An Object to Crave

Oh, yeah, and:

I guess you know where my head's at today. Yeesh.

Space Music

White again, a bit more positively than last week. Think expansiveness, pervading, supporting.
[photo from National Geographic]

Vajrayana and Aum Shinrikyo from Bass Communion. These made me think of Lawrence, who I worked with for a little while, it was just a part-time thing for him, bringing home some yellow for the wife and kids. He was/is a poet, but I couldn't find any of his poetry on the web. IIRC, it was kind of trippy/spacey, like the music he liked. Like this music. Lawrence, I thought of you today, and I wish you well always.

Here's some good space to look at that's more down-to-earth:[From The Tibetan Photo Project]

(un)Wellness

Vajrasattva

Compare and contrast with:
Me if I could afford beer (except it would be Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, nice and hoppy, not Bud Light).

Enough is Enough

[image swiped from here]

So this cheery press release for a book was published in a genetic engineering news site (huh?) and allegedly presents epidemiologic data that inequality is harmful to society. There's a website dedicated to this idea, too. Equality is not an unambiguous ideal.

The same Pope (Paul VI) who said "If you want peace, work for justice" also said:

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

This assessment hits very close to home for me and for many people, I think, as the world economy implodes. Many people who have always had things handed to them will continue to have things handed to them, although perhaps from fewer sources, but many others will learn or die, and others still will not have any chance to learn, their hard work will just not be enough. Of course my all-time favorite quote about equality is from Animal Farm: "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS". The rejoinder, from another famous book, would have to be "So it goes."

It doesn't have to go that way. Some very fortunate people use their gifts to help. We don't have to hoard more toys than we can play with, like the kitty above. (Remember the '80's buttons "The one who dies with the most toys wins"?) We can be mindful that enough is enough. That mindfulness can bring equality out of concerted equanimity. A worldwide economic disaster could be the reset button for global culture.