The Two Russian Food Groups

The Two Russian Food Groups
Originally uploaded by Anantya.

"I love this country... its the PEOPLE who drive me nuts!"
-Lenin


"I love Lenin... its what they did with his ideals that have driven them nuts!"
-D Michlin S.


"Most people are below average"
-M. Michlin

Easy

Easy
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*gets tired of howling at the moon,...praying to the wind,....waiting for the UN to get its shit together...*

Stands up on the sofa and shouts: "That's IT!. I've fuck'n HAD it!!". "I hereby COMMAND all of human existance to STOP generating unnecessary suffering for each other and the planet!".

"Let them eat TOFU!".

Sits back down.

*readjusts his footy-pajamas and tophat....exhales a biiiiig sigh.....mumbles self-satisfied to himself "There, that ought to do it."*

One!

Comuning
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My senses discovered the infinite in everything one foggy autumn evening in rural Minnesota over a quarter century ago, and then among the Banyan monkied coastline forest of timeless Goa, and sometime later still in Hawaii, as the lustral beams of moonlight danced over the steep cliffs of Hale Akua; then later still, spirited away at the feet of most loving brave company, to the soothing melody of Saleem's giggling icaro, and the dry rustling rhythm of Bolinus' endless breeze.

For I, like so many and yet far too few, have been privileged to be initiated into the sacred realm of the entheogens, sacramental plant teachers of countless generations of the family of humankind; have been vouchsafed a fleeting glimpse behind Our Lady Gaia's veil; have imbibed the amrta of Indra, the ambrosia of the Olympian gods, Demeter's potion; have for brief blessed instants gazed into Lord Shiva's blazing third eye.

Having been graced by these and other holy visions, my life has been transformed and enriched beyond measure.... I have become an initiate to the sacred Mysteries of antiquity, what the Greeks called an epoptes, one who has seen the holy.

As unworthy as any for such an avalanche of Grace,... as unprepared as most to behold, in breathless awe, beauty of such an extreme nature at once almost as alien as it is anciently familiar. Brought down to the very knees of being even as exhaulted in the fathomless bliss of celestial return.

Washed up now (and always happily again and again), like only so much grateful cosmic floatsam, I come running into the clearing where you stand....come rushing up to you desparate to share it all in an instant, pointing wildly back towards the shaman's secret valley and stammering to you with mad pleading eyes wet with the mischevious urgency of ultimate import,....clutching at your cloak, panting... "something!"....."SOMEthing!!"....."SOMETHING!!!!"

Two....

Finding
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Three....

Longing
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The Vision Splended

The Vision Splended
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The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me,
and I asked them how they dared so roundly to
assert that God spoke to them; and whether they
did not think at the time that they would be mis-
understood, & so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd: "I saw no God, nor heard any, in a
finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd
the infinite in everything..."



William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)

STEAL THIS QUOTE!

Sri Chomsky
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http://www.chomsky.info/

Noam Chomsky Quotes
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.
Noam Chomsky

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam Chomsky

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam Chomsky

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam Chomsky

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Noam Chomsky

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Noam Chomsky

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Noam Chomsky

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky

Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
Noam Chomsky

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.
Noam Chomsky

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Noam Chomsky

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
Noam Chomsky

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
Noam Chomsky

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Noam Chomsky

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Noam Chomsky

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.
Noam Chomsky

Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.
Noam Chomsky

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Noam Chomsky

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
Noam Chomsky

Greatful She-va

Greatful Shiva
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Dasha and i were going through a tough time over the past several weeks....not something easy to put our fingers on exactly. In the general irritability that was shadowing us I have been very "short" (too quick to react with critical energy)or somehow just standing in some unrelenting demand for her to be more conscious, more vigilant and she has been unusually "peculiar" (too quick to jump to emotional/hysterical reaction)or kind of sleepily at the wheel of her own conscious presence.

Well the tapas (heat) of compassionately mining the core of our breakdowns for which way t-h-r-o-u-g-h drove me back into some great classical transcendental wisdom (so dear to my own awakening and personal history). What a blessing to feel which lineages of wisdom really "work" for you, no? These teaching/teachers/transmissions just ZAPPED me with clarity, bliss, insight, gratitude, etc....like really a "low level re-formating" for the ego and shot in the arm for the spiritual heart.


Love Wins!
(...again)
;)

http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/
http://www.poonja.com/
http://www.gangaji.org

Ego-I

Ego-I
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Only A Fool Will Fail To Cultivate The Relationship To The Beloved. Likewise, Only A Fool Will Fail To Cultivate The human Well-being and The Spiritual, Transcendental, and Divine Realization Of his or her any partner in intimate embrace. And This Is Also True: The ego (or the self-Contracted individual) Is Just Such A Fool!

The emotional-sexual ego Constantly Hunts For an other. The ego-"I" (or self-Contraction) Hunts (or Seeks) an other (Even all others and The Total Objective Cosmos) In Order To Be Gratified, Consoled, and Protected. The Compulsive Hunting (or Search) For an other Is Generated By The Feelings Of Un-Happiness, Emptiness, and Separateness That Possess and Characterize the self-Contracted being.

Once an other Is Found, the ego-"I" Clings To the other, At First pleasurably, and Then Aggressively. The ego-"I" Depends On the other For Happiness, and, Over time, the ego-"I" Makes Greater and Greater Demands On the other For Fulfillment Of itself (In all of its desires). Often, In time, the other Becomes Depressed and Exhausted By This Demand (and Thus Leaves, or Dies). Just As Likely, the ego-"I" Discovers, Over time, That the other Cannot or Will Not Satisfy The Absolute Demand For attention and Consolation. In That Case, the ego-"I" Feels Betrayed, and the ego-"I" Begins The Strategy Of Punishing, Rejecting, and Abandoning the other,

Every conditionally Manifested being Has (In time) Often Been The Proposed Victim Of This Strategy Of Separate and Separative selves. Even More, Until The Heart Gives Way To Divine Love-Bliss, every conditionally living being Is The Original Genius and Grand Performer Of This Strategy Of Separate and Separative selves. It Is The Strategy Of Narcissus, and It Is The Dreadful Work Of all conditionally living beings who Are Not Awake To The Truth Beyond the ego-"I".

-Adi Da Samraj