A dead man cannot bite.
-- Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey)

Awareness
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.

This mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You don't live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim.

Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

Osho A Sudden Clash of Thunder Chapter 1

Maturity

The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as
between you not knowing that you are a buddha, and the moment you know
that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise.
Buddha is completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals,
have come to a completion.... Certainly, to be full of spring yourself
is far more beautiful than the autumn dew falling on the lotus leaves.
That is one of the most beautiful things to watch: when autumn dew
falls on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real
pearls. But of course it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises,
the autumn dew starts evaporating.... This temporary beauty cannot be
compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look
back as far as you can and it has always been there. You look forward
as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being.
Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to
shower on you. This is spiritual spring.

Osho No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity Chapter 5

"Quick, you must come with me, you're in great danger!"
"Why?"
"Because I'll kill you if you dont."
(Sourcery)

Hi,
a friend of mine runs a small restaurant and wants to professionalize his
IT. Our idea was to store everything in subversion (we use Debian with svn
1.3). We had absolutely no problems with the 2D objects, converting recipes
to ASCII and storing them was peanuts. However the 3D objects are giving us
a headache - the forks and knifes are stuck in the keyboard, we even
destroyed a floppy drive trying to read an apple.
Any ideas how we can still use SVN to store everything?

Konrad Rosenbaum on the Subversion Users' mailing list
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-04/0008.shtml
1 April 2006

On the other hand, you have different fingers...
-- Stephen Wright

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once.
-- Lazarus Long

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The
green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that
grew in the ears themselvse, stuck out on either side like turn signals
indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled
with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. In the shadow under the green visor
of the cap Ignatius J. Reilly's supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down
upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D.H. Holmes department
store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress. Several
of the outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be
properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Possession of
anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and
geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
-- John Kennedy Toole, "Confederacy of Dunces"

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
(Hogfather)

Love -- the last of the serious diseases of childhood.

We have lots of FogBugz customers who have high-priced Remedy, Rational, or
Mercury products sitting on the shelves after investments of well over
$100,000, because that software isn't good enough to actually use. Then they
buy a couple of thousand dollars worth of FogBugz and that's the product they
really use. The Rational salesperson is laughing at me, because I have $2000 in
the bank and he has $100,000. But I have far more customers than he does, and
they're all using my product, and evangelizing it, and spreading it, while
Rational customers either (a) don't use it or (b) use it and can't stand it.
But he's still laughing at me from his 40 foot yacht while I play with rubber
duckies in the bathtub. Like I said, all three methods work fine. But cheaper
prices is like buying advertising and as such is an investment in the future.

Joel Spolsky
"Camels and Rubber Duckies" (on the Pricing of Software)

Healing

You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is positively waiting to hurt you; everybody is engaged in safeguarding his own wound. Who has got the energy? But still it happens, because you are so ready to be wounded, so ready, just waiting on the brink for anything.

You cannot touch a man of Tao. Why? - because there is no one to be touched. There is no wound. He is healthy, healed, whole. This word whole is beautiful. The word heal comes from the whole, and the word holy also comes from the whole. He is whole, healed, holy.

Be aware of your wound. Don't help it to grow, let it be healed; and it will be healed only when you move to the roots. The less the head, the more the wound will heal; with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.

Osho The Empty Boat Chapter 10

Morality

Bodhidharma ... far transcends moralists, puritans, so-called good
people, do-gooders. He has touched the very rock bottom of the
problem. Unless awareness arises in you, all your morality is bogus,
all your culture is simply a thin layer which can be destroyed by
anybody. But once your morality has come out of your awareness, not
out of a certain discipline, then it is a totally different matter.
Then you will respond in every situation out of your awareness. And
whatever you do will be good.
Awareness cannot do anything that is bad. That is the ultimate beauty
of awareness, that anything that comes out of it is simply beautiful,
is simply right, and without any effort and without any practice. So
rather than cutting the leaves and the branches, cut the root. And to
cut the root there is no other method than a single method: the method
of being alert, of being aware, of being conscious.

