Epi from Battle Instincts Crew/Boondock Pirates

We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition.

If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

- Allan Watts

Religion is not just some dry intellectual idea but rather your basic philosophy of life: you hear a teaching that makes sense to you, find through experience that it relates positively with your psychological makeup, get a real taste of it through practice, and adopt it as your spiritual path. That’s the right way to enter the spiritual path.

- Lama Yeshe

You know what I think about all these politics and world leaders?  I see them…all these old people in the House, Senate, top officials, etc.  I see them as ignorant controlling  parents, you know the one who tell their kids that Santa and the tooth fairy are real.  Parents that hide the truth about sex and pretend cuss words don’t exist. They want you to believe everything they say is the damn hard truth.

Of course they’re ignorant, and don’t realize we’ll find out sooner or later….

Parents are ignorant, Politicians are

stupid.

It is said, one thousand days of practice for hard discipline, ten thousand days of practice for refinement.  - Legendary Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

What a few good years could do to you!

2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOmPADrRgMo

2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAh9WKF-x8