Leo's right

Stop buying unnecessary things.

Toss half your stuff, learn contentedness.

Reduce half again.

List 4 essential things in your life,

stop doing non-essential things.

Do these essentials first each day, clear distractions

focus on each moment.

Let go of attachment to doing, having more.

Fall in love with less.

ahh

Glorious

the last day of school! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Return to Innocence - Enigma

Still a great song...

Ami's Mommies

Ben Di and I met up with Becca and another Kevin because Ami's moms were in town tonight. We ate vegetarian japanese food in Berkeley. It was great! I loved the food and the people.

John Mayer does Timberlake

wholeness

A Poem

Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

-- Ryokan

The Paradox Of Our Age

We have bigger houses but smaller families;

more conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees but less sense;

more knowledge but less judgment;

more experts, but more problems;

more medicines but less healthiness.

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,

but have trouble in crossing the street to meet our new neighbour.

We built more computers to hold more copies than ever,

But have less real communication;

We have become long on quantity,

but short on quality.

These are times of fast foods but slow digestion;

Tall mean but short characters;

Steep profits but shallow relationships.

It’s a time when there is much in the window

But nothing in the room.

H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama.

LFC

The Shins - Pink Bullets

One of the fundamental points

of the spiritual journey is to persevere along the path. Though one's meditation may be good one day and and not so good the next, like changes in scenery, essentially it is not the experiences, good or bad which count so much, but rather that when you persevere, the real practice rubs off on you and comes through both good and bad. Good and bad are simply apparations, just as there may be good or bad weather, yet the sky is always unchanging. If you persevere and have that sky like attitude of spaciousness, without being perturbed by emotions and experiences, you will develop stability and the real profoundness of meditation will take effect. You will find that gradually and almost unnoticed, your attitude begins to change. You do not hold on to things as solidly as before, or grasp at them so strongly, and though crisis will still happen, you can handle them a bit better with more humor and ease. You will even be able to laugh at difficulties a little, since there is more space between you and them, and you are freer of yourself. Things become less solid, slightly ridiculous, and you become more lighthearted.

more

Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides

Sit

Chill

In a world of stress, hard work, sandwiches at the desk instead of lunch hours, telephones with 128-page user manuals, remote controls stacking up by the dozen (so it's even easier to lose them), and technology generally going mad - we all need a space to chill out.

So we made a mix of music to help us chill, and thought it would be fun to hear on the radio. We left out the bits of radio that wouldn’t help – pointless gossip, DJ waffle, screaming competition winners – and that left us lots more space for tunes. The only people you’ll hear on Chill are people who love music and want to chill out with it as much as you do, so they’ll play the tunes and save the conversation for emails or our friends page at myspace.com/chillradio.