Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Kathmandu Friends

One of the beautiful aspects of Kathmandu is the constant flow of beautiful people you come across. In the sketch above, Shantiwale Tokyo Baba from around Badrinath. He spent months sitting at the Berlin Wall before it was finally torn down.

My experiences in the Vaishnava world led me to an almost xenophobic state, ready to give up my hope in humanity. My experiences here have revitalized the hope, rekindling a spark of trust in a fundamental potential for goodness.

The curious can skim over my FaceBook KTM Friends album for a few memories from this part of the world.

Breakfast Babas 3 - Action Jackson

A true badass Breakfast Baba needs to know when it's time to play some jazz and to kick some ass! Trolls and stalkers, be aware of the massive kung-fu power of the Breakfast Babas! Grrroarrrrrhhhh... Of the Iron Zion Lion school. Bruce Lee would have been proud of us.

Now available: Breakfast Babas Go Action Jaction in desktop size!

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Neurotic Background Choir

In Memoriam
Herr Trollson og Fru Stalkerson
og støjende familie

1980-2008 - Rest in Peace
it was a genuine pleasure to know you...


there has to be a neurotic background choir
immersed in resentment, cynicism and pessimism
confined in prisons of their own design.

deep pain dwells within their hearts
as they are desperately lashing out
in a hopeless, consuming quest for solace.
a life of freedom is never found in prisons!

one wonders, did some people go out for a cigarette
when god distributed joy and freedom at the dawn of creation;
told us to live and love in peace and harmony...

endless grumbling and moaning echoing
from crowded, dark cells of suppressed humanity
deprived of a sense of fundamental goodwill.

it really doesn't have to be that way —
but i suppose we all have our own destinies...

bodhicitta only dawns after a journey to the dark side;
a deep plunge into the darkest abyss of hell...
for only in hell is heaven's need understood
and only knowers of heaven and hell journey into nonduality
a tranquil base for unconditional joy and benevolence.

greetings to you, fair men and ladies of the neurotic choir!
i relish the moments of experience and exchange with you
brimming with curiosity, the scientist of the human mind that I am.

you haunt me, you fascinate me;
i have ran out of tears for you, i only watch
in awe of the deep sense of emptiness
i sense in your cacophonic melodies...

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Strange Meetings

walking down a west coast alley
i meet again that pretty girl in a miniskirt
seen her before, yes I have, yes i have
but i shouldn't talk, they told me it's no-no-good...

she's like really profound and cute
a shock leading to a grave brain disorder
i turn my back and walk quickly away
falling into amnesia, memories in oblivion...

years passed, water flowed under bridge
she went south, i traveled far-away east
walked through my hell, she walked beyond hers
but the winds of destiny are bizarre indeed...

strange meetings over strange media
rediscoveries, treasures long lost and buried
vivid, warm connections in deep heart strata
new sweet beginnings to old fairy tales...

wandering in green forests pristine and deep
crossing the ocean on pink river whales
mixing the stars into a gourmet cosmic salad
hello, my hobbit princess is here again!

Breakfast Babas 2 - Fixing Up Stuff

A real legit Breakfast Baba always has a good stock of tapes, glues, tools and utensils handy. You never know when stuff needs to be fixed up.

Now available: Breakfast Babas Fixing Up Stuff in desktop size!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Breakfast Babas


Breakfast Babas
at the Punjabi Dhaba...


A man needs to know when it's time for a good salad. Tomato, ladyfingers, chili, lemon, bellpepper, rock salt, herbs and super seeds... And a full export pack of Parle-G biscuits, the classical accompaniment for a luminous and energetic day.

Now available: Breakfast Babas in desktop size!

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Tofu Salad

In our series of highly irrelevant and irreverent blogs... How to avoid the banality of buying stale samosas for an easy evening in the office.

To make an excellent, light but tasty dinner for two, get hold of:
  1. 1/2 kilo of tomatos
  2. 1 medium-size cucumber
  3. 1 bellpepper
  4. 250g of tofu
Total budget at the sabjiwalla at Kshetrapati circle: 40 NRS (0.4 euros). Cut the vegetables and the tofu into crunchy medium-size pieces, throw in a pinch of salt, and optionally black pepper and some lemon juice. Mix tenderly to avoid breaking the raw tofu chunks.

Tofu, the rich and ancient food of the gods

If you remember to keep a plate with you, you can opt for a more dignified dining style instead of the rustic mix-it-in-and-eat-out-of-the-plastic-bag method... And if your friend actually shows up, it adds to the delight of the evening.

(Well, at least I had her hard drive here on my desk, filled up to brim with goodies... Shine On You Crazy Diamond... Man, it's been a small eternity since any of that was played in the house!)

A proper dessert is a crucial aspect of a successful dinner

For dessert, roll a super joint. Er, I mean, roll some super laddus. The meal needs to be crowned with rich dessert flavor for its effect to last the entire evening. Bon appetit!

A friend told me yesterday that people still see me largely as saintly... 'twas a tad bit amusing. It's like I have over a dozen alter egos living in people's minds across the world. Perhaps a series of blogs with questionable content will help amend things.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Pretty Woman

Pretty woman, walking down the street
Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet...
It's a pity the world wasn't made of neuters. Would have solved many problems. Instead, we have to keep coping with the cumbersome men and women business. Ick.

After the start of my grand journey towards the unknown, some friends have been trying to keep track of my moves. Poor saps, they and their guesswork, juicy visions patched together from data that is fragmented at best.

One of them said somewhere else the other day:
"Let then also Ananda's desires be fulfilled. Quite a buzz is indeed going on at Facebook, girl after girl, each prettier than the other, seem to already be flocking around him."
I suppose that is true. Dozens of pretty girls (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) have stopped by recently to check out the new life of this Indiana Jones of Spirituality (huh?) of Finland fame.
Pretty woman, look my way
Pretty woman, say you'll stay with me...
So do I like women? Yea, I suppose I do like women. In contrast with men, I like them a great deal in fact. The raving, brutal male sexual impulse and the psychological distortions it gives rise to repel me, indeed I find them repulsive, the ego and the cunning selfishness it emanates.

My years of intense meditative sadhana in the cosmic drama of Radha and Krishna, conceiving of myself as a young maiden in their midst, in this heaven-world of Goloka, gave me much time to contemplate on my feminine side, planting roots of psychological balance and broader insight into human nature.

It is perhaps owing to this, in part it is anyway, that I often find women having a much richer and more profound spiritual take on reality. An emphatic touch with an abundance of heart, not just the cold logic frozen philosopher's brain. My current inner core is much more at home with the former of the couplet, grown away from the cold, intellectual ego I once clad myself in, one that many of you are sadly familiar with.

So yes, I do like women, and for many reasons. Ask me about it.

Those pretty girls at Facebook are, by the way, 95% old friends either from my school days or otherwise from almost a decade back from the Krishna circles of Finland. And I have a pretty little sister, too, cute like a strawberry. I don't think any of my girlfriends have registered at Facebook yet.
What do I see
Is she walking back to me
Yeah, she's walking back to me
Oh, oh, Pretty woman...
Aho! Pretty woman...