Random Linkage: Behind Skeletor, Life Release,Thich Nhat Hanh & more Nat

Hey there.

How you doing? All good?

Despite my best efforts and good intentions, I am writing here less frequently. Also, despite my best efforts and good intentions, I have fallen behind with the online French class that I’m currently enrolled in. Annnnnnd, despite my best efforts and good intentions, I have fallen behind with reading a zillion great new books and posting reviews/comments on them over here at the old blog.

So I will try to buy time with some gold ol’ Random Linkage to give you fine eminations something to read.

• I’ve always wondered who and what was behind the brilliant ‘Skeletor is Love’ and now I know.

• I’ve been invited to attend a Buddhist life release ceremony (drop me a line Montrealers if you are interested in attending either out of merry merit making or out of pure curiousity) so I wanted to re-post this article from the Shambhala Sun’s SunSpace by Konchog Norbu on ‘Making the Buddhist practice of “life release” more environmentally sound: A birder’s view’. Share it with your sangha mates.
• Buddhist Humour? Sure. Why not? (via Buddhism Now)

Perhaps, then, our spiritual practice is the discipline of real humour. Through meditation and other spiritual practices we have an opportunity to become aware of that essential freedom from conditioning, and, of course, we will also see the humour in our failure to realize and sustain that freedom in our daily lives!

• Here’s a video of Thich Nhat Hanh answering the essential question “How can I fight the injustices of this world without being consumed with anger, bitterness, outrage and resentment?”