Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Entelechy – Cosmos – Event

    Seek thou after the entelecy of things if the opening of the Way is thy quest. Look not to the particular example or the general explanation of anything. To take up experience as wisdom means to be a student of… Continue reading

    Entelechy – Cosmos – Event
  • Daodejing 29

    #29* Desiring to possess all under heaven by force I think this never works. All under heaven is sacred. It cannot be taken over by force. It is uncontrollable. Possessiveness destroys; Control loses. Hence, the sage “does nothing” (wu wei)†… Continue reading

    Daodejing 29
  • Carrying Over Laozi

    The translation of Daodejing proceeds apace. Dear Wenlong works harder than ever to help me understand the simultaneous complexity and simplicity of Laozi. The term “to translate” literally mean to move something from one place to another or to carry… Continue reading

    Carrying Over Laozi
  • Hermes

    Little lean, wing-footed god How this big fat hobbling man Found himself in your service? Guide of souls at life’s end Messenger of divine will Lover of Desire herself… Send me some dream from ether, Hash me a smoky idea,… Continue reading

    Hermes
  • Whispering / Glimpsing

    Now/here flows the Way. Not in the words but around them, atop, beneath, behind, before, and after them. When ever we write, where ever we speak, the words themselves should not be the focus of meaning. While we can determine… Continue reading

    Whispering / Glimpsing
  • TONGUE SANDWICH, Plagiarist

    NOTE: This piece was originally a reblog. It can no longer be found at TONGUE SANDWICH. Turns out, TS is a horrible little plagiarist. You can see an interchange between that vile man and myself below. And what an ironic… Continue reading

    TONGUE SANDWICH, Plagiarist
  • Yen Hui’s progress

    Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: We read in The Inner Chapters of Yen Hui’s progress. He had given up ‘doing good and being right,’ but Confucius tells him this is ‘not quite enough.’ He goes away and returns. He had given up… Continue reading

    Yen Hui’s progress
  • Centered and Whole

    Finding new metrics of success is not just for women. It is for women and men who want to be whole, centered, and happy human beings. That means being whole in mind and body, reason and emotion, work and family.… Continue reading

    Centered and Whole
  • (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising

    Cool site, Mago. Worth some time to read what the contributors are talking about. For an element in the environment to have divinatory properties, it must possess a quality of apparent randomness or unpredictability. If on a walk through my… Continue reading

    (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising
  • Authority and Laxity

    Continuing the translations of the incomplete manuscripts of the middle-years of Li-Dan‘s long life… ———————- In the  morning of the last day he walked beneath the Yingke Pines, the Lord Māotóuyīng, Baronet of Wēishìjì, turned with purpose, yea even concern, to… Continue reading

    Authority and Laxity
  • Twilighting Idolatries

    Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold… Continue reading

    Twilighting Idolatries
  • House of God

    Awesomeness. Shake my sisters and brothers of the Ether… Shake it! Related articles New Dub Gabriel Album Out Today! (midnightraverblog.com) Demo: Jack the Reaper steals your heart and soul in this SNES-inspired platformer (indiegames.com) The Eater of Worlds:HERO Chapter 8… Continue reading

    House of God
  • Poem for Kris

    as said by them sages, “just so” just so-just so-just so non-interference with the flow forgoing and slowing forgoing all knowing when we see “to – be” just sewing-just sewing-just sewing Related articles Flowing / Swaying (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 25 (keithwaynebrown.com) Body… Continue reading

    Poem for Kris
  • Flowing / Swaying

    Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference (striking-between) not only establishing but proliferating differences, setting apart and breaking down until the world is an… Continue reading

    Flowing / Swaying
  • We need a new dialogue between physics and philosophy – The Guardian

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsWe need a new dialogue between physics and philosophy The Guardian In his article (Philosophy isn’t dead yet, 27 May) Raymond Tallis raises some important and difficult issues about the extent to which contemporary physics… Continue reading

  • Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study reveals that immigrants’ contributions to Medicare generated a $115 billion surplus from 2002 to 2009. I am glad to see a study was at last accomplished to demonstrate what common sense… Continue reading

    Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare
  • How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: “There are two ways to think about connectivity on Twitter:… Continue reading

    How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication