Situatedness
DASEIN, Being-here, openness, having to be open, connectedness
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Aurora Consurgens
Our evaluations. – All actions may be traced back to evaluations, all evaluations are original or adopted – the latter being by far the most common. Why do we adopt them? From fear – that is to say, we consider… Continue reading
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I contradict myself
I post something about atheism then write a poem on the Transcendence to the Divine. I throw up the scriblings of mystics but then put forward the theorems of materialists. I co-translate the Dao de Jing yet entertain the truth… Continue reading
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and – or
“and” – the quality of having “or” – the quality of not-having a note struck or plucked, blown or sung… having sound: hearing having context: recognizing having start: grasping having finish: letting-go a note giving way to silence which gives way to… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Controlling for Cosmopolis
Jose Ortega y Gasset points out that the term “emperor’ means “the one who goes to where the border begins”. The Latin word is related to the Spanish verb empezar (to begin). An Imperator was a general who kept whole the… Continue reading
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Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions ‘…then there is the mishandling of time. The physicist Lee Smolin’s recent book, Time Reborn, links the crisis in physics with its failure to acknowledge the fundamental reality of time. Physics is predisposed to… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 9
Dozing content on mid-may morning Cool pillow against my cheek Iced coffee just enough to keep me from going back into dreamland Birds squawking at the humid heat Sun bright, day brilliant Writing thinking planning ———————- My futon is tight… Continue reading
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Withdrawing
Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 8
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveller, long I stood… –Robert Frost So many, so varied are all the possibilities of how anything gets from this place to that… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 7
Anything done to excess opens the door to more excesses. The spiral downward–slow or fast–can only be arrested with real moderation born of bold honesty. Any Existenz who lies to himself with the con game of “I am NOT an… Continue reading
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Whatever, Etc. 0026: Become Your Breathing
Just some basics for beginning sitting meditation. Make yourself comfortable, be friendly with your thoughts–ask them to please not bother you for five minutes–and simply breathe. Related articles Whatever, Etc. 00025: Alteration (keithwaynebrown.com) Thinking without Personal Recognition (keithwaynebrown.com) wandering, wondering: (a)maze (keithwaynebrown.com) Can… Continue reading
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Melancholia: Certain Tracks and Uncertain Treks
Melancholia, always patient watcher, lurking in backgrounds, awaiting a moment when Sophia is not watching o’er my mind: Then, darkness. — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) April 23, 2013 Flow the words from my fingers through the medium, plastic metal silicone… Continue reading
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Can We Rethink the World?
I know that we can rethink the world; moreover, I believe that we should. Henry Giroux and Brad Evans are both public intellectuals very well worth engaging. Please let me know what you think. I also recommend learning about the… Continue reading
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Fear and Fearlessness
O you luminous being, you heart encompassing a brilliance: let-go fear; end your self exile in darkness: Only open your eyes & see the Light. Textimony 20121209 Related articles Abandon Hope (and Fear) (shambhala.com) Pema Chodron – Renunciation as saying… Continue reading
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How does Vandana Shiva do it?
Reading Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other works that are transforming my anarchocynicism, my thoughts keep returning to Vandana Shiva. “[How do I do it?] Well, it’s always a mystery, because you don’t know why you get depleted or recharged.… Continue reading
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Walking Meditation 20130309
“Everybody knows how useful it is to be useful; nobody knows how useful it is to be useless.” –Zhuangzi Contemplating how seeking after the future makes all things but mere tools on the way to success in a later-on nowhere… Continue reading
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Originally posted on stuffgradslike: If your eyes jumped to the title of this post, then this is probably for you. The natural trajectory of most jobs for college grads (well, really all, in a sense) is that you will leave… Continue reading
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