Monday, March 29, 2010

GM Rice

Ayurvedic Vegetarian Food Pyramid


Vata : emphasis on sweet, salty, sour and pungent tastes
Kapha : emphasis on bitter, astringent, sour and pungent tastes
Pitta : emphasis on sweet, bitter and astringent tastes

Vata : more dairy, nuts
Kapha : more beans
Pitta : more raw food

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010

Humble

Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold:
the holding of plans or dreams or expectations – Let it all go.
Save your strength to swim with the tide.
The choice to fight what is here before you now will
only result in struggle, fear, and desperate attempts
to flee from the very energy you long for. Let go.

Let it all go and flow with the grace that washes
through your days whether you received it gently
or with all your quills raised to defend against invaders.
Take this on faith; the mind may never find the
explanations that it seeks, but you will move forward
nonetheless. Let go, and the wave’s crest will carry
you to unknown shores, beyond your wildest dreams
or destinations. Let it all go and find the place of
rest and peace, and certain transformation.

Let it Go
-Donna Faulds

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Architecture - Symbiosis

Good architects study the place of man in nature.

Here are a few quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright :

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal. (1939)

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Renunciation

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

-Aitken Roshi