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Scire licet nobis nihil esse in morte timendum,
nec miserum fieri qui non est posse neque hilum,
differre an nullo fuerit iam tempore natus,
mortalem vitam mors cum inmortalis ademit.
Titus Lucretius Carus
Latin poet and philosopher
From De rerum natura (On the nature of things)
Miley Cyrus on the latest Letterman show:
“and I realize now the show can go on.
But ‘the show must go on’?
Like, that, I can’t live by anymore.”
"An honest man dwells amongst thieves only so long as he does not know them as such. No sooner does he come to know them than he is sure to shun their company and flee from the spot. So too the mind dwells amongst unreal dualities as long as it is ignorant of the transcendent One. But when it becomes aware of True Unity, it is sure to be united with it. When the ignorant mind comes to know the Supreme Bliss attendant on the state of Nirvana, it is ready to resort to it, as the inland stream runs to join the boundless sea. "
Returning to Shiva - Yoga Vasishtha Maharamayana
In this material world everyone is suffering—the birds, the beasts, the trees, the animals, the plants, and even Brahmā and Indra. Indra is also not safe; he is always in anxiety about competitors who may come.
-Swami Prabhupada, Teachings of Queen Kunti, Chapter Eighteen.
I read Auden’s poem every year on September 1.
Here are some excerpts:
We must love one another and die 
…into the Deathless.
- Hence there is a twofold death; the one, indeed, universally known, in which the body is liberated from the soul; but the other peculiar to philosophers, in which the soul is liberated from the body. Nor does the one entirely follow the other.
– Porphúrios (Porphyry), " Sententiae"
(may need to substitute citta for soul)
School holidays -kids wanted to go see the new Transformers movie - so a Transformers movie marathon of all the other movies just happened here first.
Not super profound, but I over heard this line and it caught my attention.
‘Every galaxy I’ve travelled, your species, you’re all the same, you all think you are the centre of the universe, … you have no idea’ - Megatron - Decepticon Transformer
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” - Mike Tyson
Therein what is a plan? A plan for the future, based on the underlying tendency towards repulsion from painful feeling, consisting of desired actions of body, speech, and mind to undertake with the goal of avoiding painful feeling.
Therein what is punched in the face? Painful feeling arisen from the six classes of contact.
