Whenever you're busy obsessing about your success, achievements and ambition, read a bit from the Upanishads. It'll always bring you right back down to earth. Here's my favorite passage:
‘Sir, in this ill-smelling, unsubstantial body, which is a conglomerate of bone, skin, muscle, marrow, flesh, semen, blood, mucus, tears, rheum, feces, urine, wind, bile, and phlegm, what is the good of enjoyment of desires? In this body, which is afflicted with desire, anger, covetousness, delusion, fear, despondency, envy, separation from the desirable, union with the undesirable, hunger, thirst, senility, death, disease, sorrow, and the like, what is the good of enjoyment of desires?
Don't you feel grounded now?
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Songs for an Autumn Day
My new CD, Songs for an Autumn Day will be available this September, 2012.
Here is the cover, which is an oil painting I did of my backyard, about 16 years ago.
Thanks for listening!:-)
-John
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Thanks for listening!:-)
-John
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