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The Inner Prison: The Dhamma Brothers & Vipassana in Jail

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2011 | Afri, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Now, Racism, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

To date, 430 inmates have gone through the Donaldson Vipassana meditation program, the only one of its kind in North America. There’s a waiting list for the quarterly sessions, and the state wants to expand the offering to its women’s prison. An NPR story....

Auctioning the Past (Idealism)…

by Pier Marton | Feb 7, 2011 | Art, Ego, History, Human Rights, Magyar, Politics, Time

… selling the future is harder. Youth culture is always for sale… but idealism cannot actually be bought. By Farkas Aladár, a family friend. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare...

Go(o)d Joke/Blague de Dieu/Panzana di Dio

by Pier Marton | Feb 7, 2011 | Humor, Mystery, Time

Man: God? God: Yes? Man: Can I ask you something? God: Of course! Man: What is for you a million years? God: A second. Man: And a million dollars? God: A penny. Man: God, Can you give me a penny? God: Sure. Wait a second. Uomo: Dio ? Dio: Si ? Uomo : Posso chiedere...

Peter Buffet: If I could hold you

by Pier Marton | Feb 1, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Archi, Art, Asia, Cam, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, iPhone, Mac, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Music, Now, Objects, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Software, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Travel, Video, Wars, Women

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Text and Drive? (txt n drv)

by Pier Marton | Feb 1, 2011 | Death, Doc, Eco, Future Tech, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Media, Now, Objects, Software, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Women

WHERE R – LOL – YEAH – WHERE U AT Thanks to A.A. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Better Searches

by Pier Marton | Jan 29, 2011 | Future Tech, Ideas, Software, Time

From LifeHacker Don’t Use Words You Don’t Need Use the AROUND() Operator Eliminate Terms You Don’t Want and Force Terms You Do… Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus