Karuna
Title: friend
About Me:
when i look inside and see that i’m nothing,
that’s wisdom.
when i look outside and see that i’m everything,
that’s love.
and between these two,
my life turns.
- sri nisargadatta maharaj
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that’s wisdom.
when i look outside and see that i’m everything,
that’s love.
and between these two,
my life turns.
- sri nisargadatta maharaj
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Member Since: Wednesday, February 01 2006
Last Visit: 56 days ago.
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Things Karuna Loves
Interests:
- presence
- keeping my heart open
- spanda
- daily life
- the present moment
- the roots of the roots of the roots
- sadhana
- satsang
- everyday creativity
- making art
- the burn of awakening
- human psychospiritual development
- expanding + integrating consciousness
- mysticism
- metaphysics
- wisdom teachings from all cultures
- the divine feminine
- tantra mantra yantra
- studies + practice in dharma
- buddhism
- mahamudra
- dzogchen
- advaita vedanta
- non-dualistic tantra
- kashmir shaivism
- sufism
- daily meditation
- chanting
- yoga
- ethical precepts
- lovingkindness
- transmuting fear + embodying love
- nondual philosophies
- mindfulness
- transformation
- sanskrit
- matrika shakti
- languages
- epistemology
- great conversations
- silence
- true companionship
- the company of children + the young at heart
- making you laugh
- people who can make me laugh
- deep listening
- mindfulness
- contemplative living
- astrology
- integral theory practice + application
- really connecting
- cooking for friends
- making music
- dancing
- touching
- grooving
- aesthetics
- great design
- gardening
- creating a life worth living
- digging deep
- learning
- reading
- writing
- practicing gratitude
- communing with nature
- the ocean
- starry nights
- big trees
- flowers
- hotsprings
- ritual + sacrament in everyday life
- symbolism
- life as art
- selfless service
- servant leadership
- activism
- lucidity
- humility
- emptiness
- the principles of conscious creation
- the laws of energy
- oneness...
Heroes:
- everyone who puts love first
- anonymous bodhisattvas
- dharma teachers
- mystics saints + sages who light the way
- really conscious dedicated parents
- peacemakers
- poets
- healers
- artists
- musicians
- bridge-builders
- pioneers
- risk-takers
- squeaky wheels
- persistent activists
- subverters of the old dominant paradigm
- catalysts + creators of new paradigms
- (r) evolutionaries
- people who tell / demonstrate the truth
- everyone working actively for justice across the globe
- deep ecologists
- underground + counterculture heroes
- media activists
- grassroots activists
- educators
- those who dedicate their time + energy to serving the greater good
- survivors who rise up
- social entrepreneurs
- everybody who is living their truth and endeavoring to do the right thing moment to moment especially when it's hard
- everyone committed to postive transformation
Teachers:
- life
- universal consciousness
- the moving carpet i'm learning to dance on
- my parents
- death
- illness
- solitude
- aloneness
- daily meditation practice
- silence
- the burn of sadhana
- kundalini shakti
- the body
- ngondro
- zikr
- the good the true + the beautiful
- baka + fana
- chod
- tonglen
- maya
- rumi
- jesus
- buddha
- my ex-lovers
- my own heart
- my family + friends
- the death of my mother
- people who've shared their death + dying experience with me have transmitted profound ineffable realizations
- my college art teacher
- marilyn frasca
- my own failures limitations + shortcomings
- ordinary people
- anam thubten rinpoche
- nisargadatta maharaj
- h.h. karmapa
- h.h. the dalai lama
- thich nhat hanh
- kalu rinpoche
- chagdud tulku rinpoche
- khenchen thrangu rinpoche
- tsultrim allione
- muktananda
- gurumayi
- ramana maharshi
- eckhart tolle
- ken wilber
- lama surya das
- krishnamurti
- teresa of avila
- neem karoli baba
- sally kempton
- pema chodron
- adyashanti
- osho
- frida kahlo
- cy twombly
- rauschenberg
- picasso
- matisse
- claudel
- basquiat
- beuys
- de kooning
- marc chagall
- o'keeffe
- shahn
- klee
- van gogh
- gustav klimt
