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Reblogged from Musings by Samsaran
"We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation."
- Robert Adams (via samsaranmusing)
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Reblogged from Musings by Samsaran
"Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine."
- Shunryu Suzuki (via samsaranmusing)
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Reblogged from Space And Stuff, IDK
scobeecentral: STS-51-L Challenger - January 28th 1986 Commander Dick Scobee, 46 Pilot Mike Smith, 40 Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka, 39 Mission Specialist Judy Resnik, 36 Mission Specialist Ron McNair, 35 Payload Specialist Greg Jarvis, 41 Payload Specialist Christa McAuliffe, 37

scobeecentral:

STS-51-L Challenger - January 28th 1986

Commander Dick Scobee, 46

Pilot Mike Smith, 40

Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka, 39

Mission Specialist Judy Resnik, 36

Mission Specialist Ron McNair, 35

Payload Specialist Greg Jarvis, 41

Payload Specialist Christa McAuliffe, 37

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"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
- Douglas Adams
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"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there"
- Robert M. Pirsig
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"If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"
- Dōgen
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"But when you’re in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you’re guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It’s very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That’s when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow."
- George Carlin
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"

I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can
get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple
witness of your thought processes.

It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you.
Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you
judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this
is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once
the gap is there, you are in for a great suprise, that you are not the mind, that
you are the witness, A watcher.

And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as
you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start
disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for
the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

"
- Osho
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Reblogged from All About Human Supremacy
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is seeking to conduct seismic surveying project along the Central Coast of California. The project entails the firing underwater air cannons, every 15 seconds, day and night, for 17 days. Each air gun blast is equivalent to a bomb exploding. By PG&E’s own admission, these tests have the potential to harm or kill thousands of whales, dolphins and other marine mammals. Here is the estimated number of animals likely to be affected: Fin whale ……………………..…………….205** Humpback whale ……………………..….258** Blue whale ……………………..…………..116** Minke whale ……………………..……………7 Short Beaked Dolphin …………………..920 Long Beaked dolphin ……………………..54 Small beaked whale ……………………....65 Harbor porpoise ……………………....2,328 Dall’s porpoise ……………………..…….412 Pacific white-sided dolphin …………….98 Risso’s dolphin ……………………..………54 Northern right whale dolphin ………….41 Bottlenose dolphin ……………………..…13 Sperm whale ……………………..…………..1 Harbor seal ……………………..…………..48 California sea lion …………………….2,489 Pacific sea otter ……………………..……352** ** denotes federally endangered species Go to http://seismic.surfrider.org/ for more info.

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is seeking to conduct seismic surveying project along the Central Coast of California. The project entails the firing underwater air cannons, every 15 seconds, day and night, for 17 days. Each air gun blast is equivalent to a bomb exploding.

By PG&E’s own admission, these tests have the potential to harm or kill thousands of whales, dolphins and other marine mammals.


Here is the estimated number of animals likely to be affected:

Fin whale ……………………..…………….205**
Humpback whale ……………………..….258**
Blue whale ……………………..…………..116**
Minke whale ……………………..……………7
Short Beaked Dolphin …………………..920
Long Beaked dolphin ……………………..54
Small beaked whale ……………………....65
Harbor porpoise ……………………....2,328
Dall’s porpoise ……………………..…….412
Pacific white-sided dolphin …………….98
Risso’s dolphin ……………………..………54
Northern right whale dolphin ………….41
Bottlenose dolphin ……………………..…13
Sperm whale ……………………..…………..1
Harbor seal ……………………..…………..48
California sea lion …………………….2,489
Pacific sea otter ……………………..……352**

** denotes federally endangered species

Go to http://seismic.surfrider.org/ for more info.
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"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
- Alan Wilson Watts
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"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
- Meister Eckhart
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
- Bil Keane
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"Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it."
- Osho
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"Experience life in all possible ways —
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don’t be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become."
- Osho
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"

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

"
- Rumi