- Ms. Itchy Boots, Nov. 12, 2023; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Saturday, September 28, 2024
On the road w/ female motorcyclist: India
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Road trip to see superbloom flowers (4/14)
- Disclosure (LA): Road Trip to see Super Bloom: Poppy Reserve. Hockney, Llano, Devil's Punchbowl, Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 8:00 AM | Meetup
- Foothills (Pasadena): Road Trip to see Super Bloom: Poppy Reserve. Hockney, Llano, Devil's Punchbowl
- Nature Center (Valley): Road Trip to see Super Bloom: Poppy Reserve. Hockney, Llano, Devil's Punchbowl
- Want to see a California ‘superbloom’? Fly out of LAX
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| Flowers rise out of the mud and muck. |
- $10 per vehicle
- $9 per vehicle with a senior onboard (62 and over)
- $5 per vehicle with DPR (Disabled Discount Card)

- Meeting point to carpool/caravan
- Sunday, April 14, 2024, 8:00 am
- 201 South Front Street
- Burbank, California
- We will be down at the SOUTH end of
- the lot SOUTH of Olive Avenue bridge
RSVP to this event then CLICK HERE and fill out our Attendees Google Form.- Socialist Utopia Los Angeles Llano Del Rio (la.curbed.com)
- Cooperative Colony Llano Del Rio (lancastermoah.org)
- April 14: Poppy Bloom in Antelope Valley. Hockney, Llano, and Devil's Punchbowl, Sunday, April 14, 2024, 8:00 am (in Burbank meeting point) | Meetup
- May 18 Hike to Bridge to Nowhere, San Gabriel Mountains, above Azusa
- May 25 Yosemite National Park hiking on Memorial Day Weekend! (Vernal Falls, Nevada Falls, Yosemite Falls, upper or lower
- Nov 16 The Great LA Walk 2024
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| California has more indigenous flora and fauna than all the rest of the United States combined. |
- ONLINE Q&A: Camping for newbies, first timers, and the seasoned, Thursday, April 18, 2024, 7:30 pm | Meetup
- Native Plant Garden Tour | April 15-16 (Theodore Payne Foundation)
- CCCCC=C (Meetup); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Danielle John (Eagle Network)
Friday, February 24, 2023
Eva the European wanders USA and Mexico
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| It's good to quickly learn the local language. |
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Driving in India's Himalayas (video)
Friday, June 30, 2017
"Baby Driver" (video)
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Here in my car: meditation and driving (video)
Meditating while driving? It depends on what one thinks "meditation" means (mysteriousuniverse.org).
Can someone meditate while driving a car and not crash? If meditating is "blissing out," or distraction, then no. But if meditating is an ordinary state of mind -- a fourth state, serene, freed of distracting thoughts -- then the answer is an emphatic yes.Meditation is the opposite of distraction, whether driving, talking, or breathing, one remains aware. Even if the mind drifts off, one is aware of that as it happens.
After the ecstasy, the laundry. Before enlightenment, chopping wood, collecting water. After enlightenment, same thing. Meditation (bhavana) means cultivating the heart and mind. This can mean the development of compassion, which can be done at any time, or training in insight."Zen" moment? This is the opposite of meditating-while-driving
Insight (vipassana) is "seeing things as they really are," which overcomes discursive thinking in favor of direct knowing or what is loosely translated as "intuition" rather than cogitating. Direct knowing is not mediated by reasoning and doubting, pondering and being perplexed. It means investigating in a systematic way AFTER having developed serene states of absorption (jhanas, zens, dhyanas) that one can enter and emerge at will.
Be mindful -- simple bare awareness of the mechanics of driving. Be serene -- enjoying the wonder of this very moment without getting lost in thoughts about it. Live it. All space is here, all time is now, so be here now. Drive.
Approaching a car in this way will lead to much greater ease and appreciation of time spent on the cushion even if that cushion is behind the wheel. But what about the distractions? How to remove distracting thoughts?
Ferrari owner in trouble over Web video: A doctor in Japan faces possible jail time after posting a clip of his sports car in action dangerously (but probably very mindfully) zipping down highways.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
India: Berserk bus driver (video)
NEW DELHI, India - A bus driver mowed down pedestrians and rammed cars, scooters, and food stalls in [an hour long] rampage through crowded Indian streets Wednesday that killed nine people and injured more than two dozen.
Police chased the bus for an hour through the streets of the central city of Pune, with traffic officers firing on it in an attempt to stop it, before they managed to arrest the 30-year-old driver. He is being held on murder charges.
The licensed bus driver had driven his route as normal Tuesday, but on Wednesday morning he jumped into another driver's bus and took off, police said.
"He just went berserk," slamming into people, cars, school buses, scooters, and vegetable stands, Pune Police Commissioner Meeran Borwankar said.
Pedestrians tried to flee, with some throwing children out of the way of the oncoming bus, she said. More
OPINION
Road rage? Western-style terrorism from too many Hollywood-influenced Bollywood movies? Too much stress from American wars on Afghanistan and Pakistan (which a half century ago were part of India)? Too much communal (Hindu vs. Muslim) violence? Or is this another Manchurian candidate going off as programmed? We can only speculate.
Those beings who wish for war, conquest, chaos, and fear are winning. Striking random terror into the hearts of urban populations is our specialty -- studied by the CIA, practiced by the US military, induced by screens and HAARP emissions, called for by military training and PsyOps. If it only happened in places like India, who would worry? But it happens in the US almost every week.
Just yesterday a man went into a fast food restaurant and started breaking windows with a metal bar. Police executed him when he did not put the bar down. LA police answered a domestic violence call on a drunk or special needs man and executed him in front of his house when he did not comply quickly enough. These are militarily-trained domestic police who are rarely so much as charged for excessive force. If enough random cases go of bizarre activity meet with uncontested use of excessive force, we have a police state on our hands. And it is justified my the unpredictable public the police are protecting us against as they strip us of our rights. It is like the young American soldier famously said of the Vietnamese village: "We had to destroy to save it."
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Fast Food Disaster
Think it's just a slurry of pur-pose-slaughtered body parts, pus-laden cheese, chemically-treated bread, pesticide-taint-ed lettuce, and genetically-mod-ified tomato [with excitotoxins like MSG, artificial flavors, aluminum-salt, synthetic pre-servatives, acrylomides, trans fats, and plasticizers? Grab a napkin and think again. Top 10 tricks

