- henry miller
- william morris
- people with active high quality creative lives
- my relationship with my own creativity
- perfectionism
- loss
- hardship
- heartbreak
- the children + young people in my life
- the elders in my life
- the face in the mirror
- teachers + mentors + exemplars too numerous to mention
- joseph campbell
- marianne williamson
- don miguel ruiz
- amy goodman
- noam chomsky
- howard zinn
- gary snyder
- joanna macy
- terence mckenna
- the good doctor levity
- friendships which have stood the test of time
- people who have loved me through thick + thin
- life experience in all its exquisite + excrutiating beauty
- my dreams+vision+hopes+fears
- dark nights of the soul
- grace
- animals (especially the ones i live with)
- nature
- the sun + the moon
- the earth
- each + every brand new day
- everyone who is wholeheartedly following their bliss
- genuinely peaceful people
- everyone who has surrendered to the fire of spiritual awakening
- you
Books:
- art books
- biographies
- autobiographies
- diaries
- the "great books"
- sacred texts
- books on awakening
- books on self-development + human potential
- books on integral everything
- books on healing + wholeness
- books on creativity
- lots of "children's" books
- books on dharma
- spirituality + religion
- astrology
- lots of poetry
- the oxford english dictionary
- various + sundry encyclopaedias
- the spiritual in art
- play of consciousness:muktananda
- i am that:muktananda
- the story of my experiments with truth:gandhi
- dhammapada:easwaran
- the heart of meditation:durgananda(kempton)
- practicing wisdom:the perfection of shantideva's bodhisattva way: dalai lama xiv
- words of my perfect teacher:patrul rinpoche
- jnaneshwar’s gita:kripananda
- pointers from nisargadatta maharaj
- tao te ching:lao tzu
- flowers fall:(eihei dogen)hakuun yasutani
- appreciate your life:maezumi roshi
- narada’s bhakti sutra
- diary of a young girl:anne frank
- translucent revolution:arjuna ardagh
- prajna paramita (heart sutra)
- life application study bible/new living translation/red letter
- gnostic gospels:pagels
- i ching
- concise yoga vasistha:venkatesananda
- dreams illusions + other realities:o'flaherty
- patanjali's yoga sutras
- luminous mind:kalu rinpoche
- power of now:ekhart tolle
- emptiness dancing:adyashanti
- upanishads (especially mandukya + chandogya):nikhilananda
- the splendor of recognition (on the pratyabijnahrdyam):shantananda
- vivekachudamani/crest-jewel of discrimination:shankaracharya: prabhavananda+isherwood
- vivekacudamani:dayananda saraswati
- atmabodha/self-knowledge (shankaracharya):nikhilananda
- tripurarahasya:ramananda saraswathi
- swadhyaya sudha (nectar of chanting)
- shreegurugeetartheshwaree:kusumeshwaree
- zen mind beginner's mind:shunryu suzuki
- anything by ken wilber
- love:leo buscaglia
- the alchemist:paolo coelho
- kama sutra:vatsyayana
- spiritual sex:nik douglas
- tibetan book of living + dying:sogyal rinpoche
- nine-headed dragon river:peter matthiessen
- far tortuga: peter matthiesen
- the divine comedy:dante alighieri
- the four agreements:don miguel ruiz
- poetry of rumi:coleman barks
- poetry of hafiz:daniel ladinsky
- ulysses + finnegan's wake:james joyce
- poetry of rainer maria rilke:robert bly
- paint as you like + die happy:henry miller
- gitanjali:rabindranath tagore
- to kill a mockingbird:harper lee
- the secret life of bees:sue monk kidd
- the moviegoer:walker percy
- soren kierkegaard
- carl jung
- richard feynman
- mary oliver
- gary snyder
- thich nhat hanh
- tsultrim allione
- pema chodron
- joseph campbell
- marianne williamson
- deepak chopra
- ira progoff
- julia cameron
- pablo neruda
- toni morrison
- anais nin
- walt whitman
- adrienne rich
- robert hayden
- anne sexton
- billy collins
- carlos castaneda
- oscar wilde
- tom robbins
- w. h. auden
- sylvia plath
- arundhati roy
- noam chomsky
- howard zinn
- shakespeare
- winston churchill
- frederick douglass........... and more + more + more
Music:
- bach
- beethoven
- mahler
- stravinsky
- mozart
- patti smith
- tom waits
- jeff buckley
- saul williams
- neil young
- cat stevens
- van morrison
- leonard cohen
- bob dylan
- beatles
- nina simone
- billie holiday
