A 14-year-old boy, Gerrit Blank, survives a 30,000 mph meteorite hit- "At first I just saw a large ball of light, and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand. Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder. The noise that came after the flash of light was so loud that my ears were ringing for hours afterwards. When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road."- Gizmodo
This moved me, not to tears, but the casual way of speaking about what relates close to heart:
" Well, anyway, one time, right after Linda died, he did say a little something. Linda was my wife, you know? "Time's different there," he said. "Everyone arrives at the same time." That's all he said and he wouldn't say any more about it when I asked him. I think about that a lot, though."
- Caveat Emptor
Perhaps this is the way for us to live, and this is what real meditation is- Buddhist or not:
"These days, I no longer think of meditation as a kind of upgrade, replacing my gimcrack, shoddy, not-quite-fit-for-purpose mind with one that is sleek, shiny and new, one that functions with a cool, unruffled grace. Instead, it seems to me that the reason meditation is both useful and fascinating is that it is a way of exploring directly this kluginess of the mind, of recognising the slips and the fudges and the shortcuts, and of finding ways of living with them. It is not, that is to say, a means of perfecting the mind, but instead as a kind of empirical practice that acts as an antidote to the fantasy that there could ever be such a thing as a perfected mind, and that finds what could be called practical kluges for living as best we can with the klugey mind."
-Will Buckingham.
" “Suddenly I was thrown into this expansive, amazing feeling of freedom—from myself, from my problems. I saw that I was bigger than what I do. I was bigger than my body. I was everything and everyone. I was no longer a fragment of the universe—I was the universe.”"
- Jim Carrey is the founder of a new religion- it is called GATE.
This is Carrey's first sermon:
And being Jim Carrey, he managed to be funny while he was preaching. He asked the last person in the last row of the audience to call out her name.
“Andrea.”
“Are you aware that—do you have the distinct, palpable feeling that your intention helped create this evening?”
“Absolutely,” she replied promptly.
“Do you understand that all of this, this entire event, is happening inside you?”
A pause, then an uncertain, “Ye-e-e-s.” The audience laughed.
“I hope you can feel that,” Carrey said. “I hope you can understand that you are one of the creators of this evening. … And then I hope you are able to ask yourself—“Why did I get such a crappy seat?”
-The Daily Beast.
George Bush's tribute to his father:
"The greatest gift that my dad has given me has been unconditional love. He loves me when times are good and he loves me when times are bad. He loves me when I've been successful and he loves me when I've failed."
- The Daily Beast.
And finally, with thanks to Ox Herding, here is Alan Watts on the secret teaching of Buddhism, described in less than a minute (45 seconds to be precise):
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