Channeling all my energy into something positive

Moby, one of my favorites, has a cool new single: Ohh Yeah

Little Bit by Lykke Li, another good song I heard today.

I'm possibly going to loda at Gallery in Silver Spring for my birthday.

The Capital Science Lectures are free and open to the public, and are held at the Carnegie Institute at 1530 P St. NW. Click on the link for the schedule.

The Eastern Market in DC includes a farmers market, an arts and crafts fair, and a flea market. I haven't been yet but am planning to go on one of these fall weekends before the weather gets too terribly chilly. The website has a information about the history of the market and the exhibitors and the schedule.

Buddhist quote of the day: Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. . . . Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. -Buddha

Taoist quote of the day from the Tao Te Ching:
When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.

note: I am trying to get back to my spiritual side in life with more meditation and metaphysical reading, and hopefully this will be reflected in my blog. The taoist quote reflects my contemplation of duality and non duality lately. I have been seeing this concept in small things in my daily life, that life is always an ebb and flow, like a wave in the ocean, or a sine wave on a graph. Everything yields to its opposite, and without one you could not have the other. Including self and no-self (anatta in Pali). I'm still trying to figure out how to transcend duality (which is one of the goals of enlightenement), if thats possible, or if I already have. And by searching for it maybe I'm actually getting farther from it. Maybe setting a "goal of enlightenment" is all wrong to begin with. Is it already there?