Karuna
Title: friend
Gender: Female
About Me:
when i look inside and see that i’m nothing,
that’s wisdom.
when i look outside and see that i’m everything,
that’s love.
and between these two,
my life turns.
- sri nisargadatta maharaj
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that’s wisdom.
when i look outside and see that i’m everything,
that’s love.
and between these two,
my life turns.
- sri nisargadatta maharaj
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Member Since: Wednesday, February 01 2006
Last Visit: 41 days ago.
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Things Karuna Loves
Interests:
- presence,
- keeping my heart open,
- spanda,
- daily life,
- the present moment,
- the roots of the roots of the roots,
- sadhana,
- satsang,
- everyday creativity,
- making art,
- the burn of awakening,
- human psychospiritual development,
- expanding + integrating consciousness,
- mysticism,
- metaphysics,
- wisdom teachings from all cultures,
- the divine feminine,
- tantra mantra yantra,
- studies + practice in dharma,
- buddhism,
- mahamudra,
- dzogchen,
- advaita vedanta,
- non-dualistic tantra,
- kashmir shaivism,
- sufism,
- daily meditation,
- chanting,
- yoga,
- ethical precepts,
- lovingkindness,
- transmuting fear + embodying love,
- nondual philosophies,
- mindfulness,
- transformation,
- sanskrit,
- matrika shakti,
- languages,
- epistemology,
- great conversations,
- silence,
- true companionship,
- the company of children + the young at heart,
- making you laugh,
- people who can make me laugh,
- deep listening,
- mindfulness,
- contemplative living,
- astrology,
- integral theory practice + application,
- really connecting,
- cooking for friends,
- making music,
- dancing,
- touching,
- grooving,
- aesthetics,
- great design,
- gardening,
- creating a life worth living,
- digging deep,
- learning,
- reading,
- writing,
- practicing gratitude,
- communing with nature,
- the ocean,
- starry nights,
- big trees,
- flowers,
- hotsprings,
- ritual + sacrament in everyday life,
- symbolism,
- life as art,
- selfless service,
- servant leadership,
- activism,
- lucidity,
- humility,
- emptiness,
- the principles of conscious creation,
- the laws of energy,
- oneness...
Heroes:
- everyone who puts love first,
- anonymous bodhisattvas,
- dharma teachers,
- mystics saints + sages who light the way,
- really conscious dedicated parents,
- peacemakers,
- poets,
- healers,
- artists,
- musicians,
- bridge-builders,
- pioneers,
- risk-takers,
- squeaky wheels,
- persistent activists,
- subverters of the old dominant paradigm,
- catalysts + creators of new paradigms,
- (r) evolutionaries,
- people who tell / demonstrate the truth,
- everyone working actively for justice across the globe,
- deep ecologists,
- underground + counterculture heroes,
- media activists,
- grassroots activists,
- educators,
- those who dedicate their time + energy to serving the greater good,
- survivors who rise up,
- social entrepreneurs,
- everybody who is living their truth and endeavoring to do the right thing moment to moment especially when it's hard,
- everyone committed to postive transformation
Teachers:
- life,
- universal consciousness,
- the moving carpet i'm learning to dance on,
- my parents,
- death,
- illness,
- solitude,
- aloneness,
- daily meditation practice,
- silence,
- the burn of sadhana,
- kundalini shakti,
- the body,
- ngondro,
- zikr,
- the good the true + the beautiful,
- baka + fana,
- chod,
- tonglen,
- maya,
- rumi,
- jesus,
- buddha,
- my ex-lovers,
- my own heart,
- my family + friends,
- the death of my mother,
- people who've shared their death + dying experience with me have transmitted profound ineffable realizations,
- my college art teacher,
- marilyn frasca,
- my own failures limitations + shortcomings,
- ordinary people,
- anam thubten rinpoche,
- nisargadatta maharaj,
- h.h. karmapa,
- h.h. the dalai lama,
- thich nhat hanh,
- kalu rinpoche,
- chagdud tulku rinpoche,
- khenchen thrangu rinpoche,
- tsultrim allione,
- muktananda,
- gurumayi,
- ramana maharshi,
