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  • I contradict myself

    I contradict myself

    I post something about atheism then write a poem on the Transcendence to the Divine. I throw up the scriblings of mystics but then put forward the theorems of materialists. I co-translate the Dao de Jing yet entertain the truth of the Abrahamic LORD to only contemplate a Buddhist Sutra…

  • Visual Practice

    As a closet doodler most of my life I was enthralled to learn that note taking through drawing is not only a practice but an evidence-based accepted practice filled with amazing people working in the field. via Visual Practice.  

  • Daodejing 31

    Daodejing 31

    #31* Powerful weapon: inauspicious instrument. The person on the Way disapproves of such instruments. Such are disgusting. The worthy person in daily life respects the Left as place of honor.† The person in time of war regards the right as place of honor. Weapons are inauspicious instruments not a tool…

  • Entelechy – Cosmos – Event

    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 the whole being which attracts thee. Bond thou with a…

  • Hermes

    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, Catch me up in your travels… Indulge my indulgence. This…

  • Whispering / Glimpsing

    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 the actuality of common usage or specialized term or ancient…

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

    (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 village I pass an old maple, this is not a…

  • Flowing / Swaying

    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 infinity of divisions. For this reason, learning as the apprehension…

  • Withdrawing

    Withdrawing

    Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks  overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster movies, don’t mind watching a few strings of memes as…

  • Demostrophe

    Demostrophe

    I am playing at neologisms. That must mean I am reading Heidegger. Today’s entry in the Brown Book of Jargon… DEMOSTROPHE: the turning of the people as a group, the turning in the flow of power. I am coining this term to take the place of market adjustment. More later.…

  • Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?

    Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?

    You can imagine my surprise that when I started to read around this notion of connectivism, I started off thinking that it was indeed “a learning theory for the digital age” (Siemens, 2005) to conclude that  in its current form, the ‘theory’needed to be relegated to that of a “phenomenon” (Bell,…

  • Radiant Living

    Radiant Living

    My good brother, Andrew J. Taggart, continues his series of meditations on Radiant Living. I highly recommend Andrew’s work. He is a diligent, insightful counselor who is committed to reinvigorating the notion of philosophy as a way of life. Related articles Awakening to Philosophical Life: Now Available (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 23 (keithwaynebrown.com)…

  • Daodejing 24

    Daodejing 24

    #24* A show-off never learns A know-it-all never shines A braggart never achieves A boaster never gets ahead All of this is most unnecessary Seen from the viewpoint of the Way The person on the Way avoids all of this Because such things are disgusting. *Translation by Wenlong Lu &…

  • Untitled post 3976

    Originally posted on The highest manifestation of wisdom is kindness. :   by Jane Cleary The word OM is probably more likely to be recognized by its symbol, even though it is the sound of OM that is the point of focus whenever it is used. It comes from the…

  • Untitled post 3828

    A wonderful question which by the asking can open you up to improvisation both by and within the Encompassing. Namaste. Related articles Time to Improvise (keithwaynebrown.com) No Room for Improvements (keithwaynebrown.com) Bhikkhu Goldstein (keithwaynebrown.com) Meaning of Namaste (andreadurham.wordpress.com) Mindful Presence: Embodying kindness and the listening heart (ucsdcfm.wordpress.com) The Mindful Heart (6seconds.org)…

  • Bhikkhu Goldstein

    Bhikkhu Goldstein

    Much respect for Joseph Goldstein. I have been listening to his dharma talks for over a month now, and they are quite helpful. Not only have the talks added to my knowledge of Buddhism, they have also enlightened my understanding of phenomenological techniques. I highly recommend going through a meditation…

  • Seeking what the Wise Seek

    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.” — Dogen Zenji “Not to borrow the strength of another,…