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  • Finding Beauty Beyond Clever Devices

    Finding Beauty Beyond Clever Devices

    “Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?” — Toru Takemitsu “The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I feel it’s not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there…

  • I Want You Back

    I Want You Back

    Really a superb cover. Related articles Ex-Temptations singer Richard Street dies at 70 (kfwbam.com) Michael Jackson Hits Broadway! – First Look at Motown: The Musical (people.com) Mighty Motown: A Conversation with Berry Gordy (essence.com)

  • The Incarnations

    The Incarnations

    My brother on the path Mahadeva Jaya and his good companions chanting & celebrating the Incarnations of Lord Vishnu. Related articles Ravan: The Anti-Hero (wunnerful.wordpress.com) Carl Jung: symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body (immanence.net) 7 Secrets of Vishnu by Devdutt Pattanaik (lazybookworm.wordpress.com) Pandanus (fragrantica.com) Soundara…

  • Veggies in the House

    Veggies in the House

    Thanks to Dušan B. for showing me this video. Amazing what you can do with vegetables. Related articles Lev Manovich – Hybrid Media (carolineearlyconvergentmedia.wordpress.com) Heems Turns ‘Blade’ Opening Into Music Video (Mixed Media) (popmatters.com) A dj’s mid-career crisis and need your assistant (gearslutz.com) Veggies: Cruel and Unusual Nourishment. (mommabetic.wordpress.com) How…

  • Hans Memling in Brugge

    Hans Memling in Brugge

    ..[T]he Memling Museum [is] housed in the former Hospital of Saint John. The hospital functioned from the 13th century onwards, and much of the museum’s collection is devoted to illustrating its history. Sixteenth century surgery tools used at the hospital are particularly chilling to behold, especially those used for “trepanation.”…

  • You’re Too Strong Not to Keep on Keepin’ On

    You’re Too Strong Not to Keep on Keepin’ On

    A blessed Friday to all throughout the world.. Now, get up and shake that ass! Related articles Vault: Gladys Knight at 1983 Plumfest (newsnet5.com) Soul Train: Gladys Knight & The Pips – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (soulbrotherspeaks.com) Video: Gladys Knight performs ‘The Way We Were’ on NAACP Image…

  • Meditational Painting | Writing Finger

    A really nice elucidation of painting as meditation. As the author states, he is “writing about painting as meditation, not meditation before painting…” I very much recommend a couple of reads. No human culture lacks adornment.  It can be as simple as deciding what to wear or how to paint your…

  • Untitled post 3429

    Tribute Exactly year ago I photographed this Mango Tree at Lake Valdevi,  now again i went to the same place to get the different mood of this alone Mango tree, but me or Mango tree, someone among us was unfortunate, as the tree was completely dead. This image is the…

  • Shadow Pico

    One Direction as you have never seen them before… but would probably like to again.   Related topics: More the One Direction in which Millennials can Thrive (keithwaynebrown.com)  nesh nesh nesh (keithwaynebrown.com) A Lilting Life at Leisure in the Great Dance (keithwaynebrown.com) One Direction (wikipedia.org) One Direction Tease Fans With New Movie Trailer…

  • Many Rivers, One Foot, No Certainty

    “One can, therefore, step twice, and even innumerable times, into the same river, if the river is located by its slope, its banks, its direction, its flow, as it is by any discriminating mind-body; but one never steps twice into the same river, quite simply because there is no river,…

  • Dreaming Action, Risking Curiosity

    “The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers” — William S. Burroughs “Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action — the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors — is almost as old as…

  • Controlled Accident

    At the heart of perennial philosophizing is an always developing mastery that we can, following Alan Watts, call “controlled accident.” Others have done far better than I could in really detailing what is meant by this oxymoronic usage. But if I might give it short attempt: Let-go of this desire…

  • Without a Teacher

    Having awakened to Encompassing Mindfulness, what master can make of you a mere disciple? Let-go seeking after authority: liberate this being, this self! Source: Uploaded by user via Keith Wayne on Pinterest  

  • The Socratic Sign

    There comes a time when you notice that a good swathe of your contemporaries are only worth engaging in order to sharpen your rhetorical weapons. To improve your mindful practice, you must turn to those much younger who recover within you the dynamics of faith and to those much older…

  • Recalling This Beautiful Order

    In attempting to philosophize as a way of life, I have often “translated” many terms/concepts into a single notion that would comprehend the nuances of diverse sages across time & cultures. Whether I succeed is another story entirely. A particularly important phrase for me is “This Beautiful Order.” The term…

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one for us to follow. Source: google.com via Katharina on Pinterest Thanks to the Commonzense of St.…

  • Textimony 20130120

    In harmony? No need for sages. In discord? Needing sages. Heed their answers & not the question? Needing scholars. Adopt scholarship? Tyranny of authority. Source: asianart.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest

  • Creating Oneself Endlessly

    “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” ― Henri Bergson