- eckhart tolle,
- ken wilber,
- lama surya das,
- krishnamurti,
- teresa of avila,
- neem karoli baba,
- sally kempton,
- pema chodron,
- adyashanti,
- osho,
- frida kahlo,
- cy twombly,
- rauschenberg,
- picasso,
- matisse,
- claudel,
- basquiat,
- beuys,
- de kooning,
- marc chagall,
- o'keeffe,
- shahn,
- klee,
- van gogh,
- gustav klimt,
- henry miller,
- william morris,
- people with active high quality creative lives,
- my relationship with my own creativity,
- perfectionism,
- loss,
- hardship,
- heartbreak,
- the children + young people in my life,
- the elders in my life,
- the face in the mirror,
- teachers + mentors + exemplars too numerous to mention,
- joseph campbell,
- marianne williamson,
- don miguel ruiz,
- amy goodman,
- noam chomsky,
- howard zinn,
- gary snyder,
- joanna macy,
- terence mckenna,
- the good doctor levity,
- friendships which have stood the test of time,
- people who have loved me through thick + thin,
- life experience in all its exquisite + excrutiating beauty,
- my dreams+vision+hopes+fears,
- dark nights of the soul,
- grace,
- animals (especially the ones i live with),
- nature,
- the sun + the moon,
- the earth,
- each + every brand new day,
- everyone who is wholeheartedly following their bliss,
- genuinely peaceful people,
- everyone who has surrendered to the fire of spiritual awakening,
- you
Books:
- art books,
- biographies,
- autobiographies,
- diaries,
- the "great books",
- sacred texts,
- books on awakening,
- books on self-development + human potential,
- books on integral everything,
- books on healing + wholeness,
- books on creativity,
- lots of "children's" books,
- books on dharma,
- spirituality + religion,
- astrology,
- lots of poetry,
- the oxford english dictionary,
- various + sundry encyclopaedias,
- the spiritual in art,
- play of consciousness:muktananda,
- i am that:muktananda,
- the story of my experiments with truth:gandhi,
- dhammapada:easwaran,
- the heart of meditation:durgananda(kempton),
- practicing wisdom:the perfection of shantideva's bodhisattva way: dalai lama xiv,
- words of my perfect teacher:patrul rinpoche,
- jnaneshwar’s gita:kripananda,
- pointers from nisargadatta maharaj,
- tao te ching:lao tzu,
- flowers fall:(eihei dogen)hakuun yasutani,
- appreciate your life:maezumi roshi,
- narada’s bhakti sutra,
- diary of a young girl:anne frank,
- translucent revolution:arjuna ardagh,
- prajna paramita (heart sutra),
- life application study bible/new living translation/red letter,
- gnostic gospels:pagels,
- i ching,
- concise yoga vasistha:venkatesananda,
- dreams illusions + other realities:o'flaherty,
- patanjali's yoga sutras,
- luminous mind:kalu rinpoche,
- power of now:ekhart tolle,
- emptiness dancing:adyashanti,
- upanishads (especially mandukya + chandogya):nikhilananda,
- the splendor of recognition (on the pratyabijnahrdyam):shantananda,
- vivekachudamani/crest-jewel of discrimination:shankaracharya: prabhavananda+isherwood,
- vivekacudamani:dayananda saraswati,
- atmabodha/self-knowledge (shankaracharya):nikhilananda,
- tripurarahasya:ramananda saraswathi,
- swadhyaya sudha (nectar of chanting),
- shreegurugeetartheshwaree:kusumeshwaree,
- zen mind beginner's mind:shunryu suzuki,
- anything by ken wilber,
- love:leo buscaglia,
- the alchemist:paolo coelho,
- kama sutra:vatsyayana,
- spiritual sex:nik douglas,
- tibetan book of living + dying:sogyal rinpoche,
- nine-headed dragon river:peter matthiessen,
- far tortuga: peter matthiesen,
- the divine comedy:dante alighieri,
- the four agreements:don miguel ruiz,
- poetry of rumi:coleman barks,
- poetry of hafiz:daniel ladinsky,
- ulysses + finnegan's wake:james joyce,
- poetry of rainer maria rilke:robert bly,
- paint as you like + die happy:henry miller,
- gitanjali:rabindranath tagore,
- to kill a mockingbird:harper lee,
- the secret life of bees:sue monk kidd,
- the moviegoer:walker percy,
- soren kierkegaard,
- carl jung,
- richard feynman,
- mary oliver,
- gary snyder,
- thich nhat hanh,
- tsultrim allione,
- pema chodron,
- joseph campbell,
- marianne williamson,
