good physical IP address locator

I might just not be technically adept enough, but in the past, when I've tried to find the physical location (e.g. city) of a given IP address, I haven't had much luck. Then I heard a term called "reverse DNS lookup" and went on to find the following site, which makes it a piece of cake:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/

Just so you know.

the facts

the world is matter
even thoughts are matter
and our personalities are constructed from thoughts
and we consider our uniqueness to be based on our personalities
and our personalities are just made of matter
and the world is only matter
but I feel like I'm MORE than the world
I feel like the world is coming from me
and I feel like I am not of this world
but that the world is of me
and that I AM.

from 18-Oct-2002

The single thought that occupies my mind the most throughout each day is enlightenment. Not enlightenment as a state to which I aspire, but rather as a permanent state, or just our basic nature. I think that regardless of what we think, nature rolls right along according to its own will. In fact, I think that nature's will is our own -- we just each like to affix different labels to ourselves as though we were separate and unique from each other.

But the fact is, nothing is separate or unique from anything else, since it all comes inextricably from the same source. Enlightenment, if it is anything, is simply accepting that fact. One's apparent thoughts, speech and actions will unfold naturally from that acceptance. There is no other way.

a good memory

One for the scrapbook, for sure: Weird End To A Meditation Session. I'll have to show Z that story when she's older. It's fun to go back and read through these old entries from back in the day. I have stuff in here that goes all the way back to 1999...