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  • The duty of being friends

    M-W-F @ 1:00pm, lecture for 8/31/2016. The relationship of philosophizing (caring as skillfulness of mind) to freedom (the duty-to-be-friends) by way of mindful lineage. Continue reading

  • Moving Toward the Great Companion

    O Thou Encompassing, thou All, thou One Thou Beauty! Thou Truth! Thou Goodness! Letting-go of Suffering. ceasing Frustration. I come now-here: Waking up and opening out. Moderation and Courage Clear a place for Prudence Fortitude and Justice Build a dwelling… Continue reading

    Moving Toward the Great Companion

  • Daodejing 71

    #71* To know your ignorance is most upright. [1] Not knowing but pretending to know is illness. [2] Just consider shortcomings only as shortcomings: thus, no shortcomings. The Sage has no shortcomings because he considers shortcomings as shortcomings: hence, no shortcomings. *Translation… Continue reading

    Daodejing 71

  • Daodejing 3

    #3* Do not encourage excellent abilities, [1] [and] keep people from contention; do not value rare goods, keep people from stealing; do not flaunt the desirable, keep people’s hearts undisturbed. Hence, the governance Of the sage Empties their hearts Fills their… Continue reading

    Daodejing 3

  • Daodejing 33

    #33* Knowing others: lucidity. Knowing self: brilliance.† Defeating others: strength. Defeating self: discipline. Contentedness: wealth. Perseverance: will. Never losing self: endurance. Dead yet unforgotten: longevity. †The characters translated in these two lines both contain the glyph for sun. Lucidity is… Continue reading

    Daodejing 33

  • Flowing / Swaying

    Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference (striking-between) not only establishing but proliferating differences, setting apart and breaking down until the world is an… Continue reading

    Flowing / Swaying

  • Radiant Living

    My good brother, Andrew J. Taggart, continues his series of meditations on Radiant Living. I highly recommend Andrew’s work. He is a diligent, insightful counselor who is committed to reinvigorating the notion of philosophy as a way of life. Related… Continue reading

    Radiant Living

  • Dropping the Arrows of Craving

    Every day we shoot the arrow of craving from where we are now/here to some other place we are not yet. We crave very deeply for what we do not have and where we do not happen to be. We… Continue reading

    Dropping the Arrows of Craving

  • No Room for Improvements

    You would find your own life and the lifeworld itself flourishes with more gracefulness if you just let-go the need to improve yourself. Wait, wait: Don’t misunderstand me. Not recommending that you stop doing Yoga or meditating or learning skills… Continue reading

    No Room for Improvements

  • Elucidating

    To praise you in reality is to praise oneself, for he who praises the sun thereby praises his own eyes. Rumi Source: pinterestgreat.com via Jenny on Pinterest … [A] 13th-centuryPersian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Iranians,Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims… 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

  • nesh nesh nesh

    …As has always been said, clarity comes with the giving up of self. But what this means is that we cease to attribute selfhood to these echoes and mirror images. Otherwise we stand in a hall of mirrors, dancing hesitantly… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130120

    In harmony? No need for sages. In discord? Needing sages. Heed their answers & not the question? Needing scholars. Adopt scholarship? Tyranny of authority. Source: asianart.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130103

    Always the whispers of sages slip into oblivion. Loving struggle, ever adventuring to say the as yet unsaid, finds refreshment by raising up the forgotten. Continue reading

    Textimony 20130103

  • Textimony 20121217

    Do not tremble in the darkest corner of your being, hiding your weakness. Bring light & dispel the shadows. We must be most fearless in uncovering our fears. Continue reading

    Textimony 20121217

  • A Boon of Dandelions 5

    Creatures of emotion. & passion… reason is not our better power but our guiding power, our focus & adjustment. To sense, to cognize,  to remember, to imagine, to judge, to believe: these are all ways that we reason. Brought together… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120811

    If seeking ethics, embrace fortitude; faith, compassion; wisdom, openness; divinity, mercy. But in seeking wholeness, embrace nothing. Let-go. Continue reading

  • Ryan Lochte: So sexy, so dumb – Salon.com

    This is so to the point of how “health” & “beauty” get reduced to “physique” & “prettiness.” People would do well to close their eyes and listen to what a person is saying before they look and are sidetracked by… Continue reading