Dying is the goal
Love of God
Give us portents, causes
Ritualistic ceremonies
Thoughts are clear
Each soul seeker guides
Humility, trust, self-respect, loyalty
Beautiful Transcendental Bliss
Distractions will Gorgonize the soul
Sin shortens life
Time traveled, unlimited less lifetimes
Ineffectual
We are trying to be transcendental
Self efficient, effulgent
No one escapes from Maya
But they can be liberated
Natant in the
Nectar of Immortality
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Govinda's Natural Foods
Govinda's Natural Foods has been serving vegetarian meals in Tucson since 1992! The food Govinda's offers is wholesome, healthy, organic, and blessed. The restaurant has a spotless appearance with touches of charming and unique thoughtfulness such as mood lighting, exotic decorations from foreign lands, spiritual literature, a boutique, an outside dining area with a water fountain, a bird aviary, and Koi pond. All of these aesthetics add to the serene and peaceful atmosphere.
Both lunch and dinner are served in an all you can eat Buffet style. Many of the fresh vegetables served in the salad bar are not only organic but are also purchased from local growers. The salad dressings are all homemade and offer a variety of healthy flavors and tastes. The hot side of the buffet contains both brown and white rice, two yummy hot soups, fresh steamed vegetables, spiced just right cooked veggies, and an entree for dinner. In addition, homemade bread and sweet deserts are baked fresh daily. Also, there are always dairy and glutton free selections on the menu for those with in tolerances, and all day Thursday is vegan day!
I eat at Govinda's everyday except for Monday when the restaurant is closed. Stepping onto the property, instantaneously my mind relaxes. Once I make my way into the restaurant area, the meditative music permeating the atmosphere calms my body, and the aromas from the fresh food arouses my senses. I delicately fill my plate with my chosen selections of delicious food cooked with love and devotion and sit down at a table to eat quietly. Literally, every bite taken equals pure bliss, as I smile and chew thoroughly so as to enjoy the savory tastes! Dining at Govinda's Natural Foods brings my body, mind, and spirit peace.
Both lunch and dinner are served in an all you can eat Buffet style. Many of the fresh vegetables served in the salad bar are not only organic but are also purchased from local growers. The salad dressings are all homemade and offer a variety of healthy flavors and tastes. The hot side of the buffet contains both brown and white rice, two yummy hot soups, fresh steamed vegetables, spiced just right cooked veggies, and an entree for dinner. In addition, homemade bread and sweet deserts are baked fresh daily. Also, there are always dairy and glutton free selections on the menu for those with in tolerances, and all day Thursday is vegan day!
I eat at Govinda's everyday except for Monday when the restaurant is closed. Stepping onto the property, instantaneously my mind relaxes. Once I make my way into the restaurant area, the meditative music permeating the atmosphere calms my body, and the aromas from the fresh food arouses my senses. I delicately fill my plate with my chosen selections of delicious food cooked with love and devotion and sit down at a table to eat quietly. Literally, every bite taken equals pure bliss, as I smile and chew thoroughly so as to enjoy the savory tastes! Dining at Govinda's Natural Foods brings my body, mind, and spirit peace.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
FaCebOOkishaddict.e.al.i.sis
Why do social net working sites feed into the compulsive nature of all of us? In my free time I often find myself compelled to worship my computer. In fact, there exists such a magnetic pull between me and my computer screen, I often question whether the powers that be are placing some sort of mind control device within our Internet systems? Sometimes, I literally spend hours in front of my computer. One of the first domains I seek out, interestingly enough, is a site called Facebook. I should not even explain what Facebook is to those readers who do not know already. If you have not checked out this particular social networking site, please refrain from ever doing so only because it is highly addictive!
Of all the potentially educational and inspirational amount of information I could seek out on the world wide web, why oh why am I going directly to Facebook after I turn the computer button on? I could be studying the Constitution of the United States, reading up on the issues in the Middle East, studying the stars, or even get a degree online. Yet, I can not stay away from Facebook? I do get some useful information out of the forum, facts I did not know that are useful for my reasoning, useful for what is potentially progressive, and for what is right and good in the world. Hence, some of my friends are posting thought provoking videos, spiritual proverbs, scientific discoveries, etc. One of my Facebook friends even got me out to vote through her moving post about Voter's rights this year!
Yet, amongst all of the potentially enlightening, philosophical jargon out there, posts of the mundane seem to exist in cyber space in even more prevalence than the truly thought provoking ones. Not to insult any of my "Facebook friends", I mean it sure is good to keep up with all my old friends and know that their laundry is getting done, that they in a committed relationship, and that the tri-state area traffic jam sucks. I am the one with free will here, and I do not have to read all of this trivial sort of stuff. However, often times, I do!
