http://www.raeallen.net/blog a collection of minutiae Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:31:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do not accept anything simply Because it has been said By your teacher, Or because it has been written In your sacred book, Or because it has been Believed by many, Or because it has been Handed down by your Ancestors. Accept and live only According to what will enable You to see truth face to face. ~ Buddha http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/12/08/see-truth-face-to-face/ You do not need to contemplate your action and to purify your mind. Let your mind be boundless and without any obstruction. ~ Fa-yung (593-657) http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/12/01/boundless-mind/ Keep you in the dark You know they all pretend Keep you in the dark And so it all began Send in your skeletons Sing as their bones come marching in...again They need you buried deep The secrets that you keep are at the ready Are you ready? I'm finished making sense Done pleading ignorance That whole...defense Spinning infinity, boy The wheel is ... http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/10/09/the-pretender/ What was that song with Dave Stewart and the saxophone http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/10/09/lily-was-here/ Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. "Slay them all. God will know his own." ~ attributed to Abbot Arnold Amaury before the massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade, http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/10/09/god-will-know-his-own/ Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/10/03/336/ I have not bummed across America with only a dollar to spare, one pair of busted Levi's and a bowie knife. I have lived with thieves in Manchester. I have not padded through the Taj Mahal, barefoot, listening to the space between each footfall picking up and putting down its print against the marble floor. But I skimmed ... http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/07/26/it-aint-what-you-do-its-what-it-does-to-you/ All of you should penetrate your own minds; do not record my words. Even if principles as numerous as the sands of the Ganges are spoken of, the mind does not increase. And if nothing is said, the mind does not decrease. - Ma-tsu (709-788) http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/07/22/the-mind-does-not-decrease/ Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Henry David Thoreau http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/07/19/lives-of-quiet-desperation/ "The true practitioner of the Way completely transcends all things. Even if heaven and earth were to tumble down, I would have no misgivings. Even if all the buddhas in the ten directions were to appear before me, I would not rejoice. Even if the three hells ... http://www.raeallen.net/blog/2008/06/20/there-is-nothing-i-dislike/