Scrapbook of the Dead

First Law of Thermodymics:

Energy is constant, it is never increased or decreased in capacity, only transformed.



As the great bodhisattva sat quietly in the lotus position,
He dreamed of enlightenment and had visions of chivas.
As the flames danced upon his skin, in rebellion
He crept toward the void where Nirvana would await


And for a split second,
The thruth of the world was revealed…



On June 16, 1963, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc immolated himself in downtown Saigon. Quang Duc was actually protesting religious persecution under the Diem regime.


August 16, 1963, only 2 months after Quang Duc's self-immolation, another monk immolated himself in Phanthiet, about 100 miles from Saigon. The use of self-immolation continued as the war waged on. In May of 1966, Thich Nu Thanh Quang, a Buddhist nun, immolated herself in the city of Hue.


Her death inspired a demonstration of some twenty thousand people in Saigon and a series of eight other self-immolations by Buddhist bonzes and nuns throughout the major cities of Vietnam...President Johnson called the suicides "tragic and unneccessary" and said that they obstructed progress towards holding the elections for a constituent assembly. On May 31, a group of students and Buddhist youths burned down the U.S. consulate in Hue.


The bodhisattva is translated literally as "one whose essence is perfect wisdom" or "one destined for enlightenment."


The visions were getting stronger as the essence of humankind was revealed…
The Dalai Lama speaks:
“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.


As does the great Albert Einstein:
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." -- Albert Einstein
"Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."

Quang hurles through the subconcious toward the state known as "the awakening"...

Further examples of potentials that follow from nonequilibrium distributions of energy. Whenever energy (in whatever form) is out of equilibrium with its surroundings, a potential exists for producing change that, following the second law, is spontaneously minimized.

The second law of thermodynamics (the entropy law or law of entropy) was formulated in the middle of the last century by Clausius and Thomson following Carnot's earlier observation that, like the fall or flow of a stream that turns a mill wheel, it is the "fall" or flow of heat from higher to lower temperatures that motivates a steam engine. The key insight was that the world is inherently active, and that whenever an energy distribution is out of equilibrium a potential or thermodynamic "force" (the gradient of a potential) exists that the world acts spontaneously to dissipate or minimize.

Stars are collections of gasses in space.


The Great Bodhisattva awakened
On a sweet grassy knoll
High above the waters of the Nile
In a basket wrapped in white silk…

The world was beautiful,
as though seen for the first time.


First Law of Thermodymics:

Energy is constant, it is never increased or decreased in capacity, only transformed.