Zuky: Tuesday Zen — There Is Nothing Wrong With You

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Tuesday Zen — There Is Nothing Wrong With You

ETA: Welcome, stumblers, to my humble blog-abode! Grab a refreshment, kick back, and make yourself at home under the gently rippling grace-waves of Buddha Vajradhara. Feel free to peruse my photos from Tibet and elsewhere or take in a cross-section of my eclectic musical tastes. Of course we also talk about progressive politics around here and I would be remiss not to mention that I've been fortunate enough to get credentialed as a blogger to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver at the end of August. To support the political and cultural work happening here and at my other blogging project The Sanctuary, just click on the Alms Bowl in the righthand sidebar! I'm accepting donations for the first time in 4 years of blogging in order to cover travel and other expenses. Thank you! Now take a deep breath, straighten that spine, relax those shoulders, and drink in some Zen wisdom...

[ The following images have been scanned from There Is Nothing Wrong With You by Cheri Huber ]

Posted by Kai at 09:41 AM | Permalink

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I think I need some of that!

Posted by: Tom | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 11:52 AM

dropping da (peace) bomb.

always glad you're online, hermano.

Posted by: Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 12:59 PM

Thank you, Kai.

Posted by: Dead Inside | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 03:33 PM

Wow, this is an awesome post.

Posted by: XP | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 04:43 PM

Hi folks! Glad y'all like it! Cheri Huber is cool.

Posted by: Kai | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 05:01 PM

Thanks for posting that.

Posted by: Sylvia | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 09:17 AM

Hi Sylvia! Well I figured I'd post on meditation or something like it. ;-) Hope you're doing well and finding some peaceful space. Take care.

Posted by: Kai | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 09:29 AM

I definitely need to go and find this book. This excerpt alone gives me a lot to think about. Thanks Kai!

Posted by: bint alshamsa | Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 10:37 PM

Phenomenal! That's exactly what my weary soul needed to hear. Thanks for sharing for stopping by South Side Star. ;-)

Posted by: kweenkong | Friday, June 15, 2007 at 06:42 PM

huber is really great. i read "the depression book" a few years ago and it changed my life. i should pick this one up as well. thanks for posting!

Posted by: nadia | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 05:31 PM

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Reflection

Through holding together, restraint is certain to come about. The yielding obtains the decisive place, and those above and those below correspond with it. Strong and gentle; the strong is central and its will is done. This is called the Taming Power of the Small.
— The I Ching, hexagram 9: Hsiao Chu / The Taming Power of the Small

Highlights

Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares in the White Supremacist Cauldron (May-2007)
The tired, the poor, the huddled masses of dream-hungry immigrants coming across the Pacific — like those coming across the deserts and rivers along the Southern US border — have never been greeted by a Mother of Exiles.
Ongoing Echoes from the Women of the Long House (Feb-2009)
The word Haudenosaunee (pronounced "ho-de-no-SHO-nee") means "People of the Long House" and refers both to the architectural style of their wood-framed living structures and to the inclusivity of their society. The connection between the Haudenosaunee and early US feminists is not tenuous; it is plainly documented.
The Palin’ Identity (Nov-2008)
The reason why the McCain-Palin campaign has appeared erratic throughout the election season is that their strategic communications have been conceived and crafted according to the language of implicit cultural code rather than explicit thematic cohesion.
The Whiteness Problem (Apr-2009)
The backhanded boycott of the historic UN anti-racism conference in Geneva by mostly-white diplomats from Western nations is farcical on its face and provides a handy illustration that the great problem of the 21st century is the whiteness problem.
Time to Throw the Traders Out the Temple (Oct-2008)
The Wall Street racket is essentially a colossal debt pyramid which must continually convince or coerce people to feed it so that money keeps getting funneled upward while risk gets distributed downward.

August in Connecticut

Midsummer, the woods of Southwestern Connecticut buzz with bright pastoral magic. This gallery attempts to capture a quick arbitrary sliver of that brightness. Most of these pictures were taken in my immediate neighorhood; some were shot at Wampus Pond; some at the Audubon Fairchild Wildflower Garden.

Ink Not Pixels

The Outlaw Bible of American Essays
This diverse, dense, rowdy, erudite collection of classic dissident writing is full of required resistance reading.
Jean Pfaelzer: Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
The most comprehensive, probing history of the brutal and systematic ethnic cleansing of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest during the Chinese Exclusion era.
Jennifer Gordon: Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
A broad-ranging, tightly-written rundown on the new economic, political, and legal landscape confronting pro-immigrant activists.
Joyce Carol Oates: On Boxing
A sweeping, passionate exploration of the colorful characters, crazy contradictions, and mythic meanings which animate the sport of boxing.
Louise Derman-Sparks: Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach
Based on a solid pedagogical framework and informed by years of classroom experience, this dense educational guidebook is an invaluable contribution to the anti-racist toolbox.

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