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Saturday, December 31, 2011 Being human is a good gig.
Being humane is a better gig (regardless of the lifeform you happen to be).
Saturday, December 31, 2011 
About Pavel Somov
Mindstream Index
- Epistemological Stimulus and Response
- Graveyards of Words
- Informational Constipation
- Gravity Is a Choice
- A Medium of Communication
- Atomic Behavior
- Mathematics is Literature
- Enjoy the Deconstruction, Luddite of Nonduality!
- Мысли В Догонку
- Fantasies of Meaning
- It Does
- Living Rock
- Student of Consciousness
- Congrats On Your Unfocused Mind
- Bias & Ignorance of Justice
- Life & Death of Matter
- Music of Programming
- GMO Film Project (Jeremy Seifert)
- Something
- Teleological Trajectories
- Self-Intoxication of Certainty
- Mind Is Its Own Risk
- Ego-Loss Pill
- Timelessness Is the Stimulus, Time Is the Response
- Emergence Doesn't Add Up
- AWOLMIND
- What Is Universe?
- Because
- HRT is COT
- Oneness Knows No Friction
- Harm Reduction Equation
- Yard Sale of Words
- Pattern Hunger, Pattern Indifference
- Endless Stanzas
- Personal Eternity
- What is Mind?
- Time Is a Response, Not a Stimulus
- Experiential Immortality (Immortality Now)
- Enlightening Safety of Nonduality
- Sound of Presence
- Word Installation # 2
- Self-Interest, Ontologically Speaking
- Factual Hoarding
- Lifework, Unsupervised, Gets Done
- Awareness of Progress
- An Undying Everywhere
- The It of Anhedonia & The It-less-ness of Nirvana
- "To the People Sitting In My Mind"
- Gateless Community
- That Which Senses
- Monk Was Right to Worry
- 7 Skins of Duality
- What You Are & What You Aren't
- Nonduality is Nondivision
- This Blog is Undemocratic
- AR: Industry of Enslavement
- Axiom: AR is DR
- Paper, Scissors, Rock Redefined
- Rodnaya
- Russian Contrasts
- Objectivity Is a Slave to Subjectivity
- An (im)Material Finding
- The Space in Between the "Space Particles"
- Proposition # 14
- Sky Gaze Non-Meditation
- A Horde of Words
- Pre-Installed Awareness
- Proposition # 26
- Nothing New Here
- Geometry of Observation
- Sunday Morning Enso
- Presumed or Imagined
- Freedom is Subjectivity and Subjectivity is Freedom
- Knowledge is Lust
- Distinguishable Yet Inseparable
- Kiva Han is Kiva Gone
- Keeps Going
- Free Radicals of the Mind
- First Person Plural
- How cunning!
- Inertia of Unconditioned Awareness
- Commentary on Sunyata
- Occupy Mind
- Confidence is a Con
- Apophenia
- Imagination of Math
- The Rules of the Wild
- Metacognitive Luddite
- Mind is an out-of-body experience
- Life Data
- Impermanence
- Am-ness
- A Non-Discursive
- Sublimate Not!
- Gravity of Self
- Untie Yourself
- Messenger Lives Another Day
- A TV That Watches Itself
- All Ground is a Path
- Poetry & Coffee
- Bardo of Breathlessness
- Beat of the Moment
- A Locality of Presence
- Many Photons, One Light
- Cosmic Id Continues
- An Ontological Quatrain
- Self-Sync
- Narcissism of Compassion
- Predatory Focus
- AWOL of Consciousness
- A Kiss of Language
- Zero D
- Has It?
- Subject of Neural Gossip
- Mind Meets Book
- Transition
- A Skillful Paraphrase
- Is Your Dream Still Alive?
- Break the Momentum of Causality
- Back from Nonduality
- A Billion Dollar Thought
- Be Well, Be Wild
- Spirited Time: С Новым Годом!
