushed about it since it's publication in the 70s – positively gushed – about how it has changed
Spirituality
Anger
You know what I get most angry about? When my anger is at peak? When I realize that the world has too much, way too much, hypocrisy and arrogance. Arrogance -- the ignorance brought on by ego. Hypocrisy – the failure of an arrogant ego. Both are rooted in an evil
Travels
A Wilde's Kind of Night: Bedouin Camp part 2
Dharma comes like a whispering wind, then lightning, it comes and renders the parts of you that wants to understand, it splinters the labyrinth – crumbling down like a deck of cards, so futile and easy and loathsome – when it comes, it's a violent silence...
Twentysomething
The Shrinking World
Much of the world is in shit, isn't it? If you had a map, and if you lit spots in the world where there's violence, I think the round ball of mud would light up like a jack-o-lantern.
Travels
Center of Attention
The experiences have been varied, but they seem to further exaggerate my identity rather than to change or alter in any significant ways. I still have a penchant for naiveté, for childish humor, and for drama. I am traveling because it is an extension of who I am now, not who I will be.
Spirituality
So the Tiger Leapt Over the Gorge
Mountains, holding up the skies, on both sides. The waters, under the crush of their own weight, hurried along below. Trees and skies and earth and water.
Travels
The stately essence of being
Tropical thunderstorms are gorgeous, especially after a day scorched by the spinning sun. It hit me as I watched the rain from the Temerloh bus station, waiting to connect to Jeremut, that I've got my travel mojo back.
Travels
Lordy there's something in the soup
Bought a tom yum soup (second of the day) and suddenly God pops into my head. He wasn't decked out in a beard today... just sort of a white blob.
Twentysomething
Gospel of Judas II
So the National Geographic's episode on the Gospel of Judas was really interesting. It starts out as a predictable 'whodunit' detective series on how the codex was discovered, bought, stolen, bought, and analyzed, with predictable re-enactments.
Travels
Kill the Buddha
One thing about traveling is that people open up on the road. More so, I think Eastern cultures besides the US/Europe are more opened spiritual discussions – spirituality is more ingrained in a person's daily life.
Travels
The Body Wants
Old man, prostrate underneath bridge, why is your daughter leashed and forced to hold out your hat for money? What happened, what is your story? She can't be more than five and already, you have taught her how to stand on her head and do backflips. Will she