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  • Poem for Kris

    as said by them sages, “just so” just so-just so-just so non-interference with the flow forgoing and slowing forgoing all knowing when we see “to – be” just sewing-just sewing-just sewing Related articles Flowing / Swaying (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 25 (keithwaynebrown.com) Body… Continue reading

    Poem for Kris

  • Daodejing 25

    #25* There is a thing born of Nature before Heaven & Earth. Soundless, formless Independent, unchanging Always turning, never stopping. Regard it: the Mother of All. I do not know its name, reluctantly I call it the Great Way (Dao).… Continue reading

    Daodejing 25

  • 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… Continue reading

    Radiant Living

  • unMonastery :: EdgeRyders

    This is something I would like to experiment with doing here in the States. I have often thought that something based along the lines of a monastery, ashram, or sangha would do more good for locales than colleges or universities… Continue reading

    unMonastery :: EdgeRyders

  • Whatever, Etc. 00023

    If you have a spare 25 minutes, I continue forward with thinking about the Loving Struggle. The text that I quote at length in this talk: I cannot accomplish this communicative struggle by the rational force of argument, but neither can… Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc. 00023

  • 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… Continue reading

    Hans Memling in Brugge

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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.    Continue reading

  • Mindfulness = Emptiness

    Mindful thinking properly becomes emptiness or no-thing. This begins by the inward turn. Being now/here, there is no then/there to which you can race that will possess all the things you “need” to possess. Continue reading

    Mindfulness = Emptiness

  • Thinking Beyond Yourself

    “The time [being 36 yrs old] is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. ― C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation Continue reading

  • Roman Ingarden (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

    An important philosopher whose work should be read by anyone who has an interest in grasping the ontology of the work of art. This is especially true of his work on music & film. Roman Ingarden (1893 – 1970) was… Continue reading

  • @babette_babich: Arches in Koblenz

    As always, some beautiful images from philosopher & photographer Babette Babich. This time, Arches in Koblenz. Follow her on Twitter: @babette_babich Continue reading

  • Rochen (Batoidea, Syn.: Rajomorphii)

    Some really great stuff over at hellboy2503. Rochen (Batoidea, Syn.: Rajomorphii).   Continue reading

  • ARTSblog » Blog Archive » STEM Promotes Science Instruction at the Expense of Humanities

    My good sister & colleague Kelli Barr responded to the ARTSblog piece to which I posted a link the other day. Besides a response here at Reason & Existenz, she also wrote a longer reaction at ARTSblog. She goes into… Continue reading

    ARTSblog » Blog Archive » STEM Promotes Science Instruction at the Expense of Humanities