Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - San Marcos TX
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Faulty Throttle Position Sensor, December 24, 2008
Travel route for the day
From Brenham TX I went
- South on TX 36 about 1 mile then
- West on TX 109 about 10 miles to Industry TX then
- West on TX 159 about 25 miles to La Grange TX then
- West on TX 71 about 20 miles to Smithville TX then
- South on TX 95 about 1 mile then
- South on TX 535 about 16 miles to Rockne TX then
- South on TX 20 about 25 miles to Fentress TX then
- West on TX 80 about 12 miles
To San Marcos TX
Get directions and a Google map of this route
Night camp
Wal-Mart Parking Lot in San Marcos TX
Wal-Mart Supercenter in San Marcos TX
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #404, 1015 Hwy 80, San Marcos, TX 78666 - (512) 353-0617
- This store has a nice, level parking lot.
- Verizon cell phone service - yes, excellent signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - yes, excellent signal
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Emptiness
Emptiness shouldn't be thought of as a negative. A lot of people misconstrue that as meaning the opposite of something is nothing. But this is something slightly different. I don't want to get into comparative religious things because that's a complicated topic. But if we were to think about it, the problem of life and death has to do with what comes in between, and what comes in between is an awful lot of suffering. We're not just talking about the pain of suffering, we're talking about suffering. Our common everyday parlance it's called stress. That's a kind of suffering and we die from this. From the standpoint of Zen Buddhism this life isn't some sort of stage mock-up for something else that comes after this. This is what we have. We're right here and we're being in this present moment. What you want to think about when you think about emptiness is a way in which to stay present. Just as, in a way, in a very strange kind of concept, there really is no such thing as time. There's no dress rehersal for anything.
The Artful Mind, Reverend Sohaku Flagg, Rinzai Buddhist priest, in an interview with Nanci Race, Jan/Feb 2003