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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.  (Mark Twain) |
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Monday, 30. August 2010 |
| Remember Mr. Oizo’s Flat Beat with the super-cool yellow puppet Flat Eric?
Mr. Oizo is the artist name of French electro house music producer and film director Quentin Dupieux. Flat Eric later reappeared in this Flat Beat music video. |
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Tuesday, 24. August 2010 |
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Hippopotamus’ are not only cute, but also courageous beyond belief.
Although young hippos look so sweet, they are well known as pretty aggressive animals. They are often considered one of the most dangerous large animals in Africa. In fact, hippos are one of the most aggressive creatures in the world. They are known to attack humans on land, as well as boats with little or no provocation. Despite its stocky shape and short legs, it can easily outrun a human. Hippos have been clocked at 30 km/h (19 mph) over short distances.
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| Now, see what happens when these incredible creatures meet hungry crocodiles.
It looks, as if the hippos use crocodile’s tails as a toothpick or something like that… Hippos in history. |
Egyptian chief-archaeologist Zahi Hawass mentions a pretty fascinating inscription on an ancient tomb:
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying: "If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus." It doesn’t mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
(Zahi Hawass)
And in a somewhat different context, find out how American actress Aisha N. Tyler sees hippos:
Do you have any idea what it’s like when you try and make home porn? My husband and I tried it.
We looked like charging hippos. Best to leave it to the pros.(Aisha Tyler)
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Monday, 23. August 2010 |
This is how it might look like if an asteroid hits planet earth.
| Some people suggest this will happen in December 2012… If so, enjoy yourself till all dissolves into cosmic dust! The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21st, 2012. This date is supposed to be the end-date of a 5′0125-year-long cycle in the Mayan calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological concepts related to this date have been suggested. An esoteric interpretation of this transition posits that during this time Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. Others suggest that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios posited for the end of the world include the Earth’s collision with a passing planet (often referred to as "Nibiru") or black hole, or the arrival of the next solar maximum. An artistic representation of this can be seen to the right: |
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American philosopher and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna believes however that in 2012 the world will not dissolve into pieces, but instead enter a whole new level of "novelty".
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The strange attractor of 2012.
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Tuesday, 17. August 2010 |
| In the mighty jungle, the professor and his unskilled assistant make an astonishing discovery…
A breakthrough in evolution! This wonderful short animation clip won several awards in Switzerland: By: Tabea Rotfuchs, Nino Christen and Maya Galluzzi @ Hochschule Luzern - Design und Kunst. |
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Monday, 16. August 2010 |
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Der Sommer geht, die dunkle Jahreszeit kommt… kein Grund für Depressionen, denn Heimdall bringt Feuer & Kraft zu Dir! Heimdalls speziell entworfene Bio-Ethanol-Fackel für Innen- und Aussenbereiche erschafft eine unvergleichliche Atmosphäre, dank sicherer Heimdall-Technologie und Heimdall-Design: Im Gegensatz zur herkömmlichen -gefährlichen- Bio-Ethanol-Feuerstelle, mit ihrem nervend unruhigen und transparentem Flammenspiel, wird bei der Heimdall-Fackel mittels eines Spezialdochtes und einer Röhre aus hitzebeständigem Glas, eine sehr kraftvolle Flamme erzeugt, die ohne hektisches Flackern, in angenehmen, satten Feuerfarben und ruhiger, eleganter Präsenz den umliegenden Raum erleuchtet. Trotz ihres modernen Designs und technischer Perfektion mit Edelstahltank und Glasbrenner, verbreitet Heimdalls Designerfackel eine heimelige und gemütliche Atmosphäre, das ruhige Flammenspiel reflektiert sich im Glas und wird durch die Edelstahlfläche verstärkt in den Raum gestreut, die Konturen verschwimmen, es entsteht ein zauberhaftes Licht- und Schattenspiel, das zum Entspannen und Träumen einlädt. Unsere Designerfackel gibt es in verschiedenen Ausführungen:
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Friday, 13. August 2010 |
Welcome Home
No teachers, no students. No awakened beings, no unawakened beings.
No path nor absence of a path. No gurus, no disciples. Simply life making love to itself, dancing as all of this, appearing as something we call ‘world’, as all that you see and all that you cannot see, arising and falling back into the barest emptiness, timelessly and forever…
And the emptiness is not a cold, dark, empty emptiness - but a rich, full, alive emptiness, pregnant with infinite possibility, saturated with this… incomprehensible intimacy that should, by all accounts, be impossible -
and yet, undeniably, is.
Nothing is not nothing , not the absence of all things, but also the presence of them, so that nothing is really everything…. and so it all ends not in nihilism, but in wonder, in fascination, in the kind of gratitude that breaks your heart.
Yes, all that is left is a radical simplicity that cannot be taught, cannot be formulated, reified, systematized, and ultimately cannot even be named - but still, it is all there is, and all there has ever been, and all there needs to be, because only a separate mind would ever want more.
It’s right here and right now. It’s there in and as the cup of coffee on the table in front of you, in each and every breath, in the wrinkles on your father’s face, in the feeling of the wind on your cheeks as you walk to the supermarket, in the pain in the chest as the body dies - and you’ve been seeking it your entire life without knowing it.
It’s beyond ‘awareness’ and ‘contents of awareness’ - it’s not pure consciousness (a blank space devoid of the personal) because blankness needs content to be known and experienced as blankness, just as emptiness needs form to be known and experienced as emptiness and vice versa - it’s not the witness behind the world because it’s also the world in its entirety which nothing can separate itself from in the first place and call itself a ‘witness’ -
it’s not Absolute as opposed to relative or vice versa because that very division never existed in the first place - it’s not ‘nobody here’ or ‘there is no person’, although those very personal viewpoints are allowed to arise and fall away naturally - it’s not ‘advaita’ as opposed to ‘neo-advaita’ or ‘neo-advaita’ as opposed to ‘advaita’ but it allows these man-made, mind-made divisions to play themselves out -
it’s not opposed to anything because it is everything including all opposition, even opposition to opposition -
it’s not mine or yours but it does not deny the possibility of mine and yours and relationship between them -
it’s not pure absence as opposed to presence or vice versa, but those concepts are allowed to arise too -
it’s not a teaching, but perhaps, and only perhaps, it can formulate itself as a self-destructing teaching, a kind of teaching which annihilates itself in the end, a temporary language which has no authority but that which you give it, and in the end (and there is no end), has no authority at all.
Because in the end, which is also the beginning, life is the only authority, and all the teachings of the world burn up in the fire of this unbounded freedom…
When you try to put this into words, you always fail.
Thank goodness it doesn’t need to be put into words.
And so, once again, beyond words or lack of them, welcome Home to what you really are.
(Jeff Foster)
(Photo: Butterfly on Pink-Violet Flower by h.r.fox @ ultrafeel.tv)
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Jeff Foster is a young advaita (non-duality) teacher who lives in the UK. He attempts to articulate the timeless message of nonduality, something that is ultimately impossible to put into words, in a simple, human and down-to-earth way, avoiding as much as possible the arcane, heavy, outdated and often self-righteous spiritual language of the past.
He believes that the truth - that which is present and alive - is absolutely free and cannot be captured by any religion, ideology, philosophy, belief system or person. Jeff presently conducts meetings and retreats in the UK and around the world. |
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Friday, 13. August 2010 |
| This must be the most ‘graphic’ slow motion advertisement video ever.
Of course it’s from Japan… With two guys squirting champagne at a young Japanese woman, the video is supposed to advertise for super-slow-motion cameras. Remember, it is champagne, nothing else! |
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