Sanatana Dharma

I've decided to shift the focus of my blog. While I may occasionally touch upon the topics that I tended to focus on in my previous posts, the majority of my posts will be focused on the teachings of the Sanatana Dharma, the "eternal law", "eternal tradition", "eternal religion". The Sanatana Dharma is more commonly known as Hinduism, but as I've come to realize personally the former term does more justice. I want to make it clear from the onset that I by no means am an expert on Hinduism. As a westerner, born and raised in America in a traditional European family, I may not have the authority to talk about the religion. While I believe that Hinduism is open and should be open to all, I understand there may be parts of which I do not understand fully yet. With that in mind, I will remain open to criticism and suggestions from practicing Hindus and those who are knowledgeable about the belief system both about topics that would be a good idea to cover and about errors that I may have introduced.

I believe that the time is ripe to bring the teachings of the Sanatana Dharma to more people. I am not trying to convert anyone, the choice of religion is a free choice, just as it should be, but I want to educate people about eastern beliefs. Over time I have developed many of my own personal views based on New Age and Pagan religions and I've begun to realize how much some of these beliefs have been influenced by Hinduism. Eastern philosophy offers a depth of wisdom that rivals that of western traditions and everyone should have an opportunity to learn about it.

Children of Men

As I've said in my last post, when I get in the mindset of a task I can go about it for long lengths of time. As you notice there are often a bit of periods where I won't write anything on my blog, and then bam, a long post. Well, in addition, I've felt it necessary to write some more.

Yesterday I got to go to Tommy's over on Coventry Rd. A nice little vegetarian restaurant that I've been dying to go to for quite awhile now. Well, it was fantastic, to say the least. I got the Cee-Dee, which was falafel, humos, sunflower seeds, cheese, and some other ingredients I can't think of off hand all on a pita. Well, my friend Chris got the same thing and not being a vegetarian himself, both of us enjoyed it tremendously. All the food was wonderful there, and hopefully I'll have a chance to go there again to try their tempeh or seitan food dishes. I highly recommend it even to meat eaters who want to try a new dish. They also have some excellent deserts, and their vegan chocolate chip "tookie" was phenomenal, though my parents and my friend didn't care for that as much as I did.

Well, I won't have much time to write in this second blog for the day since I've got to get ready for work. Seems somewhat odd to work such an early shift, but it will be nice since I'll have time to go see a movie tonight. And this isn't just any movie, its a movie that I've been anticipating since before Christmas when I first saw the previews for it when I went to see Apocalypto. The movie, of course, being "Children of Men". Let me tell you how disappointed I was when I found out it was a limited release only on Christmas Day. Talk about not having such a great Christmas. Anticipation rose as I kept checking various movie sites and badgering the local movie theater as to if and when they would get the movie. Then, Tuesday night a light of hope shone as I checked Fandango to see that the movie expanded this Friday. But, all was not well quite yet as the local movie theaters had not yet posted times thus confirming that Children of Men would indeed be playing in the area. Than, Thursday night it all came to a close. Both Cinemarks, the one in Macedonia and the other in Valley View, will be playing Children of Men. Though they only have a couple of showings and the earliest I'll be able to make it tonight is a 9:45 show, the other being a 10:10 showing, I can guarantee you that I'll be going today. After having dreams about this movie, one involving an argument with a movie theater as to why they were advertising the movie but not showing it, my quest to see this movie will draw to a close.

And thus begings the next long wait for the movie I'm greatly anticipating, 300. Still about 2 months away, I hope that Children of Men will carry me over until this next great epic comes to theaters.

With that in mind, I bid you farewell.

Peace and Love
Namaste