Friday, May 1, 2009

fleur de sel................
Sumac.. Used in Cooking. YUms
amidst, the sounds and floating specks, like clouds of rolled dust . your vision barely comes through the fog.
At some point Miller's made a solid pilsner. At some point, Budweiser was likely a full bodied lager.

Ever Eat this!?

how about him?

do you think shes hot?
courtesy of a twitter from capetown

Thursday, April 30, 2009

On a weekday night, i head out to the local small ristorante with a so called middle eastern flare. But hey, in this part of Japan Town, more Little Tokyo where else you will you find a felafel quick. Apparently, they try not to make it greasy either. But what do two green kids from Colorado know right? Yes those Lebanese, won't stand for this type. But hey, the Beer on certain days are like three dollars, and a pitcher, well about thrice that. A small one, but if your planning to eat yourself then just a pitcher may just be. Anyways, I got to talking .. oh yeah , I tried a very dark beer. Scottish Ale. Not bad, man that stuff is heavy, I can feel its strength. No wonder, those men are huge, up their in that cold regions of the northern hemisphere. It's hot, where I am from. And Hell, this city is cooking and polluting non-stop. That's why, I wanted to introduce my type of food down here, and she said I should have it in LA, like this area or something, you can't really get authentic Indian (South) or Thai food down here. No I am not going to cook Thai food, that was a venture asked by a person who is a patron at the bar, and happens to own a chain of Thai restaurants. Man, bartenders got a lot to say, if your listening. And if you got an ear like mine, that wants all information, (as long as its credible, and I am slightly buzzed) - I'll remember it for later. Before I just journal information. Now I can write it here, and come back when I want to refresh my mind. That is my concept of the blog. For my brain. Thoughts ( I do not wish to keep inside but somewhere to be referenced- wheres the gadget or gizmo for that!?_)

But yes, she thought my idea was interesting. I think more and more people are getting to be entrepreneurs. Not the students in classrooms. The people from other jobs, places they get inspired from, traveling, and seeing, or trying and expermenting while doing something else. But these guys had the monies , where they went to school was all I needed to know. Occidental, is not a place for broke kids from east la- like the ones my roomie are tutoring (they will never see ..), lets say. But yeah- ..I met two girls, french speaking- one was milky white, and brilliantly hot. This guy from the USC band brought them over from the fraternity- (He played the biggest drum- I forgot what it was called) , I was talking to her while I was drunk, I don't remember myself looking great at that time, lack of exercise. But she told me she was half indian; father was from bombay, well give it up to him and her mother. They were not having it though. I told them in French I knew some French. And they were all laughin with each other, as I talked to them on the dance floor. They were amused, but said they liked each other, I think I might have said thats ok, but I got the hint, and I dont remember what else I did- I mean of course, I left them alone, but the rest of the night, I had some drinks. those days. i have gone through a major purification system since then. Slipping sometimes. But recently, I have tried crazy greens like turnips, parsley, spinach in my juices. These are the ones , vegetables that help fight off skin disease like sun damage, acne, skin spots, discoloration, zits, dark spots, bruises, scars ,... but it has to be taken in major doses. That makes sense. To heal you have to stay still, so the doctor says. Actually it depends on the damage and your capacity. But , its true mostly, energy needs to reorganize inside you and focus- if you are an accomplished yogi you can do this no matter what. And I have read about this, and witnessed a yogi . A very famous one, that probably at least 20 million alive, and well, know about. Her abilities- by those who admire, may not be disposed to word it scientifically, but I will say, it is the true form of this spiritual science , in the highest manner ,of the greatest caliber in its age. If you wish to find the elements, well you have to be your own scientist and test it. But you better do it before, theres no presence available to research. Time does not stop. Kala, or MahaKala, conquers everything. He , the primordial truth, Shiva, the experience of ancient oneness, with the immutable witness of the molecules that permute space and time, pervasive, and everlasting , manifestation of energies, and beings, and constant flux, .. that ancient one takes into it everything, but she the force that moves across the surface of brahman , the eternal lake of being , she is the action, behind the inaction of time . The movement , that stills, while circling the path of the wheel of dharma. She picks out what she wants, and moves across it, like a Swan, gliding in the Mansovar lake, of your mind. That grace, in the form of a woman ( the true form- the mother of creation) within ones heart awakens , to express her. But you must be given the ability to want to express her, how to express it. This is all a science, and a method. It must be applied, like healthy doses of greens to remove bad skin, it takes energy focused in a direction to conquer something. That is what I believe these fruits do, juicing them and taking it slowly, by extraction- all that helps destroy bacteria and filaments of impurities in the skin. The highest action or state of this purification is the mind ,because the subtlest is beyond the gross or physical. the casual is behind that. And behind the inner frames or bodies or layers of being is the soul. Not to say man is multiple beings. He is one truth within, but there are makeups to the personality, the physical body, and the casual body, which is released on time of death, but is bound by the karma of the doer, as long as he remains an individual link, and not able to surpass Kala. , Death will devour him. But if grace is there, if the eternal mother sheds grace, by effort on ones own part , his effort, then she will devour him. That is why the great Mother is called the eater of MahaKala. The feminine form, MahaKali, which remains every smiling beseechingly., but warning of danger too, this is a fierce path, given the sweet nectar of her love, you can cross the dangerous damages your frail ill-used and ill treated frame can take, it will act as an armour, a strength or faith to reach the goal. Without that armor, one will fall.