Oh, and the other interesting part of Facebook is the profile stalking. For those who have not put a lock down on their personal information and photos, one can delve through their reality and get a sort of gist on how and who they are, as if reading some sort of novel and learning about a character. Just another player on the Facebook stage! Even the more casual updates, like "hanging out eating crabs and playing pool at Joey's Shawshack," for example, are somehow an integral part of the Facebook social network forum. I must admit, I also add my fair share of posts that qualify for the mundane level! I think that is just part of the Facebook phenomenon. The site covers a wide spectrum of insights.
Now, you could delete friends who do not post useful and insightful information on their walls but what is insightful and useful to one person may be completely meaningless to someone else? Not everyone is going to place utmost importance on politics, green policies, or the middle east agenda, like me. Plus, if you denied some of your "friends" friendship because you did not like what they had to say, you just might well be neglecting some of your elementary school mates or coworkers, for instance, and that is not a very friendly thing to do.
So, Facebook seems to be a addiction that lots of us suffer from. In the format of social media, *addiction* is a good thing, because if we are all logged on, we are more than likely expressing our thoughts in opinions in the form of posts and more posts makes all our walls all the more interesting. I think that is the main reason why I and so many other friends that I know can spend hours on Facebook. Facebook is a popular place. In the real world, away from cyber reality, when there is a restaurant or a local bar that lots of people frequent it becomes a hot spot. We go to hot spots to enjoy it up a bit and to see and be seen. Likewise, Facebook is an active social networking site, filled with available people who will post and who are available to chat live. Activity is attractive and being a part of a social media site as successful as Facebook is fun when so many people are logged on. Facebook is a hot spot! As long as so many folks stay actively involved in the phenomena that is Facebook, the addiction that so many of us have for it will not go away.
O.k. I am going to check my Facebook right now:)
Of all the potentially educational and inspirational amount of information I could seek out on the world wide web, why oh why am I going directly to Facebook after I turn the computer button on? I could be studying the Constitution of the United States, reading up on the issues in the Middle East, studying the stars, or even get a degree online. Yet, I can not stay away from Facebook? I do get some useful information out of the forum, facts I did not know that are useful for my reasoning, useful for what is potentially progressive, and for what is right and good in the world. Hence, some of my friends are posting thought provoking videos, spiritual proverbs, scientific discoveries, etc. One of my Facebook friends even got me out to vote through her moving post about Voter's rights this year!
Yet, amongst all of the potentially enlightening, philosophical jargon out there, posts of the mundane seem to exist in cyber space in even more prevalence than the truly thought provoking ones. Not to insult any of my "Facebook friends", I mean it sure is good to keep up with all my old friends and know that their laundry is getting done, that they in a committed relationship, and that the tri-state area traffic jam sucks. I am the one with free will here, and I do not have to read all of this trivial sort of stuff. However, often times, I do!
Oh, and the other interesting part of Facebook is the profile stalking. For those who have not put a lock down on their personal information and photos, one can delve through their reality and get a sort of gist on how and who they are, as if reading some sort of novel and learning about a character. Just another player on the Facebook stage! Even the more casual updates, like "hanging out eating crabs and playing pool at Joey's Shawshack," for example, are somehow an integral part of the Facebook social network forum. I must admit, I also add my fair share of posts that qualify for the mundane level! I think that is just part of the Facebook phenomenon. The site covers a wide spectrum of insights.
Now, you could delete friends who do not post useful and insightful information on their walls but what is insightful and useful to one person may be completely meaningless to someone else? Not everyone is going to place utmost importance on politics, green policies, or the middle east agenda, like me. Plus, if you denied some of your "friends" friendship because you did not like what they had to say, you just might well be neglecting some of your elementary school mates or coworkers, for instance, and that is not a very friendly thing to do.
So, Facebook seems to be a addiction that lots of us suffer from. In the format of social media, *addiction* is a good thing, because if we are all logged on, we are more than likely expressing our thoughts in opinions in the form of posts and more posts makes all our walls all the more interesting. I think that is the main reason why I and so many other friends that I know can spend hours on Facebook. Facebook is a popular place. In the real world, away from cyber reality, when there is a restaurant or a local bar that lots of people frequent it becomes a hot spot. We go to hot spots to enjoy it up a bit and to see and be seen. Likewise, Facebook is an active social networking site, filled with available people who will post and who are available to chat live. Activity is attractive and being a part of a social media site as successful as Facebook is fun when so many people are logged on. Facebook is a hot spot! As long as so many folks stay actively involved in the phenomena that is Facebook, the addiction that so many of us have for it will not go away.
O.k. I am going to check my Facebook right now:)
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