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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

    Melancholia: Certain Tracks and Uncertain Treks

  • 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

  • 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

    Fear and Fearlessness

  • A Frank Prayer

    Oh thou endless Great Way, broad and flowing in profound tranquility, Where hatred happens, let there now be love; Where weakness occurs, fortitude; Where doubt arises, faithfulness; Where despair crushes, hopefulness; Where darkness encroaches, enlightenment; Where sadness lingers, joyfulness. Encompassing… Continue reading

    A Frank Prayer

  • Advice while Awake

    When the occasion requires, speak mindfully. Be timely, not untimely. Be decisive, not confused. Be gentle, not harsh. Be generous, not miserly. Be compassionate, not cruel. Oh beloved friend, mindful of internal & external feelings, comprehend how few occasions ever… Continue reading

    Advice while Awake

  • Bhikkhu Goldstein

    Much respect for Joseph Goldstein. I have been listening to his dharma talks for over a month now, and they are quite helpful. Not only have the talks added to my knowledge of Buddhism, they have also enlightened my understanding… Continue reading

    Bhikkhu Goldstein

  • Cultivating Non-Intellection

    Q: If I follow this Way, and refrain from intellectual prooesscs and conceptual thinking, shall I be cenain of attaining the goal? A: Such non-intellection ts following the Way! Why this talk of attaining and not attaining? The matter is thus–by thinking of something… Continue reading

  • Seeking what the Wise Seek

    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among… Continue reading

  • Honest Acknowledgment

    The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately… Continue reading

    Honest Acknowledgment

  • Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing

    I am sure that if you look through my site, you would find me to be some kind of Buddhist social critic. I post all kinds of Buddhist sayings as well as lots of material on the Society of Control… Continue reading

    Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing

  • Love is not a duty or trade

    “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask… Continue reading

  • Relaxed Light: Letting-go

    What are you holding on to there in your tight fists? Why are you holding back then in dark shadow? Now/here is CLEAR: Come on… Let go & let’s go! Source: pixdaus.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Are… Continue reading

  • Daodejing 22

    #22* Sacrifice the part & save the whole. Bend that to make this straight. Hollow that to make this full. That withers, this blooms. Lose that, gain this. Determined then, confused now. Thus the sages insist on the one as… Continue reading

  • The Leisure to be Your Own Self

    “You find peace  not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,  but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”  ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing a person who is tuned-in with the Encompassing. Each… Continue reading

    The Leisure to be Your Own Self

  • 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

  • Handling this Very Moment

    The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment. Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to… Continue reading

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

  • Jumping to Judgment, Shipwrecked by Laughter

     “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -Albert Einstein Source: flickr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading