There are many theories about Resnais’ “Last Year in Marienbad”. I figure it is about Emptiness and the Bardo after dying. So strange, just listening to the monologues and the bits of dialogue and the music that carries the entire film. I do remember how unsettling it is to watch. Regrets that this is now [...]
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before
July 31, 2008 – 11:21 pm
struck
July 31, 2008 – 6:20 pm
Garab Dorje’s “Three Statements That Strike the Fundamental Point (Garab (”joyful”) Dorje’s Last Testament)
NAMO GURUVE!
Homage to that confidence deriving from understanding one’s own state of immediate intrinsic Awareness!
This state of immediate intrisic Awareness (called rig-pa) is uncreated and self-existing. Its mode of being represents the essence that is the primordial Base. Everywhere the manner in [...]
time
July 17, 2008 – 7:21 pm
Spinvis - Aan de Oevers van de Tijd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiQvxc_2y7o
afterculture
July 15, 2008 – 8:36 pm
There was some talk about how what we were doing shouldn’t be “a game”. But I wonder why it shouldn’t be. It seems to me that we are gaming the system in a very real sense. It is obvious that something is happening and that what we are doing is to lay the foundations of [...]
precious
July 15, 2008 – 12:03 am
In the intermediate state that is this life, the present moment,
one does not realize one’s own mind and is distracted by deluded activities,
does not remember impermanence and death,
pursues only the goals of’ this life and is bound
by the suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
When this present illusory body suddenly meets its final illness,
may [...]
bardo
July 2, 2008 – 7:09 pm
From: Reginald Ray, Secret of the Vajra World - The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet
In the bardo retreat, one follows a course of meditation that simulates the experiences of death and the after-death state. (See chapter 14.) The retreat itself is carried out in complete darkness, and because it is considered dangerous, facilities for it were [...]
blue
June 18, 2008 – 7:55 pm
From “Blue”, by Derek Jarman. With greatest gratitude to Jarko who pointed me here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3aDUnIgvfo
last
June 18, 2008 – 7:47 am
If you like classical music, Youtube is great. I heard D. grumbling, because the internet connection in her teaching room is so lousy. She likes to let her students listen to many versions of the same piece. That’s how she taught me to listen to music. The wonderful thing about Youtube is its immense backlist [...]
bones
June 17, 2008 – 8:02 am
The hardest time I had in practicing was in learning Chöd. This is a psychological ceremony, which is self-enacted and which is meant to exorcise “Self” and cut the attachment to the idea of a solid, inherently existing Self. This it does by first enacting a fearful and demonic setting. The actor, performer, is both [...]
