Anna Paquin's Bisexuality Is Revealing

This article was originally published by Technorati on 2 April 2010. To see all my Technorati articles, click Lifestyle in the Contents listing on the sidebar.

Anna Paquin, winner at age 11 of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1994 Oscars, now 27 and staring in True Blood, revealed yesterday she's bisexual in a public service announcement for Cyndi Lauper's "Give a Damn" campaign against sexual-orientation discrimination.

Let's see, she's been in Hollywood since age 11? Perhaps more interesting news would have been that she's straight.

It defies credulity to suggest that such women are the object of discrimination. Based on an abundance of movies, sitcoms, men's magazines, women's magazines, teen magazine's, talk shows, websites, porn sites, and idle male conversation, civilizations from other galaxies have long since decided that such women rule our world.

Indeed, men on every planet from here to Andromeda are high-fiving Paquin's True Blood co-star and fiancee Stephen Moyer on what should shape up to be a very happy coupling.

When the Tao is on the Move

When the Tao is on the move, you know it. It's exciting.

When it isn't, life can be dull, boring, normal. You find yourself wondering if you're doing something wrong.

In reality, you should be enjoying that time for its boredom. It is the boredom of the soldier between campaigns.

When the Tao is on the move, it means a likelihood of combat at some point. But why should you care where the battle takes you? Of course, you would like to win the war, you're a patriot, after all. But what you really care about is getting home to your loved ones in one piece.

You're not afraid to do battle, but if it's all the same you'll take the boredom and wait out the war.

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Awakened Consciousness Not a Backseat Driver

Let's put it this way: the job of your consciousness--the consciousness that you are--is to sit back and enjoy the ride. Don't interfere, don't be a backseat driver. Just relax and watch the scenery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti put it a slightly different way, but he meant the same thing. In A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Eckhart Tolle tells the story of Krishnamurti's revelation of his "secret." It was simple. He said, "I don't mind what happens."

Who is "I" in this statement? Krishnamurti's consciousness. Consciousness that does not mind what's going on is free to sit back relax--inner peace--without interfering with The Good that runs the universe, all that is, including us.