John Muir: My life with Nature

by Joseph Cornell

( from the book's back cover )

John Muir: My Life with Nature 

by Joseph Cornell 

Illustrations by Elizabeth Ann Kelley and Christopher Canyon 

(Nevada City: …

Fortune is not found by

the diggers of gold or by those

who scavenge the marketplace

Fortune is not theirs who dive

into oceans to find what those

before them could afford to lose…

by Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I

Recognizing Suffering

The Sanskrit word …

Your mind can be in five different states. It can be inert. That means it is not activated at all -- it is in a rudimentary state. If you energize an inert mind, the mind becomes active but scattered. If you energize it further, it is no longer scattered, but oscillating. If you energize it…

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Once the…

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« Igorchestral, » the second movement of « Octoccata, » has been thus named because of the inspiration for the music, and the selected arrangement.…

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« Octoccata » is an instrumental suite clocking in at a little over…

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The fifth and as of yet unwritten chapter is entitled «…

(Detail from « The hares and frogs » by Wenzel Hollar)

The fourth chapter of the series is entitled « Lepufology 401 : Responding To An Invasion. » Having accepted to collaborate…

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The Lepufology Project started as an instrumental composition meant as a tribute to Robert Anton Wilson's book « Quantum…

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I read the The Tibetan Book of the Dead twice. I started with a French…

(« Akshobhya Buddha » by VanemTao)

The last section of « Between Worlds » is entitled « Determination » and is intended to depict the intermediate state of rebirth, known as the « sidpa bardo, » the…