Sunday at THE RUBIN

The Buddha; Song of Enlightenment: Achieved is the End of Craving (64:13) Joseph Goldstein

An excellent site below
http://dharmaseed.org/talks/

Today I found myself listening to Goldstein's talk instead of cruising for hours for porn. on the Internet....it's easy to abuse the Internet; it's easy to loose our humanity and our feelings with the constant encroachment of technology. There's too much information!

Went to Rubin museum today with a friend...some lovely pieces and the company was fabu--I wish they had more of a historical overview of the art and more comments on the styles...the information provided next to the many of the pieces seemed more about the names than the styles of the works--sort of a mish mash...

Later went to Key Foods--before I went I did a "Protecting myself with light" meditation; some self-hypnosis therapy and a bit of a friendly chat therapy with neighbor "A"--we commiserated on summer street tension & violence; And the strange vortex of energy that clouds Key Foods at certain times of the day--of course violence can and does happen anywhere--it is always sad...

Key Foods had a murder several months ago--the stabbing of the two girls. A. was telling me his theory that there's such tension there because it's a Jewish owned store and almost all the employees there are Latin and they are resentful of the Jewish Owners. A. theorizes that most Latins hate Jews even more than Catholics. This is all opinion--it would be difficult to check any of these facts.

But tonight shopping was peaceful and went without incident; although the preparation to go there was intense. More like something from a comic monologue than an experience.

I think I am carrying good magic around today and tonight from the Rubin experience--and new found friend "K". Is there magic? How wonderful if there were to counteract all the ignorance and attitude that abounds in the big city.

Before at the Rubin we were in the bookstore were reading a book of Buddhist definitions and under "Enemies" the definition said "There's no such thing as enemies."

Amor & Gracias