Osho Bodhidharma, The Greatest Zen Master Chapter 15

Participation

Have you ever seen night going? Very few people even become aware of
things which are happening every day. Have you ever seen the evening
coming? The midnight and its song? The sunrise and its beauty?
We are behaving almost like blind people. In such a beautiful world we
are living in small ponds of our own misery. It is familiar, so even
if somebody wants to pull you out, you struggle. You don't want to be
pulled out of your misery, of your suffering. Otherwise there is so
much joy all around, you have just to be aware of it and to become a
participant, not a spectator.
Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the
night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the
stars and participate in the clouds; make participation your lifestyle
and the whole existence becomes such a joy, such an ecstasy. You could
not have dreamed of a better universe.

Osho Zen: The Miracle Chapter 2

Kyle, you need to stop being such a chicken shit and stand up to your
mother. You need to smack her in the face and say, "That's enough of your
shit, you fucking bitch!"

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is.
Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think
I might have written that."
-- Stephen Wright

'But look,' said Ponder, 'the graveyards are full of people who rushed in bravely but unwisely.'
'Ook.'
'What did he say?' said the Bursar.
'I think he said, "Sooner or later the graveyards are full of everybody".'
(Lords and Ladies)

Sharing

As you move above to the fourth center - that is the heart - your
whole life becomes a sharing of love. The third center has created the
abundance of love. By reaching to the third center in meditation, you
have become so overflowing with love, with compassion, and you want to
share. It happens at the fourth center, the heart.
That's why even in the ordinary world people think love comes out of
the heart. For them it is just hearsay, they have heard it; they don't
know it because they have never reached to their heart. But the
meditator finally reaches to the heart. As he has reached to the
center of his being - the third center - suddenly an explosion of love
and compassion and joy and blissfulness and benediction has arisen in
him with such a force that it hits his heart and opens the heart. The
heart is just in the middle of all your seven centers - three centers
below, three centers above. You have come exactly to the middle.

Osho The Search: Talks on the Ten Bulls of Zen Chapter2

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
-- Albert Einstein

[War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human
beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we
can stop it. We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going
to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to
kill today!
-- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0

If we want to have any kind of confidence that the hash is really
unbreakable, we should make it not just longer than 160 bits, we should
make sure that it's two or more hashes, and that they are based on totally
different principles.

And we should all digitally sign every single object too, and we should
use 4096-bit PGP keys and unguessable passphrases that are at least 20
words in length. And we should then build a bunker 5 miles underground,
encased in lead, so that somebody cannot flip a few bits with a ray-gun,
and make us believe that the sha1's match when they don't. Oh, and we need
to all wear aluminum propeller beanies to make sure that they don't use
that ray-gun to make us do the modification _ourselves_.

Linus Torvalds in http://lwn.net/Articles/132513/

It's a sad and terrible thing that high-born folk really have thought that
the servants would be totally fooled if spirits were put into decanters
that were cunningly labelled *backwards*. And also throughout history the
more politically conscious butler has taken it on trust, and with rather
more justification, that his employers will not notice if the whisky is
topped up with eniru.
(Hogfather)

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
(Hogfather)

"Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave," said
Vorbis.
"So I understand," said the Tyrant. "I imagine that fish have no
word for water."
(Small Gods)

Guilt

This moment!...this herenow...is forgotten when you start thinking in
terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose
contact with the paradise you are in. This is one of the most
liberating approaches: it liberates you right now! Forget all about
sin and forget all about saintliness; both are stupid. Both together
have destroyed all the joys of humanity. The sinner is feeling guilty,
hence his joy is lost. How can you enjoy life if you are continuously
feeling guilty? if you are continuously going to the church to confess
that you have done this wrong and that wrong? And wrong and wrong and
wrong...your whole life seems to be made of sins. How can you live
joyously? It becomes impossible to delight in life. You become heavy,
loaded. Guilt sits on your chest like a rock, it crushes you; it does
not allow you to dance. How can you dance? How can guilt dance? How
can guilt sing? How can guilt love? How can guilt live? So the one who
thinks he is doing something wrong is guilty, burdened, dead before
death, has already entered into the grave.

Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 3

Laziness

When you are lazy, it is a negative taste: you simply feel that you
have no energy, you simply feel dull; you simply feel sleepy, you
simply feel dead. When you are in a state of non-doing then you are
full of energy--it is a very positive taste. You have full energy,
overflowing. You are radiant, bubbling, vibrating, You are not sleepy,
you are perfectly aware. You are not dead--you are tremendously
alive....There is a possibility the mind can deceive you: it can
rationalize laziness as non-doing. It can say, "I have become a Zen
master," or, "I believe in Tao"--but you are not deceiving anybody
else. You will be deceiving only yourself. So be alert.

Osho A Sudden Clash of Thunder Chapter 8

Schizophrenia
Man is split. Schizophrenia is a normal condition of man--at least now. It may not have been so in the primitive world, but centuries of conditioning, civilization, culture and religion have made man a crowd--divided, split, contradictory.... But because this split is against his nature, deep down somewhere hidden the unity still survives. Because the soul of man is one, all the conditionings at the most destroy the periphery of the man. But the center remains untouched--that's how man continues to live. But his life has become a hell. The whole effort of Zen is how to drop this schizophrenia, how to drop this split personality, how to drop the divided mind of man, how to become undivided, integrated, centered, crystallized. The way you are, you cannot say that you are. You don't have a being. You are a marketplace--many voices. If you want to say 'yes', immediately the 'no' is there. You cannot even utter a simple word 'yes' with totality.... In this way happiness is not possible; unhappiness is a natural consequence of a split personality.

Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang Chapter 3

[Pulls out a phaser] Stop right there. I have here the only working phaser ever
built. It was fired only once, to keep William Shatner from making another album.

-- Comic Book Guy
Treehouse of Horror X: Desperately Xeeking Xena (Episode BABF01)

A dead man cannot bite.
-- Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
parts dead.
-- Bertrand Russell

He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.
-- Scottish proverb.

Rachel: No no no, wait, I wanna see what happens [in the show].

Joey: Uh, I get Leslie out of the coma and then we make out.

Rachel: Well how can that be, you were just kissing Sabrina?

Monica: Rachel, it's a world where Joey is a neuro-surgeon.

Excerpt from the TV Show "Friends"

"Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better
for you and me."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather:
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
And gather it all in a bunch of heather,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair/Canticle"

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made
you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
(Hogfather)

And now for flame-time!

Adi, you dunderhead. You are old enough and experienced enough to know
that your sodding and idiotic waste of bandwidth by quoting my message
whole to add the above answer was wasteful, immoral and punishable by
eternal singing of Hava Nagila in the company with Hanale Sharon.

-- Marc A. Volovic on linux-il, 2 Jan, 2002

"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of
empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
--- Calvin

* "I had a great idea this morning, but I didn't like it."
--- Samuel Goldwyn

A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to protect
her.

-- McCoy, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.3

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

The gaffer says something longer and more complicated. After a while, Waterhouse (now wearing his cryptoanalyst hat, searching for meaning midst apparent randomness, his neural circuits exploiting the redundancies in the signal) realizes that the man is speaking heavily accented English.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy; but to be angry with the right
person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose
and in the right way -- that is not easy.
-- Aristotle

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
-- Snoopy

PISSING DOWN ANY ONE'S BACK. Flattering him.

The recruiters-who-use-grep, by the way, are ridiculed here, and for good
reason. I have never met anyone who can do Scheme, Haskell, and C pointers who
can't pick up Java in two days, and create better Java code than people with
five years of experience in Java, but try explaining that to the average HR
drone.

Joel Spolsky, "The Perils of JavaSchools"
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html

Ross: [to Ben] I know, I know. Everybody, there's someone I'd like you to
meet. Yeah. This is Ben. Ben, this is everybody.

Phoebe: Susan, he looks just like you.

Susan: Thanks.

Excerpt from the TV Show "Friends"

Rachel: Well, I have to be, I don't really have a choice, I mean, you know,
I could look at the bright side, I get two birthday parties and two
birthday cakes.

Chandler: Well, actually just one birthday flan.

Rachel: What?

Chandler: It's a traditional Mexican custard dessert...Look talk to Monica,
she's on the food committee.

Excerpt from the TV Show "Friends"

Knuth is not God! God has already released TeX version 4.0.

Shlomi Fish