"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

food and buddism
November 13, 2005 -

one was this cinnoman cream cheese swirl stuff. looked pretty, bands of white and brownish.. tasted f'ing awful. i'm not sure what the brown was flavored with, but it wasn't anything i could relate to.

another was a the salmon flavored cream cheese. you see, i eat a bagle with cheese for breakfast and wanted to try "other" flavors. i'm not sure where they got their salmon flavor from, but it clearly wasn't salmon.

another misguided attempt came from buying reduced fat parm cheese.. you know, the kind you shake on anything and everything.

i love cheese.

this isn't cheese. i knew when i bought it that it would taste different, but i assumed it'd still reflect a basic taste of parm. it doesn't. my faith in kraft is shaken.

one thing that i'm still unsure about is a block of firm tofu that i bought. i haven't quite decided how to cook it yet.. and with my recent culinary boo-boos, i'm not sure i want to just now.

that's silly of course.

in other news, i spent a good bit of time yestserday reading about buddism. there's a lot about it that i like. a bit here and there i'm not so sure about, but the basic notion that what we 'strive' for is within us is appealing. that enlightenment is an inward quest just makes sense to me.

the mind is so much more than a bunch of cells passing chemicals back and forth, and yet at a physical level, that's all a brain is. the mind is somehow more.

personality. leaps of thought. feelings. emotion. the argument of nature vs nuturer.

we experience the world in four dimesions (length, width, depth, and time).. but i see no reason why that's all there is. there seems to be lots to support that notion.

hrm. i lost my thread of thought. i had a way to tie that all up into a pretty related package, but you see, there was this bright shiney object... and i looked to.. just for a moment and my mind went blank. i'd go back and re-read what i wrote, but well.. i try not to do that. i might change things.