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  • Ft. Collins, Colorado

    The buddy-friend-guy and I are on our way to visit our good brother on the Way, Ronnie Pelton, the customer advocacy director at Toddy LLC. We’ll be visiting the Rocky Mountain National Forest, Estes Park, Boulder, etc. But we are… Continue reading

    Ft. Collins, Colorado

  • Sunflowers: See a dozen great photos | Earth | EarthSky

    All of these photos came from EarthSky Facebook friends. We asked you to post your sunflowers pics, and wow! Here are a dozen of them – sunflowers from all around the world. via Sunflowers: See a dozen great photos |… Continue reading

  • Picture: Land of Elves by Ildiko Neer

    Land of Elves by Ildiko Neer http://500px.com/photo/39814398 Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

  • Daodejing 39

    #39* In the ancient days: grasping one. Heaven grasping one: clear and bright. Earth grasping one, tranquility. Spirit grasping one, effective. [1] River valley grasping one, fullness. 10,000 things grasping one, growth. Kings grasping one, leading under-heaven. Draw this inference: Grasp one. Heaven without clear and bright, splitting open.… Continue reading

    Daodejing 39

  • 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… Continue reading

    Daodejing 37

  • Horrifying Planet | The Onion

    I post a lot on here about this Beautiful Order we call the life-world. So I hope that folks will take this bit of comedy in good spirit. Cause it is hilarious… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Body 4: Disembodied Nature

    Newest issue of Disembodied Text is out. Take a look see. The poetry, the music, the art pieces… really speaking to me this morning. Hat off to the editors, Kiki and Chris, for a great compilation. Body 4: Disembodied Nature… Continue reading

    Body 4: Disembodied Nature

  • This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World | How to be an Anthropologist

    I find the Facebook meme distressing, not because of the Belo Monte Dan Project, but because the author and all of the people who share it have fed into and bolstered (even if unknowingly) a narrative that depicts indigenous people… Continue reading

    This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World | How to be an Anthropologist

  • 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

  • Daodejing 24

    #24* A show-off never learns A know-it-all never shines A braggart never achieves A boaster never gets ahead All of this is most unnecessary Seen from the viewpoint of the Way The person on the Way avoids all of this… Continue reading

    Daodejing 24

  • Daodejing 23

    #23* Speak rarely like Nature. Typhoons do not blow all morning. Thunderstorms do not last all day. Who makes the typhoon to blow and storm to thunder? Heaven and earth. If even Heaven and Earth cannot sustain things for long,… Continue reading

    Daodejing 23

  • 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

  • THIS is – this IS – THIS IS

    morning satori authentic letting-go? walking along, listening to Alan Watts THIS clicks into place thoughts weaken, fall away after a last tugging illusion a hesitation then/there – NO! now/here YES! Squirrel running along wall chittering & skittering THIS is this… Continue reading

    THIS is – this IS – THIS IS

  • Textimony 20130223

    The Encompassing flows always with ease and already in due time. How can you detain This by clinging to unconstant things or thinking fleeting concepts? Related articles Textimon 20130216 (keithwaynebrown.com) Cultivating Non-Intellection (keithwaynebrown.com) Seeking What the Wise Seek (keithwaynebrown.com) Impermanence (earthmama02.wordpress.com) Wabi-sabi… Continue reading

    Textimony 20130223

  • 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)… Continue reading

  • Tribute Exactly year ago I photographed this Mango Tree at Lake Valdevi,  now again i went to the same place to get the different mood of this alone Mango tree, but me or Mango tree, someone among us was unfortunate,… Continue reading

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  • 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