TED
WaterGeek Bottle
-Just finished looking at my myspace page that I used in high school. I look so young, but at the same time I look the same to me. Nostalgia is quite the bittersweet feeling. I know some people who are stuck in the past, and I can see where they are coming from. Having such a blast in the past, and the present is nothing like what it once used to be. I just suddenly got hit with a gloomball. Makes me wonder to myself if it's because I am not satisfied with the way I am living now, or do I just have to accept the fact that I am "growing up?"
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Dogs in crazy uniforms. Some are cool, some dogs just love the attention will do it, and some are just downright wrong. You will know when you see them.
EASY
awesome shirt
Owl City- Fireflies
Sigg
Water <--- long ass video, first few minutes is really only it
EASY
awesome shirt
Owl City- Fireflies
Sigg
Water <--- long ass video, first few minutes is really only it
Thursday, July 30, 2009
DJ
Today is my last day here at Jun He Law Offices. Boy, time sure does fly by fast. I've been working for 6 weeks now, and like all good experiences, it just feels like one big blur. I have 2 hours to kill before I finnally have to hand in all my equipment and bullshits, so what better time to update this blog. Below a pro/con list of working an internship at Shanghai
PROS:
PROS:
- Having a normal sleep schedule
- Networking/meeting people
- Using downtime to check news/ browse the innernetz/ build up my music library*
- Hustling and battling people to get in/out of subway trains in the morning
CONS:
- Nothing really
*I've been looking into DJ'ing as of late. Ever since listening to different mashup's and attending Girl Talk's concert this past year, I've had an interest in doing my own mashups/finding sick remix's. For the past 2 months, on most weekends I end up checking out different clubs and hotspots in Shanghai. At first, I enjoyed being out just to drink, being amazed by rediculous setups, and pretty much being a baller. Sick of playing beerpong at local frat/house parties in Syracuse, partying in Shanghai was like living in a glamorous movie scene. Anyway, soon enough I began to have a secret agenda(oooooooo) and I went to clubs to almost purely listen and socialize with DJ's. Long story medium, I've been trying to become a DJ and rip shit into your ears. How anticlimatic right? Well typing this shit up got real boring, and I didn't wanna force anything so eff you if you thought this was a shit read.
-BOSS (jeff)
Edit 1: Oh yeah, the reason why I wanted to write this blog was to share some music. www.hypem.com is an awesome site. You can find alot of underground music there. The way it works is it searches the internet for songs from different blogs. It then links you to these blogs, and if the link to download is still up, its yours.
If any of you guys know or like Girl Talk, listen to these guys too, Super Mash Bros.
http://hypem.com/#/track/788148/Super+Mash+Bros++-+I+Fucking+Bleed+Purple+And+Gold
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Freeing yourself from your mind
Old Tappan-- Summer has "officially" started now that I am back home with my family and friends. It's been pretty good so far, considering all I have done is shop, sleep, eat, and play basketball. After reading a couple of blogs, I decided to start one of my own instead of writing some notes on facebook(lol).
Some of you may know and some may not know the quote "emancipate yourselves from mental slavery" by Bob Marley from the song Redemption Song. Regardless, I personally did not understand the lyrics full meaning until after I started reading a book I picked up a few days ago. Below is a direct quote from the book The Power Of Now* by Eckhart Tolle
What exactly do you mean by watching the thinker?
"When someone goes to the doctor and says, 'I hear a voice in my head,' he or she will most likely be sent to a psychiatrist. The fact is that, in a very similar way, virtually everyone hears a voice, or several voices, in their head all the time: the involuntary thought processes that you don't realize you have the power to stop. Continuous monologues or dialogues.
You have probably come across "mad" people in the street incessantly talking or muttering to themselves. Well, that's not much different from what you and all other "normal" people do, except that you don't do it out loud. The voice comments, speculates, judges, compares, complains, likes, dislikes, and so on. The voice isin't necessarily relevant to the situation you find yourself at the time; it may be reviving the recent or distant past or rehearsing or imagining possible future situations. Here it often imagines things goign wrong and negative outcomes this is called worry. Sometimes this soundtrack is accompanied by visual images or "mental movies." Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited. So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it. It is not uncommon for the voice to be a person's own worst enemy. Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of misery and unhappiness, as well as of diseases.
The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. This is the only true liberation. You can take the first step right now. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought patterns, those old gramophone records that have been playing in your head perhaps for many years. This is what I mean by 'watching the thinker,' which is another way of saying: listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence.
When you listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. Do not judge or condemn what you hear, for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.
