Unfortunately hiphop was hijacked by record labels in its nascent stage, becoming a weapon of mental colonization to the community that gave it birth, and disgracing the genre in the eyes of others.
Now people on both sides of the hiphop fence are rarely exposed to the 'true' hiphop.
So what...
Yes. I need (want?) a muse, as the ol' blank page has been working me over lately.
I'm looking for someone to help draw out the story, to read my (bad) writing and coax more (worse?) writing out of me where and when the agony of the empty pen is less... interactive.
This requires the ability...
Never late lame poetry hour
Falling rocks drumming canyon
Supreme vow revealing all facets
As perfect rainbow body vaseborn retainers of the essential beinghood
Flash of light, empty sky full of clouds like banners
Void praises resounding all keys avowed
Diamond, adamantine riding void winds...
Today is Winter Solstice in the Northern hemisphere. This day the sun is lowest in the horizon throughout the day and sets earliest. How did our vedic and agamic forebears mark such days?
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Jai Jai Shiva Shambho - Album: World Hindu Chants - YouTube
had to share this... so beautiful. Ordinarily I am not so fond of bhajans rendered in a more Western style, but this one is (to me) exquisite in both its melodies and vocative feeling.
Hello and goodbye
So I've decided that with my recent workload, the smartest thing I can do is either:
1. Severely restrict my time on RF (and other timewasting pursuits)
2. Cut out such pursuits entirely until the workload has lessened
I'll be doing one of the two, and in either case, my...
So, circa 2,000 BC, it's socially acceptable to, while wandering vast empty tracts, hallucinate the presence of a supreme being who wants you to slice off your foreskin - and that of your male slaves and camels and whatnot, and attempt to sacrifice your offspring to him.
Or was it?
Of course...
So, I've been planning a series of articles on tantra and the role that desire (raga) and intercourse (maithuna), real or virtualized, play in tantra - something that has been much misunderstood in the West and maligned in the East.
I'm curious to know what is the opinion of the dharma DIR...
It occurred to me that prayer in Islam would be disrupted by an arctic climate. As I understand that, the Muslim five-fold daily prayer is based on the position of the sun. This is not determinable in polar night or the midnight sun period in the arctic circle.
Say, for sake of example, that a...
So I've noticed recently that when I meet Jews, I feel cold towards them. I attribute this to my dislike of Jewish religion, culture and Zionism.
There's no active dislike just ... emotional apathy. I generally feel no desire to associate with them or engage more than is necessary.
In theory...
I'm trying to figure out a better way to classify various traditions than based on the geographical area they emerged from or settled in.
What are important classifications in a religion/tradition?
Examples:
Animistic
Polytheistic
Panentheistic
Monotheistic
Granted, that many of these can...
So I had a dream this morning that left me absolutely stunned upon waking.
Usually dreams for me have little sense of continuity or realism - there being little ‘constant’ either in environment or my memories/sense of continuity within the dream, but this one was downright epic. The...
For lames, by a lame.
Please enjoy my eclectic blend of fail. Also lose.
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Bloodsport Sneaker Pimps - YouTube
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Nick Drake Things Behind the Sun - YouTube
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Fates Warning Part A Pleasant Shade of Gray XII - YouTube
Didn't know where to put this, so here it is.
I was reflecting on something today, and had what I felt to be an insight which I am now sharing with you.
Since I began to talk - around age 2 to 8 - I called my mother "mommy" or "mama". This word refers to her as the primary object, the chief...
Distress gnaws away
At the root of self awareness
Like a worm enwombed by moisture
Born of an impossible process
Which never happened
And so our self-guardian applies the balm
That soothes all inimical structures
Destructing them into the raw material
Of liberation
By that which we fall, we...
The bodhisattva is the essential nature-being of Gratitude.
As such, the Bodhisattva is perpetually engaged in unending service, performing the terrible austerity of being willfully born, by means of mahavrata, self-shackled to the wheels of letters encircling the spokes of prana. What wonder...
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White Tara Mantra (108 Repetitions) - YouTube
Felt moved to share this - makes me cry to listen to this sometimes. The opening 45~ seconds are the cheesiest synth you've ever heard - resist the urge to turn it off, or skip ahead - it'll be worth it.