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perspective.
Despite our grasping, the whole of his life pulsed and seeped through our fingers.
From the heart of him. Moving outwards. Finding the floor of the resuscitation room. Calling out in a thick scattered confusion of dark, red, shoeprints. Moving away from him in clear plastic spirals. Spattering out into a sucking, flaccid bag that, much [...]
Dharma
dharma dan gets a spine.»Dharma Dan’s (aka Daniel Ingram) book: Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha : An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book is now available to buy in paperback on Amazon.
Dan has already provided the book in electronic form for free download (pdf), and now offers it in paperback for those who would like a slightly more portable [...]
off topic
penetrating your mind.»Neurophilosopy has a penetrating interview with Heather Perry, a 37 year old who practiced self-trepanation (removing a piece of bone from her skull ) in order to improve her mental energy and clarity.
I injected myself with a local anaesthetic and then slashed a big T-shaped incision in my scalp, right down to the bone. I [...]
wordwax
the 416 to Strathfield.»8 PM and getting dark. Sitting outside a café beside the Queen Victoria building in Sydney, I’m skewered by caffeine buzz and exhaustion.
In a store across the street, a huge plasma screen TV shows slow motion grabs of helicopter gun ships firing at a tank. Apart from the glowing TV it is a grey, drab [...]
