{"id":411,"date":"2009-01-16T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=411"},"modified":"2018-03-26T19:46:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T02:46:36","slug":"just-another-bodhisatva-on-the-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2009\/01\/16\/just-another-bodhisatva-on-the-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another bodhisatva on the lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-12kvUzB6rA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">D<\/span>harma.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the damnedest thing.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mix metaphysical and cultural paradigms here.<\/p>\n<p>We are born into a life we have no business pretending to understand, and, if we spend too much time pondering <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">that<\/span>, we either drive ourselves crazy or become paralyzed, frozen in the amber of our own, absurd ontological dialectic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" style=\"border-style: dotted; margin: 20px; width: 240px; float: right; font-size: 12px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 10px;\"><b><i>Angel&#8217;s Vacation<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-12kvUzB6rA\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: arial;\">more video options: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/AngelsVacationTkMajorHcagfvom1t\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 10px;\">\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-411-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TKMajor_AngelsVacation_AYoS_2009-01-11_HCAGFVOM1T\/AngelsVacationAudioFromVid-2009-01-11_HCAGFVOM1T.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TKMajor_AngelsVacation_AYoS_2009-01-11_HCAGFVOM1T\/AngelsVacationAudioFromVid-2009-01-11_HCAGFVOM1T.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TKMajor_AngelsVacation_AYoS_2009-01-11_HCAGFVOM1T\/AngelsVacationAudioFromVid-2009-01-11_HCAGFVOM1T.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TKMajor_AngelsVacation_AYoS_2009-01-11_HCAGFVOM1T\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">more stream &amp; DL options<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><i>previous versions<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2005\/10\/angels-vacation.html\">Sunday, October 23, 2005<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2006\/07\/when-they-tell-you-its-time-to-leave.html\">Tuesday, July 11, 2006<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2006\/07\/one-more-fugitive-angel.html\">Sunday, July 16, 2006<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2007\/10\/on-forty-first-day.html\">Saturday, October 06, 2007<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like a deer, you can stare, transfixed, into the oncoming light of something you can&#8217;t decide is destiny or chaos or both&#8230; surrendering with the thought that, whatever it is, it&#8217;s probably bigger than you.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can act like a human.<\/p>\n<p>And run like hell.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><i>previous versions<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2005\/10\/angels-vacation.html\">Sunday, October 23, 2005<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2006\/07\/when-they-tell-you-its-time-to-leave.html\">Tuesday, July 11, 2006<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2006\/07\/one-more-fugitive-angel.html\">Sunday, July 16, 2006<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2007\/10\/on-forty-first-day.html\">Saturday, October 06, 2007<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">lyrics <\/span><\/span><b><i><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Angel&#8217;s Vacation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He tried to do what was right<br \/>\nbut it always turned out wrong<br \/>\nthe heavenly host was not impressed<br \/>\nand he had to blow out of town<\/p>\n<p>he came down to earth near Phoenix<br \/>\nin the middle of the summertime<br \/>\nhe walked to the first bar he saw<br \/>\nand ordered whiskey, beer, and wine<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">An angel came down from heaven<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">hoping to get away<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">he stewed in the hotel bar all night<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">and baked by the pool all day<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He pushed the desk clerk to a breakdown<br \/>\nand drove the other guests away<br \/>\nhe punched out the hotel detective<br \/>\nand ran off with the pretty dark eyed maid<\/p>\n<p>They laid out on the lam for 40 days and nights<br \/>\nand on the 41st they had to rest<br \/>\nthe pretty dark eyed maid was all worn out<br \/>\nand the angel was scared to death<\/p>\n<p>he knew they&#8217;d have no trouble tracking him down<br \/>\nangels have this certain glow<br \/>\nand when they said it was time to leave<br \/>\nbrother, then it&#8217;s time to go<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">An angel came down from heaven<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">hoping to get away<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">he stewed in the hotel bar all night<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">and baked by the pool all day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">(C)1990,2009, TK Major<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dharma. It&#8217;s the damnedest thing. Not to mix metaphysical and cultural paradigms here. We are born into a life we have no business pretending to understand, and, if we spend too much time pondering that, we either drive ourselves crazy or become paralyzed, frozen in the amber of our own, absurd ontological dialectic&#8230; Angel&#8217;s Vacation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,5],"tags":[341,343,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}