From No to Yes

Just because you call me that, am I that?  -Buddha

Actually that's Robin Williams quoting Buddha during a recent interview about his role in the new Broadway show Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. A quick Google search doesn't turn up any such quote attributed to Buddha, but it sounds like something he'd say.



[Crankypants rant deleted]

"We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners."
— Salman Rushdie

I like to play the drums.
I think I'm getting good,
But I can handle criticism.
I'll show you what I know,
And you can tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums.

-They Might Be Giants

Drinking and Drawing

[PROCESS]
Check out photos 59, 60, 61, 144, 145 and 163 (of 165). In the orange shirt. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=332637&id=9971074051

[PRODUCT]

Drawering Hands

I am embarrassed to admit that I like Deepak Chopra. He is New Age self-help for the couch potato masses. Chopra rhymes with Oprah, and Chopra is the Oprah of mind-body healing arts, running his not insubstantial spirituality empire from (where else) southern California.

Ch-Oprah teaches meditation using simple, practical concepts. This works for me. I get it when Ch-Oprah explains how my intentions have infinite organizing power using examples a 5-year-old can understand.

I like to think I prefer more poetry, more cynicism, anger and redemption, more scathing criticism, more unbridled joy in fleeting brushes with the beautiful, more longing and mystery in my deepening acquaintance with Eastern spiritual thought.

I want a love affair. Deepak Ch-Oprah offers kindergarten set to waterfalls and wind chimes. You can almost miss the cheese, especially if you don't look at his bio pic.

I let go of resistance and accept this moment exactly as it is. 

     - February, Chopra Center 2011 Mantra Calendar