Lessons from the Buddha

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Replace family with organization. Lesson one.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Lesson two.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

Lesson three.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Lesson four.

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.

Lesson five.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Lesson six.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

Lesson seven.

Lesson learned. Fuck caring about things when all others who disguise themselves as friends do is trash them.

Left Eye vs Right Eye and Reading

A very interesting article here on an unusual phenomenon noticed by researchers. Individuals who are left eye dominant but right handed have improved visual recognition speed and reading speed when text is placed on the left side of a screen. Right eye dominant individuals who are right handed have no such increase when text is placed on the right hand side of a screen. That is, there seems to be some difference in visual recognition speed of letters if the dominant hand and dominant eye are operating in different hemispheres of the brain.

As someone who is a natural amby, this is very interesting to me. I am left eye dominant. I notice of course that I have a tendency to read with text more oriented to the left of my body - and since I write with my right hand primarily, this would make sense. However, when typing, my leading hand is most certainly my left hand, and I notice I tend to type with text in the center of the screen. Very interesting. I would love to see this experiment repeated with all lefties, or with a mix of left right and amby.

Three. Hours. Sleep.

Thats all I had last night. At about 1 am I realized I was going to have a bad day today. At 2:45ish when I finally began to feel tired, I knew it was for sure.

So, I'm now on hour 9 of my day of running on three hours sleep, at work, and fighting to stay awake or at least not look like I'm falling asleep.



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Another day

So, time marches on. Spring break is over. Half a semester gone. Summer is almost here again. My new car is wonderful - I miss my old car, but I know she finally has been retired because of the dead ignition. The new one is strange, but I am getting used to it.
Traffic this morning was nuts, but I made it to class early - my students were there, but very few of them.
I'm in class, my second for the day, tired. Sleep. Sleep is good.

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