.: Above The Aether :.

Justine and I started a 6 week introduction to Zen meditation course at the Houston Zen Center last week.
We spent the first half of the class learning a little about the history and practice of Zen.  After that, we practiced mediation - both seated and walking.
We performed the seated meditation while sitting on top of [...]

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Very interesting short videos on ideas, consciousness, creativity, and the arts. Worth watching.
Happy Friday, everyone.
- Dave

George Carlin died yesterday of heart failure.  He was 71 years old, but had the mouth of a 18 year old sailor.
Famous for his 7 words you can’t say on TV.  Well, since I’m paying for bandwidth and hosting here, I can say anything I want.  So, this is for you George:
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, [...]

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- Dave

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This short flash movie reminds me of a spreading plague or war.  Funny that it’s religion.
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I started reading The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, last week. It’s been a while since I purposefully slowed down my reading and forced myself to savor a book because I liked it so much. The book follows Eustace Conway, a man who walked into the woods as a young man [...]

From Discover Magazine:
Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own [...]

Striving to devolve our population one field trip at a time, the Creationist Museum, located in Petersberg, Kentucky presents “the facts” in a very quotable way.  Here’s a quote from their “About Us” page.
We’ll begin the Museum experience by showing that “facts” don’t speak for themselves (click here for a proposed drawing of this exhibit). [...]

Here is an interesting blog post from Zen Habits. Not sure I agree with everything on the list, but a lot of them make sense. I happen to clash with large gaping sections, especially “lose weight” and “rise early.”  Wasn’t Buddha fat…er jolly?
Read the post here.
-Dave