lightside for the win...

just finished KOTOR

surgery... fuck yeah

every time i have the surgery done, i always think of the way life is portrayed in the buddhist teachings and become a bit disappointed with myself.
oh well, it will pass.

life is suffering.
suffering is caused by desire.
to eliminate suffering we must first eliminate desire.
to eliminate desire follow the eightfold path.

eightfold path:

wisdom

1. right understanding:
knowledge with regard to sadness, knowledge with regard to the origination of sadness, knowledge with regard to the stopping of sadness, knowledge with regard to the way of practice leading to the stopping of sadness
-apathy over understanding

2. right thought:
being resolved on renunciation, on freedom from ill will, on harmlessness
-resolved is not a word i would use to describe myself


virtue

3. right speech
abstaining from lying, abstaining from divisive speech, abstaining from abusive speech, abstaining from idle chatter
-well damn, this might be a problem

4. right action
abstaining from taking life, abstaining from stealing, abstaining from unchastity
-not planning on killing people, against stealing, uhh ups

5. right livelihood
having abandoned dishonest livelihood, keeps his life going with right livelihood
-pretty simple, right?


concentration

6. right effort
generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the maintenance, non-confusion, increase, plenitude, development & culmination of skillful qualities that have arisen
-cannot even begin to understand what this means

7. right mindfulness
remain focused on mental qualities in & of themselves...ardent, aware, & mindful...putting away greed & distress with reference to the world.
-working on this

8. right concentration
abandoning of pleasure & pain...as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress... enter & remain in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither in pleasure nor in pain.
-when i get here i will let you know

a new month... chuck norris

Chuck Norris knows the last digit of pi.

When Chuck Norris was born, he immediately had sex with the first nurse he saw. He was her first. She was his third.

Chuck Norris can divide by zero.