{"id":4175,"date":"2012-03-13T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2012-03-13T15:23:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:23:43","slug":"lazy-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/lazy-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy lake \/ Book report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

\nI 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:<\/p>\n

\n“The way you see the world depends entirely on your own vibration level. When your vibration changes, the whole world will look different.”<\/p>\n

“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?”<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

“When we are relating to beings whose vibrations are higher or lower than ours, we feel unstable and uncertain.”<\/p>\n

“There is a good attitude to take towards any goal: It’s nice if it happens, nice if it doesn’t.”<\/p>\n

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