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Dream Sutras ( haibun )
Originally posted on simonhlilly: DREAM SUTRAS Something here in Japan, perhaps the lightness of the summer mornings, perhaps the way the land subtly shivers and sways, perhaps that we are intruders unfamiliar with the nuence of its neural patterns, make night dreams here more vivid. Certainly I awake more often…
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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…
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Third Anniversary
Today, I am reminded by WordPress, is the 3rd anniversary of this blog, Reason & Existenz. Over 22000 views as of today. Hope to reach 23000 by July 04 weekend. Thanks so much to all of my good brothers & sisters in the Ether who have followed, commented, reblogged, and/or…
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The Book of Kells Revisited
A beautiful and informative post. Enjoy the learning experience! Related articles Kells Priory (maryangeliniphotography.wordpress.com) Book Of Kells Video Series and Digital Book of Kells Online (blueeyedennis-siempre.blogspot.com) Blue Marble to Book of Kells (news.kynosarges.org) Micheline's Blog Dear friends,I am forwarding a blog I wrote on 18 November 2011. It…
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Ageless Wisdom
“The sacred function of hope has, in modern man, degenerated into a hideous disease called tomorrow.” –G. Gurdjieff How does the old age not already become the new age? How does the ancient not always transform into the modern? Would expectation focus on the want for difference? Then why keep…
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MOOCs and the Humanities
Originally posted on Posthegemony: So, there’s a lot of fuss about online and “flexible” learning, MOOCs, and the like these days. My posts on Eric Mazur and Coursera have drawn a fair amount of traffic to this otherwise rather neglected and sporadically updated blog. Welcome, new readers. Another post on…
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down
down rolling falling drifting earth cold mud parting away foot leg waist torso neck head deranged beneath the at-level down ground water baptism “this is my beloved baby” breath stopping stoney ranging down-below emptiness down devils elementals daemons gods caressing hot memories death after between before life floating up-above arrangements transcendence Related articles Entelechy – Cosmos…
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Daodejing 30
#30* The minister who relies on the DAO never threatens all under heaven with violence. Surely such an action must lead to retaliation. Wherever troops walk, weeds grow After the time of war, must come the time of famine. The good strategist desires the fruit of struggle: tranquility. He dares…
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Nowhere do I want to remain folded
Thanks to my beloved brother Joseph C. for reminding me of this beauty from Rilke. I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy. I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough just to stand before you like…
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alright
Everything is alright. Every thing is alright. Everything is all, right? Every thing is all: right. Related articles Entelechy – Cosmos – Event (keithwaynebrown.com) The Fool Falls! (throughthevortex.org) Who is Rumi? (responsiveuniverse.wordpress.com) Infinity (turbulentortoise.wordpress.com) Away with the Way (concordiadiscordata.wordpress.com) Shamanism and Curanderismo: The Approach to Healing in Peru (realitysandwich.com)
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howling alone
small dog barking lonely how can he know his roommates will return? it is not the way of being a puppy to know the comings and goings of adult humans. might they be expected, however, to know the loneliness of puppies? the light in the refrigerator supposedly goes off when…
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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…
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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)† and destroys nothing. Controls nothing and loses nothing. Things are…
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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 over. In Latin, translate is a past participle of transfer.…
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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…
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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…
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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 exchange it is given the circumstances. On being exposed, Tongue…
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Yen Hui’s progress
Related articles Authority & Laxity (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 28 (keithwaynebrown.com) The Duke and the Wheelwright (wayofoneness.wordpress.com) The student who taught Confucius about happiness (fcpablog.com) 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…
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