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midnight epiphany
Originally posted on ∙ tenderheartmusings ∙: walking the path beneath incandescent moonlight as we share similar madness, clarity pours from another realm the words that make us ceaselessly fill the space between us bathed in the light emanating from our beings, absorbed in the thoughts mirroring our essence, we ascend I pause briefly in…
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Fantasia for Baroque Lute – Akira Ifukabe
Please enjoy listening to this beautiful piece that my good brother Dusan B. left sitting around on his Facebook page. Below the embedded video is some info about Ifukabe-san. Enjoy! …Akira Ifukube was born on May 31, 1914 in Kushiro on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, the third son of a Shinto priest. Much of…
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City of New Orleans – Neslon / Guthrie / West
As my buddy-friend-guy, Christopher, points out, this is ironically enough a train wreck. Don’t get me wrong… I actually dig it. But the singing styles of the three involved are so different… Nelson always sings a bit ahead of the beat, Arlo is just behind it, and Dottie is just…
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Night Life – B. B. King / Willie Nelson
First up, B. B. sings his version of Willie Nelson’s Night LIfe… Then Willie joins B. B. to do it up together…
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Daodejing 37
#37* The Great Way (DAO): Never doing (WU WEI) but always doing all. If kings can follow this, the 10,000 things will grow and develop spontaneously. During the course of growth and development, whenever arises a desire to do… I will suppress it with the simplicity (Pǔ)† of the Great…
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Pǔ or the uncarved block
Very often, translators render the Chinese word Pǔ into English as “the uncarved block.” The term refers to a state of pure possibility (what the Greeks mean by DYNAMIS). This describes the original condition of the mind before the happening of any experience. In the way that it is utilized most…
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111 Years of the US Surveillance State
Harvard historian Murray Levin argued that this mood of fear and near-panic that possessed the popular imagination throughout the early Cold War years was not so much a spontaneous reaction as the result of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the power elite. In Levin’s words, “The proponent of…
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Conversations with a Devotee – Kafka
Conversations with a Devotee by Franz Kafka There was a time when I went every day into a church, since a girl I was in love with knelt there in prayer for half an hour in the evening and I was able to look at her in peace. Once when…
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Daodejing 36
#36* To shrink it, expand it. To weaken it, strengthen it. To demote it, promote it. To take it, give it. Call this subtle brilliance: Bending and weakness overcomes rigidity and strength. *Translation by LU Wenlong & Keith Wayne Brown, ©2013. Related articles Daodejing 37 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 35 (keithwaynebrown.com) Now being…
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Animal Spirits: The Bee | Through the Peacock’s Eyes
Another timely consideration of a spiritum animalem from Julianne Victoria at Through the Peacock’s Eyes The term “busy bee” is no accident. Bees symbolize industriousness, concentration, activity, busy-ness, group communication, and family and social networks. They tell us very busy times are ensuing. This increase in activity should be beneficial though.…
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The Metallic Spirit of a Tea Scholar –Gongfu Girl
One thing that I find interesting about nearly all of the portrayals I’ve seen of Lu Yu, the 8th century Chinese writer of the Cha Jing (茶經, “Classic of Tea”), is that they are so consistent in style. He is almost always seated and shown with a teapot to one…
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“Seek out historic …
“Seek out historic distractions–purposeful conspiracy and habitual con-spiring (breathing a common air)–by which those who would claim to hold power try to keep empowered. Power belongs to no person. It already flows from the Way and always returns to the Way. This is the only knowledge that is enduringly powerful.”…
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