So when you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence- your deeper self- behind or underneath the thought, as it were. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.
When a thought subsides, you experience a discontinuity in the mental stream- a gap of "no-mind." At first, the gaps will be short, a few seconds perhaps, but gradually they will become longer. When these gaps occur, you feel a certain stillness and peace inside you. This is the beginning of your natural state of felt oneness with Being, which is usually obscured by the mind. With practice, the sense of stillness and peace will deepen. In fact, there is no end to its depth. You will also feel a subtle emanation of joy arising from deep within: the joy of Being.
It is not a trancelike state. Not at all. There is no loss of consciousness here. The opposite is the case. If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having. In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present.
As you go more deeply into this realm of no-mind, as it is sometimes called in the East, you realize the state of pure consciousness. In that state, you feel your own presence with such intensity and such joy that all thinking, all emotions, your physical body, as well as the whole external world become relatively insignificant in comparison to it. And yet this is not a selfish but a selfless state. It takes you beyond what you previously thought of as "your self." That presence is essentially you and at the same time inconceivably greater than you. What I am trying to convey here may sound paradoxical or even contradictory, but there is no other way I can express it.
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it."
Take what you will- a waste of 5 minutes by reading this, or something to think about.
* For those interested, the book is filled with appealing and thought-provoking topics such as the one mentioned above. I definitely recommend this New York Times Best Seller to anyone interested. I end here with a quote I personally love from the book.
"Nothing ever happened in the past, it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future, it will happen in the Now."
Some of you may know and some may not know the quote "emancipate yourselves from mental slavery" by Bob Marley from the song Redemption Song. Regardless, I personally did not understand the lyrics full meaning until after I started reading a book I picked up a few days ago. Below is a direct quote from the book The Power Of Now* by Eckhart Tolle
What exactly do you mean by watching the thinker?
"When someone goes to the doctor and says, 'I hear a voice in my head,' he or she will most likely be sent to a psychiatrist. The fact is that, in a very similar way, virtually everyone hears a voice, or several voices, in their head all the time: the involuntary thought processes that you don't realize you have the power to stop. Continuous monologues or dialogues.
You have probably come across "mad" people in the street incessantly talking or muttering to themselves. Well, that's not much different from what you and all other "normal" people do, except that you don't do it out loud. The voice comments, speculates, judges, compares, complains, likes, dislikes, and so on. The voice isin't necessarily relevant to the situation you find yourself at the time; it may be reviving the recent or distant past or rehearsing or imagining possible future situations. Here it often imagines things goign wrong and negative outcomes this is called worry. Sometimes this soundtrack is accompanied by visual images or "mental movies." Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited. So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it. It is not uncommon for the voice to be a person's own worst enemy. Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of misery and unhappiness, as well as of diseases.
The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. This is the only true liberation. You can take the first step right now. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought patterns, those old gramophone records that have been playing in your head perhaps for many years. This is what I mean by 'watching the thinker,' which is another way of saying: listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence.
When you listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. Do not judge or condemn what you hear, for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.
So when you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence- your deeper self- behind or underneath the thought, as it were. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.
When a thought subsides, you experience a discontinuity in the mental stream- a gap of "no-mind." At first, the gaps will be short, a few seconds perhaps, but gradually they will become longer. When these gaps occur, you feel a certain stillness and peace inside you. This is the beginning of your natural state of felt oneness with Being, which is usually obscured by the mind. With practice, the sense of stillness and peace will deepen. In fact, there is no end to its depth. You will also feel a subtle emanation of joy arising from deep within: the joy of Being.
It is not a trancelike state. Not at all. There is no loss of consciousness here. The opposite is the case. If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having. In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present.
As you go more deeply into this realm of no-mind, as it is sometimes called in the East, you realize the state of pure consciousness. In that state, you feel your own presence with such intensity and such joy that all thinking, all emotions, your physical body, as well as the whole external world become relatively insignificant in comparison to it. And yet this is not a selfish but a selfless state. It takes you beyond what you previously thought of as "your self." That presence is essentially you and at the same time inconceivably greater than you. What I am trying to convey here may sound paradoxical or even contradictory, but there is no other way I can express it.
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it."
Take what you will- a waste of 5 minutes by reading this, or something to think about.
* For those interested, the book is filled with appealing and thought-provoking topics such as the one mentioned above. I definitely recommend this New York Times Best Seller to anyone interested. I end here with a quote I personally love from the book.
"Nothing ever happened in the past, it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future, it will happen in the Now."
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