“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, February 5, 2012

Groundhog

Since it is near February 2 we all watched Groundhog Day for like the 200th time. Any Buddhist loves that. You could go quite far in life just with that movie and maybe one book, perhaps Fearless Simplicity by Tsoknyi Rinpoche or Rainbow Painting by his dad Tulku Urgyen.

That inversion, that joyful inversion of the theme in the manic depressive Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations, wow. Words do not add up to it. Now that's one of those things that brings tears to my eyes. Then it turns into jazz! Pimp my Nietzsche!

1 comment:

Ted Geier said...

Own it.
Ramis underrated.