- A Good Gig for a LifeForm
- A Vector of Disinterest
- A Pattern of Significance
- The Inner is the Outer Too
- Analogy is a Two-Way Street
- Notice the Curvature
- A Million Moments Old
- Think It Over Without Thinking
- Point Found
- Calculus of Justice
- Mirrors & Reflections
- Just Batting About
- Subjects Into Objects (and Back)
- Fingersnap @ 2:22
- A Non-Orientable
- A Sample of Astropsychology
- Attempt # 5
- Reprocessing of the Universe Itself
- Each Paints One's Own Cave
- Civilization Is Multicellularity
- Language Is Its Own Reality
- A Reading That Reads Itself
- Consciousness is the Midwife of Matter
- On Presidential Ambitions
- Music of Decomposition
- Transition
- Состояние Само-Поиска
- Morning Fog
- A Plane of Duality
- Paradox of Karmic Self-Determining Circularity
- One-Way Flight
- The Original Face of Facelessness
- Sound of Pantheism
- Beautiful Logic of Adaptation
- Seek and Find Nothing
- Breath of Life, Bread of Life
- Study Namelessness
- Space Unto Itself
- Yes, Leave It As It Is, Again and Again and Again
- The Coming and Going of the Not-Me
- Coordinates of Presence
- Collapse of Dualities
- The Remains of Impatience
- Mirror This
- House of the Moment
- You Want Me To Climb on a Jackass?
- Reality (Partially) Encoded
- How Fact Becomes Fiction (or How 3D Becomes Zero D)
- An Autobiographical Trail of Wordcrumbs
- Pattern Hunger
- Countless Oneness
- An Eye Sees But the "I" Doesn't
- Sambo of Sunyata
- Trans-Knowledge Express: Maya-Anicca-Anatta
- The Sum of All Hunger
- To Quest Or Not To Quest
- 5.5303
- Прощенние Проще Самопрощенния [in Ru]
- Epistemological Detox
- Bottomless Mindmapping
- Неисчерпываемый Компот Сенсорики [in Ru]
- Черновик Действительности [in Ru]
- I Remember When We Used to Sit in Zazen, Observing...
- Informational Storage
- In Bed With Logos
- Homo Poeticus
- Beyond Deconstruction
- Interpretation is a Luxury (Move at the Speed of Reality)
- Evolutionary Mozillas & the Case of an Asterisk
- Life Costs
- On Scale
- Oneness Multiplies Itself
- Made of Matter
- Matter That Minds
- Atavisms of Consciousness
- Epistemological Asymptote
- Sensorium Dead End
- Reign of Separateness
- Karmic Entropy
- Transition
- A Trinity of Desire
- Taste of Ouroboros
- Existential Metabolism
- Epistemological Sobriety
- Jessie J Has a Point
- Thought Safety
- Mind is Its Own TV
- Matter of It
- Nothing to Try
- Towards Something New
- Total Eclipse of the Tea
- Note to Director
- Always Now
- A Flow of Whater
- Meditation = Workout
- From Poetic to Prosaic and Back
- Matter Lives to See
- Anticipatory Missing
- Eyes of Eternity
- Mind Apart
- Notice You
- Psychophysics of Attraction
- Infinite Inevitabilities
- Pattern is Poison
- A Breeze of a Moment
- Walking in Circles
- Transition
- A Case of Quotation Marks
- Sisyphean Labor
- Green Mind
- Prigogine Un-Quoted
- Same Thing-less Thing
- When You Read, Write
- An Old Fragment Recovered
- What Will She Make of You?
