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Riding the Winds

There is a type of music that lets your mind ride on its tail-winds. Up and down, slower, faster, a pause… Slightly unpredictable, so you cannot drift into a thinking mode; you do not have much choice but follow its movement. Classical music is sometimes like that; jazz is even closer to what I mean. My daughter made me listen to the music of St. VIncent in the car the other day. Although I cannot say that I liked it much, I appreciated its musical patterns, the pauses and movements through which small patches of emptiness can be glimpsed. The mind can glide on its winds rather than ride on the winds of its own thoughts.
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Some words of politics


Thus, whereas religion requires that people must improve internally and morally, and accordingly generally maintains a certain realism and patience about the speed of such transformation (over a period of one or a number of lives), political ideology, acknowledging no inner life and no future lives, demands immediate obedience. It is thus willing to punish ideological non- conformity severely. It categorises people into sinner and saved – now re-christened ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ – just as swiftly and confidently as any old-time Puritan preacher. It polices all signs and manifestations of ideological non-conformity with the zeal of any Inquisitor. Lama Jampa Thaye Buddhism in Exile

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