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November 8, 2004
seeking quietness
there are so many lines of thought tangled in my head right now just trying to coherently string them into words would sap all the energy i have left.
so i do what i always do when i'm running away from myself - i either sing my heart out, or bury my nose deep in a book.
i did both, plus half an hour dosage of clicking with my camera. i think i managed to exhaust the restlessness in me.
gonna share another krishnamurti wisdom at the end of this post - right now, the things i meant to blog today.
one - the acoustic thing is tentatively set on first week of december.
two - tested cron job on the photoblog last weekend, it worked like a song. moksha is going to stand by its daily update promise with or without me! took tonnes of pics over the weekend so that i can holiday in peace while moksha churns out its daily quota.
three - am going to change the songs on chaos radio soon. so enjoy the jazz while its still there.
four - i made today sound like a bad stress day - actually it was a good day, am just frazzled is all.
five - fiona apple's "love ridden" lyrics keeeeeep playing over and over in my head today. i haven't listened to her in ages, funny how a tune can just pop into your head and stick.
six - i miss days where i wake up and lounge in bed reading reading reading endlessly watching the light change on my walls till its dark and i know its time to do something about the dull hunger in my tummy
seven - actually i really miss reading :(
eight - moksha's categories don't work :(
here's the krishnamurti text i promised to share :
it is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain. the very demand for the repetition of pleasure brings about pain, because it is not the same as it was yesterday. you struggle to achieve the same delight, not only to your aesthetic sense but the same inward quality of the mind, and you are hurt and disappointed because it is denied to you.
so if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want to, but don't just slip into it. if you want to end pleasure though, which is to end pain, you must be totally attentive to the whole structure of pleasure, not cut it out as monks do, never looking at a woman because they think it is a sin and thereby destroying the vitality of their understanding - but seeing the whole meaning and significance of pleasure.
then you will have tremendous joy in life. you cannot think about joy. joy is an immediate thing and by thinking about it, you turn it into pleasure. living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
posted by nyx at November 8, 2004 9:22 PM
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