- Psycho-Atomism
- Sunyata is Misnomer
- Vector of Inquiry
- Matter Eating Matter
- Comparing What Is to What Isn't
- Eater Yesterday, Food Tomorrow
- Continuity of What Is
- Autobahn of Self-Narrative
- Still a Jungle
- Something to "Hmm" About
- You Are a Neural Tribe
- Omnivore of Consciousness
- Mind Interrupted
- Name is
- Reality Dreams
- Guru-Eddy
- Each Monad is an Island
- Self-Radius
- You Matter Because You are Matter
- Writing in the Pencil of Gestalt
- Mind-Body Disconnection
- A Minute Long Discourse on Discursive Thinking
- Logic Binds
- Understanding the Understanding Itself
- We're RVs
- More Than Thinking
- In Debt of Reflection
- Takes Too Long
- No Words
- Mutation on Demand
- Saying is Believing
- Leaves of Perfection
- Parties Divide
- Sensory Zeroes
- Notice the Change, Notice the Changeless
- A Peace of Mind in a Body at War
- Belief in Knowledge
- The Algebra of Tat Tvam Asi
- A Day in the Info-Land
- Sewage of Subjectivity
- 1st Thermodynamic Law of Nonduality
- "Reality" is Just a Fetish
- LOL (Lower-Order Life)
- I am
- The Nonsense by Which We Live and Die
- Apple Pie Anyone?
- Mindfulness is Mindlessness on Demand
- A Semantic Symmetry
- Tolerate a Cliché
- All Separation is Noetic
- Time is a Gesture
- Assertions of Negation
- Essence Meets Form
- Mind's Eye Regenerates Too
- Sound Logic
- 3 Questions in 1
- Neither a Stimulus Nor a Response
- A Fiction of a Fact
- A Presence-in-Residence.
- Simplicity of Complexity
- Acceptance of Denial
- Last Name is Who
- An Old Line Interpreted Anew
- Science of Subjectivity
- United States of Body
- Scissoring Mind
- Action of Seeing
- Permanence of Impermanence
- Future = Karma + Present
- Does a Whirlpool Have Identity?
- Circularity of Pursuit
- No Difference Whatsoever!
- The Hardest "And" to Swallow
- Hunting Unicorns
- A Train of Thought
- A Matter of Self
- Epistemological Tuning
- Self-Fulfillment
- Gestalt of This-n-That
- Existential Constipation
- E-Health is Psychological Health
- All Intelligence is Artificial
- Existentially Rich
- An Omniscope of Limitation
- A Nod to Existence
- Death is the End of Rebirth
- Reality Worship
- Mind Swiftly Swept
- Mind Moves Itself
- Time is Cephalization
- Mindfulness is Timelessnes
- ABC of Neural Cleanse
- From Neurosis to Nirvana
- You Are Your Own Cause and Effect
- This "This"
- Story in a Glass
- A Moment of Fiction
- Primordial Syllable
- R.I.S.
- In the Wake of a Vector
- Reality is Unsentimental
- Ignorance is Wisdom
- Nothing Subtle
- Nature of Blasphemy
- You-Topia
- Life Recycles Life
- 14 Billion Years Young
- Mental Cutlery
- pro-found is pro-lost
- Janitors of Mind, Unite!
- Hunting Symbols, Gathering Dust
- A Formulation of Incompleteness
- Body Sits, Unoccupied
- Thoughts Without Origin
- Ordinary Disaster of the Mind
- Qualitative Proof of the Unquantifiable Irrationality of Oneness
- Renaming the Arbitrary
- No Mind vs. No-Mind
- Egocentric Cells? Cellular Narcissism? Body - a Social Network?
- Mopping Up Water With Sweeping Generalizations
- Scuba Diving in a Jar of Honey...
- An Advice One's Mind Can't Take
- Dot to Dot Zen (Gerald L. Ericksen)
- Communication is Community
- Am-ness Inc.
- Hard Sciences are Soft Sciences
- Fool's Wisdom
- Relational Fractals
- Axiom of Form
- Wide Asleep
- Nothing to Title
- Informed Consent
- Nothing to Koan
- Heart Sutra Retold
- One is All
- Making Copies
- Geometry of Observation
- Con of Conformity
- A Stone Skips Itself
- Dzogchen
- Have You Had a Taste Yet?
- Dyson Satisfaction
- Happy New Spin to You!
