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How to Make a Mala Part 4 – The Tassel

July 4, 2009 By Darren Littlejohn

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Filed Under: How-to, Videoblog Tagged With: malas, mantras, Tibetan prayer beads, Tibetan-Buddhism

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On display at our cool local bookshop. Wish we had more bookshops!

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Writing and coding lab. Special keyboard to prevent carpal tunnel. Dual monitors, one to prevent eye strain. These were all supplied to me in a special training program. As soon as I finish this book rewrite, I’ll use this setup in Mexico to master Data Analytics and hopefully get a much better income happening. For today it’s all about the editing.

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Yeah the heart needs what the heart needs but the soul will feed on what the soul needs

just remember what contempt breeds and the words that you heed, how everything plants seeds and all your intentions breed actions, which hatch those karmic seeds.
Make moves with love, otherwise everybody bleeds and that’s not what a soul needs.
Now is it?
Walk with love in the place where you dwell, not some marketing scheme or projections to sell.
Rather, be well. You never can tell.
Rise up to the sky don’t fall backwards down a well that you know is hell.
No, be well.
Bring kindness with your words, bring trust w your gaze
wake up and bring your best don’t hide behind the haze.
How you spend your days?
Manage to find ways to relieve the malaise. Send praise.
Touch with Magick and a gentle hand. When you see confusion try to understand.
We all want to be loved, no one needs to suffer
You don’t need to avoid
Or scramble to find a buffer
You don’t need to be tougher
Yeah the soul needs what the soul needs so give the heart something good on which to feed. Let compassion be the thing you breed. Plant those seeds.
Peace.

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They say time is of the essence
But what isn’t?
In the essence of our real nature
All phenomena manifest
Pain and suffering
Joy and beauty
Are all in and of the essence
It’s said that if we recognize this
Contemplate it
And learn to dwell in this awareness
We will remain forever free
May your heart and mine be free right now and forever always
OM AH HUM

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This band made me feel happiness. Congratulations to my friend Laura for doing such amazing music.

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I feel love, in the core of my being for being. And all the beings. My neighbor and I were yelling at each other a couple of days ago over his big, scary dog scaring my little ones. He said he was calling the cops. I said please do. Yesterday he was out there extending the fence like I’d requested. He says, “You like your dog, I like my dog.” I said, “Well I also like your dog. And I like you. Thank you for fixing up the fence.” He says, “OK. We’re neighbors.” There’s been so much grief and so much trauma and loss in my life. I don’t want to have negative energy w anyone. I want to be like it says in the Psalms, and I say this as a Buddhist, “In God I live and move and have my being.” I would replace the word God with, “being.” In being I live and I move and AM my being and I close my eyes and let my heart swell and let my love gush out and let the edges bleed and I look into your eyes and you see the face of my soul and we know, in that moment that this is our moment of being. Be that. “Be like that, D,” I coach myself. In being friends. Namaste. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

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Time is kind and cruel. When it’s kind, it lets the suffering of the past fade away. When it’s cruel, it show us everything we have lost that will not be regained.

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Sorry, Momma

here’s a song I wrote
when I was thinking of you
I knew you’d never be happy
no matter what I’d do

well I knew your eyes
I remembered them
when I looked, I saw
a lover and a friend

I realize that I’m getting old
but I’m sorry momma
you can’t have my soul

she was a homeless girl right off the street
cutest thing you’d ever want to meet

well you’re name might be Sue
and it might be Mary
whatever it is you’re still fucking scary

you know you and I have met before
remember me lying on the floor
you stepped over my body
and left me for dead
with the sound of your voice ringing in my head

I’m dying to create a new story to be told
but I’m sorry momma
you can’t have my soul

time doesn’t heal
and it won’t break your spell
it’s too deep, what I feel
and it left me in hell

there’s the things I’ve learned
and things that I trust
true knowledge is earned
it’s not a matter of lust

and I no longer need to suckle at your bust

I realize that I’m getting old
but I’m sorry momma
you can’t have my soul

I fought the law of attraction
and the fucking law won
you realized I wasn’t the one
but you wanted to have yourself some fun

Yeah, I remember everything that I’ve been told
but I’m sorry momma
you can’t have my soul

I realize that I’m getting old
but I’m sorry momma
you can’t have my soul

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