In 1997, Michael Haneke wrote and directed Funny Games, a film that has always been famous for the large number of viewers leaving the cinema: there are few people I know who can watch it unflinchingly in its entirety: when I rented it on DVD I had to take breaks to allow myself some breathing [...]
watching torture
November 27, 2007 – 9:16 pm
gion kouta
November 26, 2007 – 11:23 am
Danced by the (then) maiko Mameshino from the Gion district
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsgQ2aJ0TIk
This version danced by two maiko from Pontocho: Hisano and Tomoyuki. The musician is a geiko: Kazumi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebiXeM7h50
drink the nectar, eat the food
November 26, 2007 – 10:09 am
In the tibetan yogic practice tradition three streams meet: that of bön shamanic practice, the path of the Indian mahasiddhas and the path of Shakyamuni Buddha in its mahayana form. The emphasis on the monastic institutions of the later, new translation schools sometimes obscures the fact that the bön and mahasiddha strains are so strong [...]
yes sir, i can boogie
November 25, 2007 – 10:47 pm
I know you’re looking for it and on the old scanr blog it was the most popular posting …The original posting contained the original by Baccara as well, but there is only so much I can endure, so the Goldfrapp cover it will have to be…(this one @ Glastonbury, 2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVSJjlIBBHo
dark retreat
November 25, 2007 – 9:03 pm
I’m converting masses of typed, hard copy notes into electronic text by means of OCR and scanning. I’ve started work on sorting through the retreat notes I kept, and happened upon a stack of type-written notes from my dark retreat preparation. A delightful irony: I noted: the practice is about relaxing totally in a completely [...]
natural mind
November 25, 2007 – 8:46 pm
All concepts and all thoughts arise in our inner space, then vanish back into its emptiness, just as a cloud originates from an empty sky . We have to try to understand our true condition to see that all our concepts and and all our problems arise there, exist there, and disappear there. Finding this [...]
easy
November 25, 2007 – 8:07 pm
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche talks about the dzogchen…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7BP-RDJspM
on the rock
November 25, 2007 – 7:45 am
The clarinet reigns supreme in our house and there’s much of it to be heard these days, amongst which is this perennial classic, Schubert’s Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen. Is it a coincidence that -like Mozart - he died after writing a seminal piece for clarinet? We keep our thoughts to ourselves….
This version has Elly [...]
