Mindfulness

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  • Silencing the Mind Will Be Heeded by the Cosmos

    I don’t really think old Laozi actually ever said this. But, it is a great quote. Related articles John Cage: Silence yet not silencing (pilimi200.wordpress.com) Silence the music (sounddesign2013.wordpress.com) Daodejing 1 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 35 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 38 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 71 (keithwaynebrown.com) Continue reading

    Silencing the Mind Will Be Heeded by the Cosmos
  • Willing Embrace

    In order to open up a cipher of the Encompassing Good, our mindfulness must turn to what obtains eternally, hold it as an idea, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. A paraphrase of… Continue reading

    Willing Embrace
  • Textimony 20130918

    Be ever mindful good friends: dialog is not a choice between victory or defeat. Authentic communication has many outcomes; winner and loser are not among them. Continue reading

    Textimony 20130918
  • Textimony 20130911

    If we live without regard for harmony, then we shall expend our precious energy waging pointless struggles. And the benefit? Vicious exhaustion. Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

    Textimony 20130911
  • ▶ Happiness in life – YouTube

    Ajahn Brahm giving a Dharma talk in Bangkok. Related articles Just two small bricks (keithwaynebrown.com) Liberation Through Non-Clinging (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 0026: Become Your Breathing (keithwaynebrown.com) Alan Watts on Waking Up (keithwaynebrown.com) Continue reading

    ▶ Happiness in life – YouTube
  • Daodejing 9

    #9.* Holding and filling it up, no comparison to stopping it in time; Honing and sharpening it cannot remain for a long time. Gold and jade fill the hall, Yet cannot be guarded. Wealthy and honored Yet arrogant, Brings disaster… Continue reading

    Daodejing 9
  • Buddhist Response To Terror

    Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Daodejing 38 Redux (keithwaynebrown.com) Becoming a Buddhist (prixiescrib.wordpress.com) The Face of Buddhist Terror (freedomnewsgroup.com) Wirathu: The Face Of Buddhist Terror – OpEd (eurasiareview.com) Continue reading

    Buddhist Response To Terror
  • A Mantra on the Way

    After spending the last year translating Dao de Jing with my dear friend and good brother, Lu Wenlong, a new “mantra” or phrase has become a regular part of the day. Dào does; I should not do. In my not doing,… Continue reading

    A Mantra on the Way
  • Irrationality: Factual Fictions

    irrational (adj.) late 15c., “not endowed with reason” (of beats, etc.); earlier (of quantities) “inexpressible in ordinary numbers” (late 14c.); from Latin irrationalis “without reason,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + rationalis “reason” (see rational). Meaning “illogical, absurd” is attested from 1640s. via etymonline.com… Continue reading

    Irrationality: Factual Fictions
  • Amor fati

    Today everyone allows himself to express his dearest wish and thoughts: so I, too, want to say what I wish from myself today and what thought first crossed my heart -what thought shall be the reason, warrant, and sweetness of… Continue reading

  • Looking for art history? Search no further.

    Good day and well met all of my brothers and sisters of the Ether! Those of you into art , art history, and aesthetics will really enjoy this. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a database with… Continue reading

    Looking for art history? Search no further.
  • 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… Continue reading

    Pǔ or the uncarved block
  • Hypocrisy

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    Hypocrisy
  • Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker

    We may be dealing here with a general principle of action… Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would… Continue reading