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  • Aphorism 17Feb2023

    No matter how broken, we overcome. Continue reading

    Aphorism 17Feb2023

  • Taking a razor to toxic masculinity

    Today, the battle for men’s souls reached an extraordinary new frontier: men’s shaving brands. On Tuesday, Gillette released an ad that takes stock of a handful of cultural issues that have always lingered just beneath the surface but became full-blown… Continue reading

    Taking a razor to toxic masculinity

  • 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,… Continue reading

    Daodejing 36

  • 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

  • Asking Questions Beyond Thinking

    Many who #meditate are surprised by the #etymology of #Mantra. Deepen your practice by embracing #uncertainty. goo.gl/5NhNZ — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) February 18, 2013 “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual… Continue reading

  • Comments to a Walking Meditation 20130205

    The good is one thing, the gratifying is quite another; their goals are different, both bind a man. Good things await him who picks the good; by choosing the gratifying, one misses one’s goal. Both the good and the gratifying… Continue reading

  • Awake for Deathless Wisdom

    In a world become blind, I beat the drum of the Deathless. Siddhartha Gautama, the Awakened Ariyapariyesana Sutta Source: peace-n-kindness.tumblr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World (keithwaynebrown.com) Heart And Soul… Continue reading

  • Don’t Look Down!

    The next time you go rock climbing or scrambling up a peak, someone may give you some clichéd but good advice: “Don’t look down.” This is not just a recommendation that works with struggling up a physical height. Often, you… Continue reading

  • The Banking Conception of Education

    “In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed                … Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121212

      Silly little monkey. Just hanging around. Too earthly to embrace your gifts from the Encompassing Good; too heavenly to forget them. Let-go your hesitation. Continue reading

  • Day (356) – Incredible « The Better Man Project

    A nice entry from Evan Sanders at the Better Man Project that really exemplifies “Do or do not… there is no try.” Very much worth the read, and if you have not followed this project yet… DO so. Day (356)… Continue reading

  • Underpants Gnomes: A Critique of the Academic Left « Larval Subjects .

    Nice engagement over at Larval Subects of the issues that brought a lot of thinkers I know to put forward notions of “field philosophy.” …Even though these critiques are often right, we express them in ways that only an academic… Continue reading

  • The Lonely Road « Broken Light: A Photography Collective

    Photo taken by Josefine, a swedish photography student currently based out of Los Angeles. The reason she decided to pursue photography full time is because she saw the impact pictures can have on people, both by looking at them, and making… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120822

    We try & are tried; harm & are harmed; help & are helped. Not having THE ANSWER for all time, we embrace historic solutions for the time being. Thus we strive . Related articles If we can refrain from harming… Continue reading

    Textimony 20120822

  • Textimony 20120816

    “Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.” Frank Herbert, DUNE Continue reading

  • Karl Jaspers on the Struggle for Existence

    My existence as such deprives others, just as they deprive me. Every position I occupy excludes another, claiming some of the limited space available. Every success I have diminishes others. My very life is due to the victorious struggle of my forebears, and… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120809

    The “righteous” see only what is before them;       the Just obtain a more transcendent vision.          Overcoming before, no regretting after.  Continue reading