http://brianbrownewalker.com Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/the-tao-te-ching-of-lao-tzu-chapter-22/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/the-tao-te-ching-of-lao-tzu-chapter-22/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:15 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21917   Allow yourself to yield, and you can stay centered. Allow yourself to bend, and you will stay straight. Allow yourself to be empty, and you’ll get filled up. Allow yourself to be exhausted, and you’ll be renewed. Having little, you can receive much. Having much, you’ll just become confused. Therefore the sage embraces the [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/the-tao-te-ching-of-lao-tzu-chapter-22/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/judge-enjoins-obamas-1st-and-5th-amendment-violating-ndaa/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/judge-enjoins-obamas-1st-and-5th-amendment-violating-ndaa/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 14:09:52 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21912 A federal district judge, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Obama last December. This afternoon’s ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by seven [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/judge-enjoins-obamas-1st-and-5th-amendment-violating-ndaa/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/wondermark-32/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/wondermark-32/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:58:20 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21909 ]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/18/wondermark-32/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21907/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21907/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 19:50:38 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21907 Thus shall you think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. Prajnaparamita photo: Hotaru Festival]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21907/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21900/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21900/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 13:53:01 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21900 Profit is something that has no virtue yet attracts people. It makes people hot without fire. It has no authority yet gets people to labor willingly. It has no affections yet makes people never forget it for a moment. It causes students of the Way to ruin their character once they have seen it; it [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21900/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/capitalists-and-other-psychopaths/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/capitalists-and-other-psychopaths/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:29 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21893 There is an ongoing debate in this country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, whether they are good or bad. Well, consider the following. A 2010 study found that 4 percent of a sample of corporate managers met a clinical threshold for being labeled psychopaths, compared with 1 percent for [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/capitalists-and-other-psychopaths/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21889/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21889/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 10:51:45 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21889 ]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/17/21889/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/21885/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/21885/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 12:31:59 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21885 When the paintings are hidden, you will see the Painter. O brother, I will tell you the mystery of mysteries, painting and Painter are one! When your understanding is made perfect, you will never see yourself, save in him. Attar  ]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/21885/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/anodyne-anonymity/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/anodyne-anonymity/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 12:16:11 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21879 I’m starting to believe that large bureaucracies (corporations or governments) are in fact a new form of artificial life. Where we humans are made of individual living cells, corporations are made of individual living persons. Just like individual cells don’t understand why a person does the actions it does, individuals in corporations don’t understand why [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/anodyne-anonymity/feed/ 0 http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/pesky-facts-department/ http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/pesky-facts-department/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 11:30:56 +0000 Brian http://brianbrownewalker.com/?p=21875 …Arms sales to the regime in Bahrain proves he’s more supportive than ever of the Arab Spring and democracy, just as his failed effort to keep troops in Iraq meant He Ended The Iraq War, his unprecedented war on whistleblowers demonstrates his commitment to open government, increased anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world shows he nobly restored [...]]]> http://brianbrownewalker.com/2012/05/16/pesky-facts-department/feed/ 0