tires and wheels done, once I get my primary back from Pangea Speed, that is all the mods for this year, I'm broke and my knuckles are busted. Time to Ride!

Straight Ahead



Go very deep into yourself. Let body and mind fall away. Experience the absolute basis of reality. But the path doesn't end there. This is just the peak of the mountain. You need to continue the journey. Where do you go when you’re at the peak? Straight ahead. It’s always straight ahead. Straight ahead when you’re on the peak means down the other side of the mountain back into the marketplace. That’s where your realization needs to manifest. Otherwise, what’s the point?

- John Daido Loori, "Straight Ahead"

And there you have it.

Constant Vigilance
The crucial point is to maintain constant vigilance over and awareness of our mental state so that, at the moment that afflictive emotions rise up, they will not trigger a chain of deluded thoughts. Thus, we neither let desire overwhelm our mind, nor do we repress it while leaving it intact in a hidden corner of the mind. We simply become free from its alienating power.

- Matthieu Ricard, “Working with Desire”

Po' Boy Rim Job. Yeah, I know I just said 'Rim Job', primer today, black tomorrow, Avon Speedmaster MK II's next week.

Love the Shovel, but still lament the loss of the Panhead

Loss is a fact of life. Impermanence is everywhere we look. We are all going to suffer our losses. How we deal with these losses is what makes all the difference. For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny, but how we relate to what happens.

- Lama Surya Das, "Practicing With Loss"

My Grandpa, Larry Flanigan, in the 1930s

Not too many miles this weekend, but miles none-the-less, only lost a few parts that had to be put back on with lock-tite. Gotta run her through the shake down period.

Letting Go of Fixation
Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free of it. Whatever we fixate upon limits us because fixation makes us dependent upon something other than ourselves. Each time we let go of something, we experience another level of freedom.

- Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, "Letting Go of Spiritual Experience"

I thought this one was funny, because this entire blog is about 'fixation', I don't see it ending any time soon. Where is the fun in that?  I guess when you meditate in a cave you lose the perspective

that motorcycles kick ass.  Even Buddha says stupid shit sometimes.

Another weekend has arrived, sun is finally out today.