One of the biggest problems in Japanese monasteries now is that, the head monk is worried- that the youth , and the younger monks - there are no more enlightened monks left in Japan. At least they care. Only in India is this issue addressed, faithfully- why monks are fed, in many places, why in North India, and South as you go, there are dharmasalas , places of residence for wandering monks. This faithful, stature of a man who renounces everything, whether he be fraud or not, is given that grace of the common man. And the grace of the divine comes, that is why in that land, the land of tyaga bhumi the land of renounciation , in india countless through the ages, god descends in form for man. And many men benefit, and get enlightened, and lead others through small vessels like rivers, and man is felt and left with a brief peace.

It is the grace, of all those who do spiritual practices, who are kind in their eyes and words, who give without knowing back, and are content with that which they have, and those striving to reach the ultimate grace, disbanding from all the world- these souls, their vibrations stop the earth from sinking, it is not that science with its axis, that tells the stars, it is the powerful vibrations felt throughout even the cosmos of those who are in tune with divine understanding, and feeling that which is all- Love . The divine energy which flows from these vibrations, is that strong current of Love, which in its unadulterated, unitiarian state ,(free of people amongst each other), that is the strand which ties all the cosmos, and every particle of movement, together.
A gross understanding is the woman who lifted a car to get her child out. She moved it up by the side. This is about a half tonne of pressure. Only a serious bodybuilder could do that, and he would have to be Polish, or something, at like 300 lbs easily, or more . This woman did it. I mean she's a small example. Look at the Master.
heard my moms voice; like sunlight entering the sky...
i want to write a bhajan for chotanikhara Amma

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down

Review: Basically..
a film about partygoers in their mid 20s in los angeles.
The movie left me with a dried out feeling. I first enjoyed the beginning, some comical anecdotes to human behavior and the ever- frequent topic of discussion of the two sexes and their quest in the sexual plethora of senses and interaction. Something a sociologist is very eager to write about, and many to offer their opinions through various medias; and the number of books concerning this subject ever popular in the social mainstream. With that said, the movie followed along the said guidelines like some of the other teenage type or more really younger adult - .. I recall Road Trip; had some really funny scenes , that even at my age I still chuckle under the belt at - so to speak- like when the skinny white guy is high and imagines the dog telling him ' tell that bitch to make some blueberry pancakes." While he's smoking in the backyard of a house . The movie itself isn't spectacular, if you want that - a recent film- Spring, Summer, Autumn, Fall" - Spectacular, eye-gripping scenes, slow prose, almost like poetry the movie is awfully sublime. & Others like Eel, Takashi Miike at his most introspective of a snapshot of living. or Taste of Tea, a cute, and very charming movie, full of the wonderful aspects of this genre. Anyways- I thought this movie , would have more of a charm to showing the sexuality between man and women, the chemistry so often socialized and contextualized. It did, but yet then it went off into a coke drama- and left me with a dried out feeling. Like the feeling when you did do too much alcohol..(for me last night- 3 pitchers at the place beneath our apartments- one Stone Levitation & another- light Pilsner. my head is still tipsy)... No the movie had solid points- but alittle too much meth or lab based drug talk, which is cool I guess- you never really hear it open anyways. so All in all, guess it aint so bad after all. Just don't expect anything less.