set me free

"Set Me Free"

Life is a lesson you can only learn for free and time keeps on slippin' 
like a faded memory
And I got the answers starin' right in front of me, time heals my soul
Set me free, set me free, set me free, set me free
I stand about, face my mission, you don't know what you've been missin'

There is a reason for all that comes to be
My troubled life riddled with dark insanities
I need solutions through the pain that surrounds me, time heals my soul

Set me free, set me free, set me free, set me free
I stand about, face my mission, you don't know what you've been missin'

Life is a lesson you can only learn for free and time keeps on slippin' 
like a faded memory
And I got the answers starin' right in front of me, time heals my soul

Set me free, set me free, set me free, set me free 



Pennywise.




got nothing to say... as per the norm, I really just don't give a fuck. "ESPECIALLY" when someone else has already said it better and tossed some kick ass guitar riffs behind it. 4 weeks till pennywise at the world cup ! Bikes, Babes and Bands... plus shredding with the best riders in the world. Already got at the Athertons, might get to have a pint with Gee, Rachel and Dan... would totally be a dream come true...  Either way, planning on tracking down King Peaty and getting slaughtered Sunday after the podium BS... 

Turtle Power

A little late night egg laying

Location : 9-29 Cloverhill Ave, Hamilton, ON L9H 2P3,

Chipmunk blowing out a toke

In the sky...

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Reset

Ever get a chance to do redo something in your life. Something you've failed at, or someone who's slipped through your fingers no matter how hard you tried to keep them near. Ever just get a chance to go back and click the reset button. I have, and let me tell you, it's excellent. Honestly, it's not like anything that has happened in the last year to me has been negative, or positive, it's just BEEN.... I'm lucky, unlike most people I seem to come with this built in reset button, which is great, but it doesn't mean everyone or anyone else has reset along with me; until now. Recently, it really does seem like everyone in my life, and everyone who I have recently welcomed into my life, like some rad new friends have all found their reset all at once. For, what is probably the first time in my life, I feel like I'm part of something. I don't feel like I still have the need to reach out to people and try to bring them in fruitlessly. Finally were in this, this whatever it is, together.

I'm not living
I'm just killing time
Your tiny hands
Your crazy kitten smile

Just don't leave
Don't leave

And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps    

Thom York

          

 

1. Right View

"Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realize the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not necessarily an intellectual capacity, just as wisdom is not just a matter of intelligence. Instead, right view is attained, sustained, and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the intuitive insight that all beings are subject to suffering and it ends with complete understanding of the true nature of all things. Since our view of the world forms our thoughts and our actions, right view yields right thoughts and right actions."

The big picture, probably one of the hardest concepts to grasp. Furthermore seeing reality it for what it is, a challenge not many will accomplish in their lifetime. The fist stone on the Eightfold Path and probably the most important. Striving for true right view has opened up doors to understanding and patience I never knew I had. It has also led me to see some people for whom they really are; mostly lost. Knowing that the ones you love make many of their decisions based on lustful craving, fear or mindlessness can shake your existence to what seems nearly bare. Contrary to this, Right view can be very unbinding, sort of like a mental enema, allowing your own thoughts and delusions to simply be shed away.

useless

The Buddha compared desires to being in debt. If you owe money to the bank for your house, every month you have to pay. In the end, you will own the house. With sensual desires however, you cannot pay off the debt; they arise again and again. Hunger, thirst, lust for sex, warmth, coolness, they all come back again and again. Trying to fulfill our desires is like carrying water to the sea; a never ending task and ultimately completely useless.

"If the basic project of mainstream Buddhist practice is to unmask the ego illusion for what it is, one of the main prongs of attack is directed against desire. Desire gets a very bad press in the Buddhist scriptures. It is a poison, a disease, a madness. There is no living in a body that is subject to desire, for it is like a blazing house.

Now, desire lives and grows by being indulged. When not indulged by the application of ethical restraint and awareness, on the other hand, it stabilizes and begins to diminish, though this is not an easy or comfortable process, for the old urges clamor for satisfaction for a long time.

This kind of practice cuts directly against the main currents of modern consumer society, where desire is energetically encouraged and refined to new pitches and variations by the powerful agencies of marketing and publicity. But it also cuts against the more moderate desires-for family, wealth, sense-pleasures and so on sanctioned in simpler, more traditional societies, including the one into which the Buddha was born. We can never be at peace while desire is nagging at us."

                                                    John Snelling