Archive for December, 2008
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Merely Beggars
“We are all sojourners on the path of death. Everyone has to die, therefore, in this state of life whether one is male or female, high or low, king or subject, rich or poor, learned or foolish-everyone can make this very rare human form of life succes…
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Gosh Leaves Comfort Zone
So today is the last day at home for a while as we leave tomorrow to Asheville, North Carolina, then Atlanta, Georgia, then onto Alachua, Florida and the Gulf Coast of Florida.
While Vidya is quite excited, I am less so as I like my little rut and am comfortable with its miseries so having to […]
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Missing Krsna, Missing Ourself
Yesterday we were speaking on our own experiences of the process of self-realization. To many, self-realization is supposed to be an all-bliss, all the time hoedown-go and check your local chain bookstore in the “new age” section if you don’t believe …
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Welcome to Our Temple
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
How Santa Claus Killed Christmas
Christmas used to be about the birth of Jesus, now it has devolved into a pagan holiday of orgiastic consumerism. One tool used by the hedonists to achieve this was Santa Claus.
Santa Claus is alledgedly based on Saint Nick, but how far he has strayed. Here is who Saint Nick really was:
“The true story of […]
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
New Year’s Eve Party
We will be having our usual New Year’s Eve Party again this year.
This is a children compatible party where all activities are suitable for children.
This is open to everyone and we don’t send out personal invitations so consider yourself invited. Bring a friend or three. Tell others about it you think may be interested.
It is […]
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Drawing of Srila Prabhupada For Sale
For sale:
Original Pastel Drawing of Srila Prabhupada
This pastel (chalk) drawing is on grey pastel art paper and is done in black, white, shades of grey, and sepia (or sanguine). Srila Prabhupada is seated, his left hand on his silver-tipped cane, and is looking to his right side. He wears a thick garland. His sweater is […]
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Food is different…
“Food is different. We need to understand that people are willing to die for their right to farm, to grow what they want, to feed their families and communities. While few are inclined to make the ultimate sacrifice, we need to think about how importa…
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
“Krishna Returning With The Herd” by Sant Surdas
Mohan comes herding the cows,
crown of peacock feathers on his head,
garland of forest flowers on his chest,
in his hand a wooden staff,
his body wrapped in cow-dust.
A band around his waist
and from his feet the sound of anklets
there amidst his cow-boy friends
Shyam comes. His yellow garments standing out
like lightning amidst the clouds.
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Taming the Wild Ox
” In Buddhist scripture from ancient times sages have compared the human mind with a wild ox. The ox, the most useful beast of burden in those days, had to be captured, tethered and broken to a harness of sorts, a long slow process which eventually made available to man the great power of the […]
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
The real reason for the global economic downturn?
From Prabhupada’s purport to Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 Chapter 15 Verse 21″It is also stated here that in the Vaikun?t?ha planets the goddesses of fortune are faultless. Generally the goddess of fortune does not remain steadily in one place. Her nam…
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
VeganforKrsna
Back in the late 70s before meeting the devotees I had adopted a vegan diet out of ethical considerations. It just seemed like the right thing to do if one was serious about the treatment of animals. I had also recently spent some time working on a farm where I was appalled at what I saw. In London I lived with several families of vegans and worked in their vegan cafe. The food was great! It was inspired by its own type of bhakti.
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
The Herdshare
(Photo from ISCOWP)”Lovers of raw milk, ethical animal treatment and sustainable local industry are coming together to build on a concept called Herdshare. A herdshare is a co-operative of people who buy a herd of cows and then pay a manager to care fo…
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Metaphor, Metaphor! Wherefore Art Thou, Metaphor?
By Christopher H. Ramey, Ph.D.
Historically, metaphors and figurative language have been ignored as a serious topic of study in psychology and philosophy, exiled to the land of rhetoricians or literary analysts. In fact, even in those realms (normally housed in a different part of a college campus than where the ‘scientists’ are) so-called ‘proper’ […]
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Cutting
We have been reading, from the First Canto of the Bhagavatam, the heavy sauce that the saintly Vidura laid on his elder brother Dhrtarastra, as Dhrtarastra was rotting away the last moments of his life in the palace of his Pandava cousins.The straight…