working with a few new images and the concept of transmuting negativity. adding another to the digital art pile. this item contains numeric symbols relating to Buddhism, specifically, those which deal with the obstructions, the poisons, the eightfold path, and the four states. the shift, left to right, demonstrations the manner in which moving from the five and the three via the eightfold path and maintaining it by four states delivers the outcome for which the piece is titled.

morning meditations complete, today’s contemplation is on seeking balance and trying to find the right path when beset by actions and negativities.

this is to you. you know who you are. i’ll keep it simple. short. terse even.

sometimes i wonder how it is some people manage to live from day to day with the paranoia and fear they inflict on themselves and others.

irony of ironies, i am unable to do the one, last thing because to do it would mean having to endure another contact and i simply will not do so. cannot. will not. sickened and repulsed and done done done done done, damn you to hell, DONE. i would rather just let it sit and gather dust until the weight of the dust grinds it into nothingness than ever, ever again find as much as a dot come my way from either. and so it will. Rinpoche hugged me and said something that hurt even as it helped, “As you […]

either things are related or chance is truly bizarre. i choose to believe the former. last night, in conversation, a friend calls me (kindly) ‘eccentric’. it is not a word one hears often these days.

playing around with photos tonight, i got kind of obssessed on this mouth. i couldn’t quite manage to cut it up the way i normally would… and when i got to thinking on that, the rest came to me kind of naturally.

some time ago, i purposed to do a series of contemplation on the eightfold path. life decided to jump up and snarl the traces for a time and i did not proceed as planned. i am doing so. this is the fourth of what will eventually be eight posts, upon the eightfold path as outlined in the Buddhist tradition: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.

interesting the things that are leaping out at me lately. this song, appropriately named, and somewhat hard to hear, i heard on the way into work today. it finally left my head… and then…

you know that feeling you get when you think something, but you’re not sure, and then, suddenly, something happens that confirms it… but you didn’t really want it to be confirmed? well that’s the feeling i have at this moment.