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karma yoga

Posted by stuart davis 16Aug

song of the day: Sari / Nellie Mckay
word of the day: sinistrorse / turned or spiralling upwards towards the left
monk of the day: Nichole Fromm (the bomb! wooooooooooo!!!!!!!)

i spent the weekend attending with the integral institute gang, attending Roger Walsh's two day work shop. day one was on Karma Yoga, day two was devoted to ethics.

day one we went through the nine points of karma yoga, what i have from my notes (these are not Roger's words or phrasings):

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Posted by stuart davis 13Aug

song of the day: Dead Man's Party Oingo Boingo
word of the day: Word / Speech, utterance. 2, a thing or things said, a remark or remarks. 3, verbally represent or cause to be represented as
koan of the day: "Pee on me"
- Jerry Blank (Amy Sedaris' character in Strangers With Candy to a girl she's trying to seduce in a hotel room...)

i almost have a real roof on my house. gives one the sense of enclosure...

magnolia

Posted by stuart davis 13Aug

song of the day: wise up / aimee mann
word of the day: metonymy / the substitution of a word denoting an attribute or adjunct of a thing for the denoting the thing itself (like in "do you want a KLEENEX?" or let's get a COKE {as a reference to all soda generically...}
monk of the day: tanja, desiree, rinus (holland)

the secret

Posted by stuart davis 11Aug

song of the day: Crying (that version in Mulholland Drive where the chick sings it acapella)
word of the day: Dol / unit for measuring intensity of pain
monk of the day: Will Bueche (gasho)

up till three a.m. last night hanging sheet rock. i managed to almost get the other side of the studio all rocked. it's kind of difficult lifting those big sheets when you're skinny, maladroit, and sleepy. the little Dane that could...

Stephen Colbert

Posted by stuart davis 10Aug

song of the day: true colors / Cyndi Lauper
word of the day: hooroosh / a cry or noise of excitement or confusion
monk of the day: Dave Tolmie (mr., you rule. gasho....)

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