Haj Morteza (Ali) Gharavian-حاج مرتضی (علی) غرویان

Haj Morteza (Ali) Gharavian passed away at 14:45 on August 6, 2008 in the I.C.U of 22-Bahman hospital in Nishapur.
It is the saddest news I have ever heard on my life (And I think it will remain the same, because there would be no news sadder than it was).

Related Links:
http://www.qudsdaily.com/archive/1387/html/5/1387-05-20/page14.html

http://www2.irna.ir/04/news/view/menu-623/8705199893124304.htm

http://www.kayhannews.ir/870520/3.HTM#other309

http://sanaei.blogfa.com/post-155.aspx (with picture)

http://truelife.blogfa.com/post-106.aspx

http://zaminekhaki.blogfa.com/post-7.aspx

http://2niayeman.blogfa.com/post-36.aspx

And He Went

And he went to a place better than here....

و او رفت به جایی بهتر از این جا...ـ
و راح إلی مكانة أفضل من هنا....

A cup of tea(Zen Story No.1) --یک استکان چای (داستان شماره یک ذن)ـ

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

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نانین، استاد ژاپنی در دوره ميجی، يکی از استادان دانشگـاه را که می خواست از او در مورد ذن سوالاتی بپرسد، را پذیرفت، پس از زمانی مباحثه، نانین چای را در استکان مهمان خود سرازير کرد و همانطور به ریختن ادامه داد، استاد دانشگاه که استکان چای را در حال سرازير شدن می ديد نتوانست ساکت بماند و گفت: "استکان پر شده است، ديگر جايی ندارد"، نانین به او گفت: همانند اين استکان، تو نیز از اعتقادات و تفکرات خویش پر شده ای، اگر ابتدا استکان خویش را خالی نکنی، چگونی توانم ذن را به تو نشان دهم؟

How to Eat a Pomegranate

A nice blog post about how to eat a pomegranate. That's fantastic!
see

Wikipedia, the Addictive Drug

The most addictive drug I've ever seen is definitely en.Wikipedia.com . If you get into the business of wikipediaing!!!(the verb i thought coined today but later realized that it is present.See), you'll find yourself stuck on that.
If you have not joined the wikipedia editors community, Do It Today.You'll love it.

حرکت جدید

تا به حال چندین بار وبلاگ درست کردم و آن را در گوشه ای وانهادم. از طرفی دوست داشتم به انگلیسی بنویسم و از طرف دیگر زبان نامادری مشکلات خاص خویش را دارد.نتیجه وبلاگی شد که تنها به زبان نامادری است و سال به سال به روز نمی شود.
از امروز و با مدد جستن از نظری که دخیل بودن کورش کبیر را در این وبلاگ محتمل دانسته بود، تصمیم بر آن شد که تابوی بلاگر را بشکنم و به فارسی نیز بنویسم.

I think I should do it!

After almost six months, I decided to write in my diary. I am doing it because I read “la nausée” by Jean Paul Sartre where Antoine Roquentine declares a good diary as an essential part of everyday life!

Yes, I am moving to a new paragraph as J.D. Salinger accentuates paragraphs and the importance of proper paragraphing! Today, we took chemistry exam, the last of the final exams. There are two more non-final exams that their grades are not used as a criterion for university entrance: Computer and History. Today, I found out the damned essence of NH3 when dissolves in water and creates a weak electrolyte and not a non-electrolyte. Damn! Damn! Damn!

After the exam, three of the schoolmates and I went to drink something. I wonder why I ordered “carrot juice and ice cream” while I liked to drink a cool non-alcoholic beer. I do not know why I did that. Maybe because I think that I should order carrot juice and ice cream whenever I can make a selection (It is exactly like when I order hotdogs while I like hamburgers). The drink was good and refreshing, incidentally!