- miles davis
- dizzy
- bird
- john coltrane
- alice coltrane
- mingus
- curtis mayfield
- bill withers
- keith jarrett
- lucinda williams
- bob marley
- johnny cash
- george harrison
- john lennon
- bjork
- ravi shankar
- ani difranco
- ben harper
- michael franti
- smashing pumpkins
- james taylor
- everything but the girl
- james blunt
- macy gray
- elton john
- elvis costello
- fleetwood mac
- joni mitchell
- beth orton
- cat power / chan marshall
- coldplay
- krishna das
- nusrat fateh ali khan
- brian eno
- imogen heap
- radiohead
- david bowie
- queen
- rufus wainwright
- pink floyd
- led zeppelin
- rolling stones
- sly + the family stone
- allman brothers
- white stripes
- grateful dead
- mickey hart
- janis joplin
- jimi hendrix
- blackalicious
- funkadelic
- talking heads
- steely dan
- kinks
- shuggie otis
- joan armatrading
- kanye west
- etta james
- u2
- dj krush
- the roots
- guru
- dj shadow..........................motown
- reggae
- classic rock
- soul
- black gospel
- indian devotional chanting + classical
- western classical
- opera
- jazz
- blues
- r+b
- conscious hip hop
- funk
- world music
- indigenous music
- incantation
- electronic dance
- deep house
- abstract beats
- down tempo
- folk
- freedom songs
- protest songs
- punk
- tons o' stuff from the 60s + 70s
- anything with great lyrics
- a great beat or a great melody or groove
- anything live
- lots of local indie singer/songwriters in my town
- my friends + me with instruments + voices around the fire at night or any ol’ time
- i love unique evocative singing voices
- sexy grooves
- any music that makes me want to sing shout or move my body
- any music that touches my soul or gives me energy is good music to me...it's about the total groove...
Movies:
- offbeat independent film
- world cinema
- cult
- art house
- french cinema
- japanese cinema + anime
- hong kong + kung fu cinema (good + bad)
- documentaries
- human stories
- 'dark' comedy
- stories of existential humanism..........kieslowski
- kurosawa
- truffaut
- charlie kaufman
- satyajit ray
- wachowski brothers
- wong kar-wai
- almodovar
- campion
- altman
- bergman
- woody allen
- jarmusch
- gilliam
- godard
- spielberg
- tarantino
- ......................... matrix trilogy
- harold + maude
- basquiat
- frida
- high art
- spring summer fall winter...+ spring
- il postino
- high fidelity
- adaptation
- being john malkovich
- slam
- it's a wonderful life
- apu trilogy
- qatsi trilogy
- shawshank redemption
- trois couleurs
- the decalogue
- 13 conversations about one thing
- amelie
- wizard of oz
- henry + june
- crash
- camille claudel
- jean de florette / manon des sources
- city of lost children
- eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
- andrei rublev
- what the bleep do we know
- ikiru
- dead man walking
- magnolia
- wings of desire
- babette's feast
- truman show
- one
- dreams
- city of god
- baraka
- schindler's list
- unbearable lightness of being
- my dinner with andre
- american beauty
- crouching tiger / hidden dragon
- run lola run
- godspell
- true romance
- life is beautiful
- love actually
- i heart huckabees
- hero
- talk to her
- me + you + everyone we know
- jeux interdits
- burnt by the sun
- dersu uzala
- like water for chocolate
- annie hall
- chocolat
- lilies of the field
- umbrellas of cherbourg
- wild strawberries
- life as a house
- the door in the floor
- fight club
- shadowlands
- born into brothels
- adaptation
- my night at maud's
- groundhog day
- princess bride
- big fish
- mystic river
- castaway
- godfather
- kill bill
- .....the original la femme nikita
- secretary
- american splendor
- smoke
- saved
- scotland pa
- the triplets of belleville
- princess mononoke
- my neighbor totoro
- spirited away
- loved the hbo series "six feet under"
Goals
- work for zaadz
- leave a legacy of love + empowerment
- be the change
- stay awake + present in every moment
- embody love + wisdom to my marrow
- radiant well-being
- a conscious, courageous, beautiful life
- meaningful, high vibration, deeply fulfilling livelihood
- equanimity
- more regularity + discipline in my dinacharya
- keep paring down + simplifying
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