Donovan's Mountain Song: What Does It Mean? First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is…. The Allman Brothers Eat a Peach Record.

At the heart of Buddhist teachings we are told that all things are impermanent and subject to change and flux. Simply stated, nothing in the world around us or our self is fixed or solid. There are no things, just process and flux.

OR... Maybe it's describing the Motion of an Inchworm... 

Donovan in Concert... 1972 BBC TV... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkLp9d7HKuA 

Allman Brothers Mountain Jam - Eat a Peach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuNz2idDtY 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_a_Peach

Butch Trucks suggested they name the album Eat a Peach for Peace, after a quote from Duane Allman. When the writer Ellen Mandel asked him what he was doing to help the revolution, he replied:

I'm hitting a lick for peace—and every time I'm in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace. But you can't help the revolution, because there's just evolution. I understand the need for a lot of changes in the country, but I believe that as soon as everybody can just see a little bit better, and get a little hipper to what's going on, they're going to change it. Everybody will—not just the young people. Everybody is going to say, 'Man, this stinks. I cannot tolerate the smell of this thing anymore. Let's eliminate it and get straight with ourselves.' I believe if everybody does it for themselves, it'll take care of itself.^[23][22]

Drummer Butch Trucks considered Allman's comment a sly reference to the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot, one of Allman's favorite poets.^[22]

Eight Sided GO Sign - 

Similar to a STOP Sign but 

with a Positive Message.

The chorus of this song: "First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is," may sound incomprehensible or silly, but the lines are a Zen saying Donovan borrowed and which have a meaning. The lines are intended to succinctly describe three stages of Zen. Pre-enlightenment, one's aware of the Universe as physical (there is a mountain). Then through meditation one may experience a visionary state where the physical Universe seems to disappear (no mountain) where the "Buddha Mind"/Tao [Zen first developed in China as a blend of Indian Buddhism & Chinese Taoism] root of reality behind physical appearances is experienced as non-physical. After that vision, the mountain reappears, except in ones new enlightened state one is simultaneously aware of the physical mountain & the Void/Tao non-physical reality behind it & at its root... And now you know the rest of the story!

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Where were you on 9/11/2001? my friends on Facebook respond...

Jessie Dallaire: at home with unbelieving eyes and a heavy heart

Sherry LaBrier Pomicter: Driving to work

Luke Muslimforlife: Getting baked :D at mi crib

Linsie Dawson: driving my school bus route...watching the skies empty out...very memorable morning.

Thomas Speak: Watching the events unfold on tv live -- but not believing what I was seeing...like a movie, but something that could never happen...

Greg Vanderlaan: I was at work at WREX plastics Factory in Chico, CA. I was sitting out front waiting for my shidt to start and a co-worker drove up... He said, "They blew up the Pentagon." I said "Good." We had no more information about what happened in New York or Pennsylvania until a couple of hours later when the QA inspector gave us updates... It turned out to be more than just the Pentagon... eventually over a million people died as a result of the events of thet day. 3,000 in America on 9/11/2001 and 6,000 Americans in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and an uncounted loss of life of Iraqi and Afghan people.

Don Land: at a Muslim Mosque in Tacoma Washington Learning about Islam.

Luke Muslimforlife: Bridgeport Way? @ Don Land

Town Lake Angel:
i was in somewhere way deep...unbelievable to remember...

Don Land: ‎@ Luke..Yes

Fred Capp: Driving to work when i first heard about it.
Two weeks later I didn't have a job anymore.

Luke Muslimforlife: Oh lol I went there b4 that same mosque b4 i converted and after converting

Don Land: I was there reciting the Sha-hadeeth whil on the TV in the next room the Towers were on fire...

Billy Gartside: I was delivering a quarter of weed to a couple of students just around the corner on Parkfield Road.They opened the door,one said "you won't believe what's on the TV" so I sat down in the living room and watched transfixed for 45 minutes.

Spanhippy Kevin: I was waking up for high school. Turned on the tv to find the first tower hit. Then about 10 min later I watched the second tower get hit on tv. It was horrible and still is. The feeling I got from all those peoples energy. But now to find out through documentaries seeing how beautiful strangers where risking their life to help anyone they possible could. My Love and Prayers go out to the family's that where effected through 9/11. May God Bless You All

Luke Muslimforlife: It was damn sad when it happened everyone was like at shock it honestly felt to me time took a halt like it froze i honestly froze..sad.,

Andy Singletary: I395 South, Crystal City, VA - Working for BIW (not bwi) delivering military household goods to a storage warehouse in Suitland, VA


Suzanne Cohen: in bed my friend kept calling going OMG OMG, I turned the TV on just in time to see the second tower

Tracy Voiles: Asleep. Woke up to my neighbor yelling at me and hitting the wall wanting me to come over and see. It was awful :'(

Unsolved Mysteries. 

Why didn't the airplane hitting one corner of the World Trade Center cause it to tilt?

Why didn't the building lean towards the structural damage? 

Why did WTC 7 fall down at all? No airplane hit #SEVEN yet it fell down as if it was a controlled demolition... Oh MY... 

and... 

Never forget that CIVILIANS DEFENDED THE COUNTRY in Pennsylvania. 

Why did the military fail completely? 

What can we learn from this experience to help the military NOT FAIL?

How can we avoid blowing up the wrong country in retaliation?

Iraq had NO WMD, No ties to Al-Qaeda and Nothing at all to do with 9/11. 

and...

How can we end the war in Afghanistan that is still being fought today?

ISN'T THE MISSION ACCOMPLISHED YET?

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Downwind of twin towers? 2010 Census data of the neighborhoods under the smoke cloud shows what trends? We have clear photographs taken from space showing the footprint of the smoke from the Twin Towers. 

9/11/2001 Smoke Seen from Space with Map of Brooklyn

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