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Category: Perennial Philosophy

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    A natural philosopher† that should be studied & comprehended in order to see the large impact he has on everyday thought as well as on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. †The term “scientist” was not invented & used widely until nearly a century after Newton’s death. Related articles Rhizome |…

  • An Indistinct Sky: No-Thinking

    “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.” Siddhartha Gautama, the Awakened Related articles Struggle Falling Away: Love (keithwaynebrown.com) Awake for Deathless Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Intersecting Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Changing minds, changing lives (ashconno.wordpress.com) Debt &…

  • Struggle Falling Away: Love

    “Here it is–right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.”  Huangbo, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po “Meditation is very simple. It means to surrender the mind, the body, and the world, from moment to moment, to the silent presence in which they appear. That’s all.” – Francis…

  • Asking Questions Beyond Thinking

    Many who #meditate are surprised by the #etymology of #Mantra. Deepen your practice by embracing #uncertainty. goo.gl/5NhNZ — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) February 18, 2013 “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.”  ― Jiddu Krishnamurti You…

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    Good advice. There are many kinds of phenomenology. Even Husserl’s own descriptive phenomenology can be broken up into psychological (intentional), constitutive (eidetic), transcendental and generative phenomenologies. And then there are the diverse varieties of existential and hermeneutic phenomenologies. If you are going to be doing research with phenomenology, you must…

  • Debt and the Indebted Person

    Debt and the Indebted Person

    What is it about “you must repay your debts” that allows even the best of people to justify the worst human actions? It is very much worth your time to at least listen to the 65 minute lecture below by anthropologist & author David Graeber. My buddy-friend-guy, Christopher P., has…

  • Clouds drifting colorful

    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds Related articles Cloud Quotes (arlene1956.wordpress.com) Stories from Tagore, by Rabindranath Tagore (spr07.wordpress.com) Clouds And Waves By Rabindranath Tagore (renardmoreau.wordpress.com)  

  • Love is not a duty or trade

    “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are…

  • No Room for Improvements

    No Room for Improvements

    You would find your own life and the lifeworld itself flourishes with more gracefulness if you just let-go the need to improve yourself. Wait, wait: Don’t misunderstand me. Not recommending that you stop doing Yoga or meditating or learning skills or gaining knowledge. Did you know that the word improvement…

  • Richard Mills Owsley

    Today marks the 10th anniversary of my dear mentor & friend’s passing. I miss him a great deal at times. But usually I know he is still on-going as that thinking which was his life’s vocation and which he passed along to so very many over the course of five…

  • Soul Spelunker: Images Are Prior To Experience

    Our lives are living metaphors. We all have a story. We all have a vault of images from which our particular world is fashioned. Our story is created by the archetypes, but it is up to us to bring it into manifestation. In order to do so, we must ponder…

  • Along the Great Way

    “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Laozi “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha “Oh beloved Phaedrus, where are you going & from whence do you come?” – Socrates Source: Uploaded by user via Keith Wayne on…

  • Thinking without Professional Recognition

    Thinking without Professional Recognition

    I work in and around higher education in the United States, but I am not a professor. I sometimes say that I am in the academy but not necessarily of the academy. This does not imply, however, that I refuse to do more than my fair share of thinking about…

  • Textimony 20130213

    Fretfully making, busily doing, absent the leisurely stretch that birthed Mona Lisa; heedless we run, without time for thinking’s yawning abyss: profound boredom.   

  • Publications | Pete A. Y. Gunter

    It has been my great pleasure and honor, over the last 18 years, to sit and dialog with Pete A. Y. Gunter.   I have learned so much about Process Philosophy, Henri Bergson, Texas land values, etc. I am happy to say that I just posted a few samples of…

  • Relaxed Light: Letting-go

    What are you holding on to there in your tight fists? Why are you holding back then in dark shadow? Now/here is CLEAR: Come on… Let go & let’s go! Source: pixdaus.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Are you bypassing your growth? (zenandtheartofhealing.wordpress.com) Enlightenment Is A Story (dorfmanhealing.wordpress.com)…