09-22-2005, 01:29 AM
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Imagine being in Galveston back in 1900 when that big one hit. No weather reports. Nothing but a goddamn farmers almanac. Guys probably looking outside and saying, "Man, looks like it might rain tonight".
in fact, before the galveston disaster, there was a meteorologist who saw it ocming
he told everyone not to worry, it was no big deal
true story, there is a book about it
I realise that I have a past to break with--an accumulation of inertia, wrong, foolishness, rot, junk. A great need of clarification, of mindfulness, or rather, of no mind. A need to return to genuine practice, right effort. Need to push on the great doubt. Need for the spirit. Hang on to the clear light.
Thomas Merton