small satori at work

in the current world, honest is an endangered human trait. to oneself it demands much, with others it ends up isolating...both ways it makes one incompatible with the current world order! but it continues to fetch the eternal satisfaction of being human.

farming is a lifestyle, not a vocation.  perhaps all vocation define a lifestyle at some level, some make us better humans, others make us more like animals and some help us to become better machines.  farming seems to make us better humans.  humanity is strange, it has invented so many technologies, practices and strategies to invoke the animal and machine rather than human in farming. 

centralized systems have penetrated some minds enough for us to make it difficult to even imagine de-centralized systems.

if i see in everyone what i want of them alone, i fail to see what they are, they may deliver what i want and i will never know them, nor care to. being blind to fact, if i am fortunate to get often people who deliver what i need, i may never know my blindness.

human obsession seems to be to define the absolute in relative terms and most relative in absolute terms...time and space are far too relative, we are as close to someone as we feel or as far away, we can be here or many years before or after in our minds...the physical space and physical present time is a small dimension which defies defining the whole. it is highly relative. love is absolute in its capacity to bond, heal, change...yet we prefer to call it relative?!

an old technique when being praised in public i have found to be useful - start to think of all those whom one has admired, been inspired by and have shaped ones thought and actions...any praise to the self is a moment of gratitude to all such souls, a moment to say 'thank you', not to those who praise, but, to those who contributed to the reason for which one is praised. 

greed is wanting more of everything, suspicion is thinking everyone else wants to grab all that one has. they seem to occur in the same persons all the time - turn it from in to out - it is greed, from out to in, it is suspicion...greed is also selfish while suspicion can occur in self-pity or obsession...both as self-centric and represent a sense of inadequacy in a person. contentment and sharing is the other side of greed and suspicion. contentment and sharing happens when the person finds a adequacy in oneself...