First, xkcd, on Voting Machines & Anti-Virus. Then, the other, angrier Bob, and a confrontation with emptiness.
Entries tagged as ‘zen’
Sunday Funnies
August 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Categories: history · mind · security · technology
Tagged: antivirus, btaf, diebold, politics, xkcd, zen
How to Cook Your Life
August 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Edward Espe Brown is the author of the Tassajara Bread Book, one of my favorites in the “Basics” kitchen literature category, right after my battered original copy of the Colorado Outward Bound School Cookbook. (Construction paper and cheap xeroxed pages…)
It’s very entertaining, and Brown has a great attitude about cooking and food. The book draws heavily on his experiences cooking at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, a gorgeous-looking place I’ve always wanted to visit.
Brown is featured in a documentary from 2007, How to Cook Your Life (great trailer) New York Times review.
Even though I knew this was coming out, I failed to catch it when it was in theaters, and only realized just as the DVD came out in May.
I need to get a movie night going… maybe something with a kitchen focus.
Alan Watts meets South Park
August 5, 2007 · 2 Comments
Very Cool! Trey Parker and Matt Stone produced a few short animations for some classic Alan Watts lectures.
via del.icio.us and freshminds
I was turned on to Alan Watts back in college, by one of my favorite professors, Peng-Khaun Chong. I remeber that one of the texts for one of his courses was Tao: The Watercourse Way
Highly recommended- This was the book Watts was working on when he died, I believe. co-authored/edited by his friend Al Chung-liang Huang, who did the amazing calligraphy for the book.
Categories: mind
Tagged: alanwatts, books, flash, southpark, zen
Hey.
July 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Welcome.
This is a place where I talk a bit. What I talk about is bound to change, may or may not make sense, and is offered without any warranty of usability. Some smaller parts may present a choking hazard of sorts, and so small children and narrow minds should proceed only under adult supervision.
What’s with the name? Well…
“The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.”
-Shunryu Suzuki
Probably one of my favorite zen quotes, and as clever and true a statement about reality as anyone might like. We’re just wired to try to capture, stabilize, and control our little worlds. It never works for long, and when it seems to be working, it’s often just that we’re pretending Extra Hard.
Everything changes… Just watch and you’ll see.
