Gabriel Gudding's Blog, page 8

sour adversity

Sukarāni asādhūni,
attano ahitāni ca.
Yaṃ ve hitañca sādhuñca,
taṃ ve paramadukkaraṃ.

Easy to do are thingsthat are bad and harmful to oneself.But exceedingly difficult to doare things that are good and beneficial.
Dhammapada 12.163
L et me em
b ra ce t
h ee so ur ad
ver sit
y

fo r w i s e m
en sa y it is t
he w ise st co
u r s e.

The idea that depression and other mental health conditio...

The idea that depression and other mental health conditions are caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that it seems almost sacrilegious to question it....
It is, after all, a neat theory. It takes a complex and heterogeneous condition (depression) and boils it down to a simple imbalance of two to three neurotransmitters (out of more than 100 that

Sukarāni asādhūni,attano ahitāni ca.Yaṃ ve hitañca sādh...

Sukarāni asādhūni,
attano ahitāni ca.
Yaṃ ve hitañca sādhuñca,
taṃ ve paramadukkaraṃ.

Easy to do are thingsthat are bad and harmful to oneself.But exceedingly difficult to doare things that are good and beneficial.
Dhammapada 12.163
L et me em
b ra ce t
h ee so ur ad
ver sit
yfo r w i s e m
ens a yit ist
hew ise st co
u r s e.

this man helped me like it here

February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010
"He was truly a nice man. A very caring, naturally funny guy in day-to-day life, not just because someone wrote something on paper for him. He was a very tender-hearted man. He was one of my best friends and I loved him dearly. I'll miss him greatly."

eating animals

fora only lets one embed the first portion of talks. these are the introductory comments to a talk given by jonathan safran foer about the factory farming of animals, and though the introductory comments shown above by andrew sullivan (6:00 - 10:00) are excellent, you can go to the full talk here and choose chapter 7 if nothing else. chpt 7 is the crux of foer's argument. (by the way, andrew is

marie-claire alain

Another of the Schübler chorales, like the below but by another organist. I ran across this organist in a cd I bought when I was 21 or so. Not sure what it is about these chorales. Unlike "Wo soll ich fliehen hin," which is sadder than this, there is a sweetness, a happy kindness to this one. The title is something like come now, deity, from heaven to us here-under.

maria-claire alain

buy nothing day

Most days for me are buy nothing days but Friday Nov 25 also really buy nothing cheerfully and in unison.

This is my friend. She is a fox. She is very dear. She li...

This is my friend. She is a fox. She is very dear. She lives on campus. Here she is summer before last beneath the windows of the old library, Williams Hall. Photo Daniel Enomoto. I've seen little foxes elsewhere in Normal, but never in daylight. Once walking on the sidewalk outside the Norfel apartments on Fell avenue, once outside the Wittenberg Lutheran Youth Center. I've seen many of them

na paro paraṃ nikubbetha

nātimaññetha katthaci naṃ kañci byārosanā paṭighasaññā nāññamaññassa dukkhamiccheyya