- Read Kohlberg
- Level 3
- Rascal Grin of the Original Face
- Bubbleverse (by Naidra)
- Hotel Asterisk
- Read Spinoza
- Immortally Now
- Before Skin
- United States of Body
- Eddy in a Stream
- Serial Hope
- Waiting on Closed Doors to Open
- No Purity, Just Purifying
- Mind is Bias
- Autopoietic Currents
- Catch-n-Release 22 Times
- Noosphere of Naiveté
- When a Human Tree Falls in the Forest...
- A Matter of Opinion
- Beyond Words
- Love as Antifreeze
- Euphonious Apophenia
- Digital Age Hopes, Stone Age Acceptance
- Splash of Meaningful Meaninglessness
- Same Difference
- Made in Dao
- Cultivate Compassion
- Ego Alienates
- Bio-Cosmic Clarity
- Spread the Spark
- Mind is Byproduct of Breathing/Existence
- Bubbles Pour
- In the Halls of Om-ness
- Sessions of Nonduality
- End Existential Bean-Counting
- Baptized by a Mistake
- Bushmind
- Noise-to-Signal Ratio
- Got Carried Away?
- Perfect Interdependence
- Check Reality Before You Live It
- Life Breeze
- Ride It All Life Long
- Reading "Red"
- Ontologically Speaking, No Such State as Self-Awareness
- Stumbling Over the Stones of Abstraction
- Consciousness is as "Long for This World" as Matter
- WYSIWYC: What You See Is What You Choose (to See)
- Elegant Universe, on 2 Ontological Crutches
- Mind's Footprints
- Moment of Self-Discovery
- Summer Mindfulness Reads
- Pattern Interruption Potpourri
- Self-Loathing is the Beginning of Self-Acceptance
- How We Stay
- Three Questions, That's All
- Perfection: Aristotle versus Buddha
- Threshold of Reflection
- Monday Morning Koan
- Eye and I
- Aiming Your Mind One Intent at a Time
- A Vibe of Ordinary Perfection
- Something About Nothing
- 3 Thoughts About 1 and the Same Nothing
- Moralizing about Morality
- Dogs Crow, Cocks Bark
- A Free Range Mind
- Hierarchy of Infinite Simplicity
- My Name Is
- Zoo Hypothesis
- No Madness Among Nomads
- You Are Of This Earth, So, Be
- Gravity & Levity of Uncertainty
- Fear No Emptiness
- Who Programs Your Mindbot?
- 1 Turntable of Self and an Infinite Groove
- Rascal Grin of the Original Face
- Not Fishing for Meaning
- Mandalas of Impermanence
- Un-bullied by Meaning
- Ordinary Perfection Too
- Krishnamurti vs. Krishnamurti: Divorce of Meaning
- Who’s Flying?
- Once is Nonce: Time Perception, Pain, Mindfulness
- Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed
- Nothing to Get
- In Search of Right Epistemological Light
- Van Gogh's Subjective Self-Objectification
- Fast Food Emptiness
- From Paris to Provence
- Body Pays Mind's Rent
- Blade of Grass
- Banking on Flow
- Build Your Self First Before You Argue With It
- Interrupt Patterns to Anchor Yourself in the Present
- Playing Programmer In Lotus Land
- Standing On Pure Lotus Land
- Dating Brahman
- Medium-Depth Thought by Pashka the Handless
- Lo Fi, Bang & Olufsen, and All That Cheating Jazz (Part 1)
- Reflections in the Lotus Pond
- Mahayana School Bus Goes "Oops-Oops, Lets-Lets"
- "Ahuva Goldstand" isn't Ahuva Goldstand
- "Extinguished," a haiku by Ahuva Goldstand
- Tuareg Wind Carries No One (revised)
- Oryoki Eating Re-Considered
- Ouch: Lotus Blossomed!
- Tuareg Wind Consciousness Carries All Mind-Echoes
- Hello, Eating Zoolander
- Pulling on Binary String of Mind's Gordian Knot
- Light Seeks to Penetrate (by Sam U. Elle)
- DJ Dervish
- DNA of Nonduality
- Do Me a Favor: Pause for a Little Second
- Average Mind Goes from Angst to Om in 2.46 seconds
- Countdown to Same Dynamic Stillness That Always Is
- The Hunt for Red-Blue October
- Hot-Cold/Learning Curves of Knowing & Not-Knowing
- Consciousness U-Rail
- Poetry - Zen Sin?
