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Friday, August 10, 2012

The Greatest Olympian (comedy)

Wisdom Quarterly
Not -- McKayla Maroney, Team USA, women's gymnastics -- impressed (ANI/Daily Mail)


LONDON, England - It has to be said, by the tabulation of Wisdom Quarterly's resident statisticians, that the greatest Olympian is... Usain Bolt, the "world's fastest man," of Jamaica. Of course, much has to be said for photogenic-up-and coming superstars Gabby "the Flying Squirrel" Douglas, Allyson Felix, China's surprising stars, India's newest heroes, and the winningest Michael "How Much More Gold If I Had Used a Nebulizer" Phelps. Other notable heroes are decathlon champ Ashton Eaton, heptathlon champ Jessica Ennis, Japanese Buddhist monk horse jockey Ven. Kenki Sato, China's Liu Xiang, England's Mo Farah, and the legendary Bhutanese Buddhist female archer Sherab Zam, and Afghanistan and Iraq's unmysterious performance. When it comes to sports and the over 10,000 athletes in the 2012 Olympiad, comedy ranks lower than former-Olympic sport "poetry writing." Yet, somehow Monty Python manages to get both sporting and literary endeavors onto the comedic podium in "Novel Writing."

"Mitt, what does it mean?"

Alternative to meditation (video)

Jeff Foster, Lifewithoutacentre.com
The easy alternative may seem harder than standard "meditation" if we are unable to let go.
  
Beginner's mind (De lioncourt/flickr.com)
() There is an alternative perspective on approaching "meditation." It is somewhat paradoxical intellectually but makes perfect sense in practice when it is/seems effortless. 
  
It is akin to the jhanic Theravada approach or Zen's "just sitting" (zazen), known by other names in various Buddhist lineages and referred to as "presence" and the "power of now" by Eckhart Tolle.
  
It leads to concentration/collectedness (samadhi) not insight (satori). It results in serenity (samatha) not enlightenment (kensho). It may lead to an experience of non-duality (advaita) but not liberation as the historical Buddha described it in what only later came to be called vipassana (insight meditation).
Jeff Foster regards meditation not as a "doing," a process, a state ,or a goal to reach, but as an effortless noticing and welcoming of present-time experience. Ultimately, meditation is not something one does but something we already are -- the vast open space of consciousness, which is already intimate with all forms.