Atchison State Lake, March, 2011. I’m looking forward to heading out into the countryside with my camera this weekend. Lots of new spring growth and fresh air that I need to take in.
I read a book on Sunday called “The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment” by Thaddeus Golas — I had picked it up (with a grain of salt) at the Lawrence Public Library book sale last fall. I’m not so sure a lazy mind (hence, a lazy man) could reach “enlightenment” — whatever that really means, and it was very obviously written in the early 70s with lots of reference to certain cultural ideas of that time.. Anyway, I underlined a few passages that I thought I could put down here:
“The way you see the world depends entirely on your own vibration level. When your vibration changes, the whole world will look different.”
“You take yourself with you wherever you go. As they say in Zen: If you can’t find it where you’re standing, where do you expect to wander in search of it?”
“We should give what we would expect to get, good or bad, in the same circumstance, and begin with the knowledge that all beings are equal.”
“When we are relating to beings whose vibrations are higher or lower than ours, we feel unstable and uncertain.”
“There is a good attitude to take towards any goal: It’s nice if it happens, nice if it doesn’t.”