Juli 31: A perfect storm, swordfishing and early Buddhism
Not much happened this day, besides solving a couple of crosswords and sudokos. Is this what happens with your life when you’re becoming a grown-up, or am I just a lazy bloke without inspiration? Anyhow, surprisingly enough I didn’t gather much wisdom, except from the awful movie “A perfect storm” which at least had me curious enough for checking out the places the swordfishermen mentioned.
Wisdom nr 22: A perfect storm is a really bad movie, but also the name of a couple of weather systems colliding, therefore creating what could be called a “weather bomb”. Or more easily put: you don’t want to be there when it happens. But it’s fun watching on TV, or on Youtube. I have a couple of favourite clips on great storms I’ll share with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fQ1eWv36o & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRO6H8puHF8&feature=fvsr
Wisdom nr 23: I am getting to weak for watching people trolling swordfishes, one after another. I used to be that kind of vegetarian at least capable of keeping distance from pictures and film clips of dead animals and such, but something has happened. Could it be the Osho-meditation?
Wisdom nr 24: Reading a book about Buddhism, I’m amazed about the stories from 800 – 500 b.c when it started to take form in Vedic India. The situation in the society seemed to be comparative with the situation in the Western world today. People where looking for something else than material surplus and at the same time an individualistic tendency feeded a movement from the religious traditions focusing on the collective rituals and offerings, to the more spiritual and transcendent mindfulness that one can find in the Sutras of Buddha. Even more interesting is that Buddhism and Hinduism in many ways probably changed one another equally.
Too weak to watch this? Maybe you're becoming a buddhist...
