Inspiration: Wednesday 16 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Let your mind function freely without abiding anywhere or in anything."

-Hui-Neng

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Sat/Sun 8/9 January 2011:

"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."

- Simone Weil

Inspiration: Tuesday 15 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"The undisturbed mind is like the calm body of water reflecting the brilliance of the moon."

-Yagyu Jubei

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Thursday 6 January 2011:

"Contentment is natural wealth. Luxury is artificial poverty."

- Socrates

Inspiration: Monday 14 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation."

- Lao-tzu

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Friday 7 January 2011:

"Do not turn away what is given you,
Nor reach out for what is given to others,
Lest you disturb your quietness."

- The Dhammapada

Inspiration: Saturday 12 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"There is a soul force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us an produce miraculous results."

- Gandhi

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Wednesday 5 January 2011:

"Truth is in things, and not in words."

- Herman Melville

Inspiration: Friday 11 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action."

- Swami Prabhavananda

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Tuesday 4 January 2011:

"I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows."

- Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration: Thursday 10 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place."

- Lao-tzu

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

Zen from Monday 3 January 2011:

"Do not conquer the world with force,
For force only causes resistance.
Thorns spring up when an army passes.
Years of misery follow a great victory.
Do only what needs to be done,
Without using violence."

- Lao-tzu

March 9 Inspiration

Today's Zen:

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended upon it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."

- Chuang Tzu

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

  

Since I didn't start this daily inspiration until yesterday I will be adding earlier Zen from this year as well:

Zen from Saturday/Sunday 1/2 January 2011:

"The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character."

- Yamada Roshi

Start of daily inspirations

I have been immersed in life in the past few years, and am now starting to settle back into the writing. As part of coming back to the writing I am looking to post some daily quotes and other inspirational items.

For the past few days I have been doing daily Tarot card readings. Here is today's:

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)

  

And here is today's Zen saying from my page-a-day calendar:

"Every step in personal growth needs isolation, needs inner conversation and deliberation and reviewing with the self"

- Joost A.M. Meerloo

Nudism

Excerpts from websites that I'm thinking of using to define nudism in my online profiles:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nudism
Encyclopedia
nudism
the practice of going without clothes, generally for reasons of health or comfort. Nudism is a social practice in which the sexes interact freely but commonly without engaging in sexual activities
Learn more about nudism with a free trial on Britannica.com.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudity
Naturism and nudism
See also: Naturism and List of social nudity places

Naturism (or nudism) is a cultural and political movement practising, advocating and defending nudity in private and in public. It is also a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudity.

Naturists reject contemporary standards of modesty which discourage personal, family and social nudity, and seek to create a social environment where people feel comfortable in the company of nude people, and being seen nude, either just by other nudists, or also by the general public.

Is it because it's spring?....

Is that why it seems to be that some cute guys have dropped by the office.

Just a moment ago a good looking guy came by to see if our office was interested in paintballing. He mentioned that there is an outdoor paintball course just outside of Calgary, and that there was a special price on for the start of the season; here: http://www.braggcreekpaintball.com/

The office I am working in for the summer is rather small, so likely not going to do that as an office event. Also, as this office is small, my desk is close to the the reception, which allows me to see who is coming and going.

Earlier today one of the building security guards dropped in. It was a young looking guy, early 20s I'd say, and hot. He kind of fits in with the rest of the hot security guards at this building.