Travelsheep

Today I got another email from the Raja Meditation Center. It went like this:

Getting on with it

Worrying about how everything will get done or whether I am capable of doing it limits my ability to respond to challenges. The less I think about doing something and the more I just get on with it the better. Good planning is always helpful, but time spent fretting and procrastinating drains my energy.

They told me they live on donation base alone. I wonder how they manage to survive.

I personally love language and good thinking. So here’s the same thought, but from Bert Hellinger (from his book “Insights”):

Knowledge and Knowing

A scholar consulted a sage as to
how separate parts create a whole
and what differentiates knowledge of the many
from knowledge of  the whole.
The sage answered:
What is widely dispersed becomes an entity only
when it finds its centre.
For what is myriad
achieves substance and significance
only at the centre
and then its abundance looks like simplicity -
almost like nothing
a fruitful void, a calm force
gravitating towards
that which gives it meaning.

To experience the whole
or share in it
we do not need to know every detail,
neither do we need to speak of everything
nor have or do all.
To enter into the heart of the city
we only have to walk through one gate.
Many tones reverberate
in the striking of a single bell.
And when we pick a ripe apple
we need not know how it came to be as it is.
We take it in our hands and eat it.
The scholar argued with
the sage: to grasp the truth,
we must first know all the facts.
But the sage contradicted him:
only when the truth is grown old
can we begin to know all the facts.
Truth which makes us move on
is risky
and untried.

This truth conceals its promise
as the seed conceals the tree within.
Therefore if we hesitate to act because
we want to know more
than we need for our next step,
we miss the chance to grow.
We accept small change in place of riches
and out of  living trees make firewood.

The scholar immediately remarked
that this was surely only part of the answer,
and begged the wise man for some more.
The wise man waved aside this question,
knowing that fullness resembles a barrel of fresh cider
- sweet and cloudy.
It needs fermentation and sufficient time
until it clears.
If instead of savouring it, we try to gulp it down
we become befuddled and unsteady.

Also, wenn man im Schlaraffenland lebt, dann kann man sich sicher sein, dass wenn man sich für ein Gericht entscheidet, und diesem treu bleibt, dass das irgendwie das ganze Schlaraffenland-Konzept zunichte macht.

Traurige Einsicht hier muss ich sagen.

my baby, baby, baby nooo
i thought youd always be mine mine

you all have seen the oil spill pictures from usa:

• beautiful long beaches, and if you look closely or zoom in, you might notice a slight change towards darkblueish or blackish on the coastline.
• a couple of birds covered in oil, about to die
• green BP logos, with a stylish black or brownish dark blue ambiance painted into it

now compare this with the fotos that are published about the china oil spill:

• http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/chinas-oil-spill/ (Including a foto of a dead person drowned in crude oil)

Interesting, isn’t it? Both disasters - by their nature - should look quite the same (only the one in the gulf of mexiko is much larger). But the one in america is presented like disneyland on tv, while the one in China really looks like a severe disaster.

For the ruby on rails plugin / gem, tabs_on_rails, the active tab is usually i span, but i needed it to be a clickable link, and for that i needed a class to show the user that this tab is open.

without further ado, and since there don’t seem to be updates on tabs_on_rails, i installed the plugin (instead of the gem, which wasn’t working anyways) and wrenched tabs_builder.rb to look like this:

      def tab_for(tab, name, options)
        linkclass = current_tab?(tab) ? "currenttab" : nil
        @context.content_tag(:li, @context.link_to(name, options), :class => linkclass)
 
        #content = @context.link_to_unless(current_tab?(tab), name, options) do
        #  @context.content_tag(:span, name)
        #end
        #@context.content_tag(:li, content)
      end

works like a charm :-P

Quite annoyingly, after saving a page, and sometimes, sometimes not, the page turned empty. White. Blank.

After much research and ado (hours!!) I found out that I had a blank line in functions.php at the end, after the ?>

After removing the blank line everything worked again.

I’m not a PHP guy, just using wordpress. I think that’s a major fuckup. But anyways. Delete the blank line after the last ?> and everything should be just fine.