- Testing Stanzas
- Escheriada
- Super Bowl of Nondual Nonpartisanship
- Metacognition In-Verse
- Reality Isn't a Cliché
- "Lost" in a TV-Koan
- Mindfulness is Ignorance (Bliss) on Demand
- Michael Moore: a Patriot Who's Not Afraid To Look Like a Scud
- Water is Water
- 12 Track Namaste CD That Skips No One
- All Surface is Zero Surface
- Conscicide: Death of Mind, not of Consciousness
- 360 Degrees of Freedom of Dzogchen
- Money is 1984
- 3-2-1: Round Means Relax (a Phenomenological Discovery Reported As Soon As It Has Been Discovered, In Real Time, on Square Space): Urgent Non-News!
- Haiti, Lawlessness, Motive-Focus in the Media
- Mind's In the Way of Compassion
- Compassion: to Understand is to Forgive
- The Gautama Reversal (by Sumeer Chadha)
- Que (Michael) Cera, Sera: a Virtual Re-Interview of a Canadian Zen Master by an American Journalist
- De-Titled, No De-Tails (Chase Your Own)
- Lotus Stonehenge
- December 25th = January 7th
- Tea Ceremony with an Un-Invited Meaning-Pusher
- An Essay About Nothing Important
- All-Wheel-Drive Nirvana
- Certainty is Vanity
- 2nd Avenue Beauty Gets a Pass into Self-Acceptance
- Neti, Neti
- Alphanumeric Haiku This is Not
- Breakfast of Consciousness
- 99 Cent Blowout of Nirvanic Kitsch
- Avatar of Self
- 13 Ounces of Ain't-less-ness
- Infinite Cash
- Inbox Stuffers: Gift-Giving Pattern Interruption
- Open Source Secret
- Non-News Newness of Life
- An 8-Legged Encore of Dubious Value
- Pattern-Bound? Take a Detour...
- Un-Pattern
- A Drop of Pattern Interruption
- Syadvada Lube Job
- Thin Ice of Presence: Meaningless Meaningfulness of Now
- Outhouse # 8
- Is Learning the Beginning of Ignorance?
- "Smart" Thought of the Day
- Face the Stream
- 20 Ineffective Ways to Right Your Levitation Chair
- Quattro of Consciousness
- Knowing What Exists
- Twelve 1-2 Punches
- Advaita!
- First, Un-Seven, Then, Un-Six!
- Are You Your Thoughts About Others' Thoughts?
- 16 Samsara Street, No Zip Code
- A Nine-Fold Pentagram of Indifference
- Po:etry - Pattern Interruption Poetry
- 20 Laps Around "Why Not?"
- The Dirty Dozen of Primordial Purity
- A Knife of 20 Edges
- Levitation Chair # 20
- 20 Winks of Sunyata
- Staretz Ambrose on Mindfulness
- Twitter-Long Formula of Happiness
- Similarity Isn't Sameness
- "It is What It is" is the Only Truth, the Rest is Interpretation
- 20 Thoughts an Evening
- Union of Inner and Outer
- Mind Your Motive!
- Nabokov's "The Eye" is a Neti-Neti Search for the "I"
- Matter = Information = Mind?
- Keeping Cool When Mind is On Fire
- 4th of July - Independence/Dependence Lessons from a Sea Squirt
- Pattern Interruption: a Tribute to 6 "Rascal Sages" (Gurdjieff, Diogenes of Synope, Edward De Bono, Milton Erickson, Daniil Kharms, Thich Quang Duc)
- My Problem with Math is that There is Nothing to Count
- Syadvada/Tentativeness
- Joy of Uncertainty
- Language Fast
- Still Gaga About Gagarin!
- Will Ferrell's Sunday Night Live
- Joaquin the Koan
- It's the Psychology, Stupid!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
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