Living a simple family life with wife and pets, spending most of my free time on house work and hobbies.
As of 2024, a bit overworked, no time for anything new.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Lived, traveled with couchsurfers, met some accidently. Enjoyed it very much.

Interests

Electronics and restoring old audio equipment. Yard work and house renovation. People, how and why they live. Walking outside. My dogs. Making and eating food. Games. Religions. Silence and sights.

• dogs
• walking
• electronics
• religion
• sightseeing
• cinema
• games
• construction
• data
• yard work

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Huxley, Vonnegut, Bradbury, J. D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey!), Coetzee, Alan Watts, Winnie-the-Pooh, Exupery. But I don't read much nowadays, used to read more, now into podcasts and technical literature.

Music: Happy to exchange. What I've been listening to recently: https://www.last.fm/user/ekgp97sl

Movies. Slice-of-life kind of. Kind of, but not really. Koreeda is my favorite director.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm fine just as I am, not into those things.

Teach, Learn, Share

walking in the rain, he would say, "Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere"
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"As soon as anything is needed, it seems that it is filthy and eaten by mice."
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"The speaker has no authority as a person. This is not a personality cult"
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I am here. But before I am here, you know, what exist here? Something you don’t know existed. I am, you know, someone who exist here who is speaking something. And I am also someone who—someone which does not appear in this way. Before I say something—before I exist here, something is here with all being. And I am both someone who has form and color, and someone who has no form and no color. And you are speaking to someone who has body and mind.
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Pat L.: Dōchō-rōshi, could you explain what it means to be a serious Zen student?
Suzuki-rōshi: Serious? Excuse me—serious Zen—
Pat L.: Serious student of Zen Buddhism.
Suzuki-rōshi: Serious student Zen Buddhism. Don’t try to be serious. Just keep up with our practice. Don’t, you know, try to get up earlier than other people. Stay in bed. Okay?
Pat L.: Okay.
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Existence means exactly what it says: trees are treeing, clouds are clouding, stars are staring, people are peopling and if you don't understand, look at it again.
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So you shouldn’t say: “Now I am helping myself, and someday I will,” you know, “after I help myself, I will help others.” That is very poor understanding.
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When we talk with each other, you know, we don’t know which is which. When we have complete communication, you know, there is no differ—we cannot say which is which. As long as you feel, “I am here, and he is there,” that is not complete communication. And this is the experience you actually have always, but you ignore this actual experience and say, “This is me, and that is others.”
That is, you know, silt of your practice. After some hours, you know, even in the stream you will have silt, and when the silt is mixed with water, that is real water. But, you know, when silt is divided from the water, that is already something which will happen later. So we shouldn’t, you know—actually water has something in it, you know. That is actual water. We—you call [it] “mineral water”? What do you call it—the water you buy from the store in the bottle? Hmm?
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Student: Coca Cola?
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"<...> walking in the rain, he would say, "Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere."
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"Never will he understand the sufferings of another who has not experienced them himself, though he may have divine Reason and the nature of a genuine Devil!"
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"The purpose of their existence is to be the victims of leeches."
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"Just roses, roses."
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Nesakyk: „Kaip tai yra, kad ankstesnės dienos buvo geresnės už dabartines?“, nes ne iš išminties bus tau kilęs toks klausimas.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My company and experience.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Kosovo, Latvia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Lithuania