Fool Turtle

I am exhausted. So, first, most importantly, I’d like to say, “Thanks.” It turns out that there are a number of good posts that could have satisfied my query, but it didn’t occur to me to search until after my first ceremony. What is the most difficult practice? I am joking, but serious: the Inner Smile.

I don’t feel up to describing the…[Read more]

Sister or Brother,

Today there is an eclipse, and I am in turmoil. I would like to give myself something better than cigarettes for (as I have come to understand over years) opening my heart, consuming fire, sedating anger and suppressing dark feelings. Is there something you would suggest that I could do today with the eclipse? Some…[Read more]

My mind can’t answer when you call
If it did I’d be stealing your life from you

– Ikkyu

In general, I agree with you. More importantly, I learn from you and anyone kind enough to show me what I do not know or cannot see. It’s interesting that the last image in the video was that of a smiling baby…

Do you vote, I wonder? If so, y…[Read more]

Thanks, there is some interesting material in the links you provided. What do you think about the amazing abilities purportedly possessed by those yogis and TM practitioners?

As for Urophagia… Hmmm. I’ve tasted my “golden elixer” before, but currently have other use for it. There’s an article on this site–Healing Tao goes…[Read more]

I will try

From: Fool Turtle
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2014-09-02 02:57:39
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I said to God, “Let me love you.”
And he replied, “Which part?”

“All of you, all of you.” I said.

“Dear” God spoke, “You are as a mouse wanting to impregnate
a tiger who is not even in heat. It is a feat way
be…[Read more]

I do hope so, that we find ways to use what harms us to heal us. I consider every time that I urinate elsewhere than on the ground to be a witheld gift that would have been appreciated by the green plantlife. I have restored several acres of distraught (damaged) forest land with the blessing of piss. Even the royal gardeners are doing it……[Read more]

Today’s my day for making simple errors!

Gardening is a vast topic, so just for now, I think these articles are relevent and interesting:

As an enthusiastic advocate of the nutrient-dense approach, Yee is careful to explain that she also finds value in other farming philosophies, from bio-intensive to Biodynamic. “The art and beauty of…[Read more]

New Cassini photo of Saturn’s moon Iapetus shows the satellite’s dark and light sides as resembling the yin and yang symbol in Chinese philosophy. Image via NASA/JPL Caltech/Space Science Institute.

http://earthsky.org/todays-image/yin-and-yang-of-saturns-moon-iapetus

This is something that I’m working with:

Saturn is in 26 D…[Read more]

If today is your birthday, have a happy one! Your wish was received fully from the perspective that they are, perhaps, simultaneous occurences. In the spirit of birthdays, here are a few of the gifts that I just unwrapped:

“Natur never makes enny blunders. When she makes a phool she means it”

– Josh Billings

I shall take…[Read more]

Odd, natural outcome to my smiling practice, I suppose. Right now I feel very quiet. After reading a tremendous amount over the last few days, now my thoughts just melt.

Reminded that I’m a fool, slowly realizing as much. Smiling while a tear shines down my nose. It’s nice to be embarrassed and grateful; it’s nice to silently laugh at…[Read more]

(Left) plaster cast of an adult foot that has never worn shoes displaying natural splayed toes (Right) cast of boy showing damage and inward-turned toes after wearing shoes for only a few weeks

Forgive my title, please: I thought it amusing, but that’s just my sense of humor. I do appreciate your drawing attention to the risk/benifit of…[Read more]

Good to be informed and safe. Also–when considering risk–to consider Earth, others, and the unborn.
My opinion is that until one no longer needs food, one should appreciate the web of life as it sustains them.

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Gardens As a Source of Infectious Disease: Reducing the Risk

John McLaughlin, P…[Read more]

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

– Kahlil Gibran

‘The great infection of mankind’ Hookworms still a health issue for 10 percent of world’s population

http://www.jmu.edu/biology/_files/newsletter/2008newsletter.pdf

So many stories about the good cr…[Read more]

There have been cases of gardeners dying from contact with contaminated store-bought compost containing Legionellis.

Legionnaires’ Disease
Also called: Legionellosis

Legionnaires’ disease is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria. You usually get it by breathing in mist from water that contains the bacteria. The mist may come from hot…[Read more]

I love poetry that I may never “understand” – and that’s ok. Your words gave me something to digest, so here’s a poem that has a feeling of … :

Airing out kimonos

by Fukuda Chiyo-ni

English version by Patricia Donegan & Yoshie Ishibashi
Original Language Japanese

Airing out kimonos
as well as her heart
is never…[Read more]

…”transcendence” (tanzih) and “immanence” (tashbih), or the “negative” and “positive” ways…

From:
http://www.techofheart.co/2009/11/fakhruddin-iraqi-divine-flashes-lamaat.html?m=1

The spiritual training of ‘Iraqi, as of every adept of Sufism, was of course not through literature or even formal religious education. It was through…[Read more]

Psalm 121

I look deep into my heart,
to the core where wisdom arises.
Wisdom comes from the Unnamable
…and unifies heaven and earth.
The Unnamable is always with you,
shining from the depths of your heart.

From: A Book of Psalms
translated and adapted by Stephen Mitchell

Thanks for that.

Pale Blue Dot

Howard Choy at http://howardchoy.wordpress.com/ said,

“One of my favourite poems on how to achieve good Feng Shui of a dwelling is Liu Yuxi’s 劉禹錫 Loushi Ming 陋室铭 (Inscription about a Crude Dwelling). Below the Chinese is my own…[Read more]

Consistency/inconsistency within disciplines is an interesting subject. Thanks for the information, and your view, which makes sense to me–what is special about the right kidney? The kidney relative to acupunture points or the planets in differing astrologies? Science or art?

A broad question is this: how does one determine what to…[Read more]