Ganesh is Everywhere

Hello. A moment to reflect and post so here I am (again)! There is much to tell you...

My wife has returned from India, bringing with her a solid foundation in the teachings of Osho, some sort of minor illness brought on from rain-contaiminated water (due to intense flooding near Mumbia), and about 400 Ganesh icons of various shapes and sizes.

Osho was a pretty deep character. He had a knack (he would prefer that word!) for bringing the odd truths of inner harmony home in easy-to-grasp terms.

A sample: "Great truths take time to sink in. And this is the greatest of all, that you all are potentially buddhas. It is impossible for your mind to accept it. You can accept somebody far away, a Siddhartha Gautam being a Buddha, a Jesus Christ, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. They are so far away, millions of light years away; they have become mythological. They are no more thought to be real persons. They have lost all substance, they have become pure shadows ― pure poetry with no words, pure silence with no sound. You can imagine them, but you cannot feel them. Hence, although I go on repeating again and again that you can become a buddha...in fact you are a buddha, unaware of the fact. On the circumference maybe there is a great storm, just as on the surface the sea is stormy ― sometimes more, sometimes less, but there are always waves, bigger or smaller; there is always turbulence, disturbance. But at the depth there is not even a ripple: all is silence." -http://www.osho.com

So... I am getting into the Osho teaching on the Tao te Ching and visiting India in my mind's eye with the help of the exellent photos my wife took on her journey.

The next jams are coming up on the 26th at the Flying Pig with the Steve Liberace Band. Come for the awesome beer selection. Stay for the tunes, and more awesome beer. Remember, the smoker you drink, the player we get.

Steve is set with a new batch of tunes and we are officially a GO for recording the next Steve Liberace album at Milk Boy Studios. So... I'll be in the studio October / November working on that project, more info. to come.

Peace!