"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.
Oh, man. I hope my friends in Virginia are paying attention:
"This may well be the state that decides who the next president is."
-- Mitt Romney,
to supporters in coastal Portsmouth, VA. Virginia is quickly becoming the hottest new battleground in the race for the White House.
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"How can the sale of bananas be more tightly controlled than the sale of machine guns?"
-- Anna MacDonald, head of Oxfam's control arms campaign, pressing for a new international arms trade treaty after an Oxfam report claimed billions of dollars worth of weapons and ammunition have been bought by countries subject to arms embargoes ~~~