Just Be

I simply had to post this.

“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a ver...y moving spiritual experience. They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe. The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened, the many concepts of enlightenment is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in the idea of enlightenment.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.

Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.”

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Argh Billy!

After missing out in December because of foul weather, I finally joined Brad out on the salt. Story and pics to follow.

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The passing of a Legend

The Sun reports Levon Helm has passed at the age of 71.

"In addition to singing, Helm played drums, mandolin and other string instruments in The Band, one of the most revered and influential rock groups to emerge from the 1960s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, it played a brand of rustic rock that drew on country, blues and rhythm and blues and sounded quintessentially American - even though Helm was the only member not from Canada."

He appeared in a number of films (including Coal Miner's Daughter), but, I liked him in The Shooter.

...and all the bells were ringing.

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From the Last Waltz, here is The Band performing the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VShpcqd3zE

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.ca?

You're kidding, right?
WTFM... Read More...

Has it really been that long?

Guess I should say Happy New Year!
Been settling in with my life here in rural Nova Scotia.
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