- deepak chopra,
- ira progoff,
- julia cameron,
- pablo neruda,
- toni morrison,
- anais nin,
- walt whitman,
- adrienne rich,
- robert hayden,
- anne sexton,
- billy collins,
- carlos castaneda,
- oscar wilde,
- tom robbins,
- w. h. auden,
- sylvia plath,
- arundhati roy,
- noam chomsky,
- howard zinn,
- shakespeare,
- winston churchill,
- frederick douglass........... and more + more + more
Music:
- bach,
- beethoven,
- mahler,
- stravinsky,
- mozart,
- patti smith,
- tom waits,
- jeff buckley,
- saul williams,
- neil young,
- cat stevens,
- van morrison,
- leonard cohen,
- bob dylan,
- beatles,
- nina simone,
- billie holiday,
- miles davis,
- dizzy,
- bird,
- john coltrane,
- alice coltrane,
- mingus,
- curtis mayfield,
- bill withers,
- keith jarrett,
- lucinda williams,
- bob marley,
- johnny cash,
- george harrison,
- john lennon,
- bjork,
- ravi shankar,
- ani difranco,
- ben harper,
- michael franti,
- smashing pumpkins,
- james taylor,
- everything but the girl,
- james blunt,
- macy gray,
- elton john,
- elvis costello,
- fleetwood mac,
- joni mitchell,
- beth orton,
- cat power / chan marshall,
- coldplay,
- krishna das,
- nusrat fateh ali khan,
- brian eno,
- imogen heap,
- radiohead,
- david bowie,
- queen,
- rufus wainwright,
- pink floyd,
- led zeppelin,
- rolling stones,
- sly + the family stone,
- allman brothers,
- white stripes,
- grateful dead,
- mickey hart,
- janis joplin,
- jimi hendrix,
- blackalicious,
- funkadelic,
- talking heads,
- steely dan,
- kinks,
- shuggie otis,
- joan armatrading,
- kanye west,
- etta james,
- u2,
- dj krush,
- the roots,
- guru,
- dj shadow..........................motown,
- reggae,
- classic rock,
- soul,
- black gospel,
- indian devotional chanting + classical,
- western classical,
- opera,
- jazz,
- blues,
- r+b,
- conscious hip hop,
- funk,
- world music,
- indigenous music,
- incantation,
- electronic dance,
- deep house,
- abstract beats,
- down tempo,
- folk,
- freedom songs,
- protest songs,
- punk,
- tons o' stuff from the 60s + 70s,
- anything with great lyrics,
- a great beat or a great melody or groove,
- anything live,
- lots of local indie singer/songwriters in my town,
- my friends + me with instruments + voices around the fire at night or any ol’ time,
- i love unique evocative singing voices,
- sexy grooves,
- any music that makes me want to sing shout or move my body,
- any music that touches my soul or gives me energy is good music to me...it's about the total groove...
Movies:
- offbeat independent film,
- world cinema,
- cult,
- art house,
- french cinema,
- japanese cinema + anime,
- hong kong + kung fu cinema (good + bad),
- documentaries,
- human stories,
- 'dark' comedy,
- stories of existential humanism..........kieslowski,
- kurosawa,
- truffaut,
- charlie kaufman,
- satyajit ray,
- wachowski brothers,
- wong kar-wai,
- almodovar,
- campion,
- altman,
- bergman,
- woody allen,
- jarmusch,
- gilliam,
- godard,
- spielberg,
- tarantino,
- ......................... matrix trilogy,
- harold + maude,
- basquiat,
- frida,
- high art,
- spring summer fall winter...+ spring,
- il postino,
- high fidelity,
- adaptation,
- being john malkovich,
- slam,
- it's a wonderful life,
- apu trilogy,
- qatsi trilogy,
- shawshank redemption,
- trois couleurs,
- the decalogue,
- 13 conversations about one thing,
- amelie,
- wizard of oz,
- henry + june,
- crash,
- camille claudel,
- jean de florette / manon des sources,
- city of lost children,
- eternal sunshine of the spotless mind,
- andrei rublev,
- what the bleep do we know,
- ikiru,
- dead man walking,
- magnolia,
- wings of desire,
- babette's feast,
- truman show,
- one,
- dreams,
- city of god,
- baraka,
- schindler's list,
- unbearable lightness of being,
- my dinner with andre,
- american beauty,
- crouching tiger / hidden dragon,
- run lola run,
- godspell,
- true romance,
- life is beautiful,
- love actually,
- i heart huckabees,
- hero,
- talk to her,
- me + you + everyone we know,
- jeux interdits,
- burnt by the sun,
- dersu uzala,
- like water for chocolate,
- annie hall,