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  • Care-Free Wandering (Zhuangzi)

    [PREVIOUS] Responsive to Skillful Attention Following the river where it bends—not because rivers knowbut because bending is what rivers dowhen they meet the unmovable. After months of decluttering awareness through Nagarjuna’s emptiness and learning to show up with skillful attention,… Continue reading

    Care-Free Wandering (Zhuangzi)

  • The Limits of Jaspersian Patience

    Philosophical faith and dialogue might seem hopelessly inadequate. “Playing the long game” can also feel inadequate when people are being threatened, disappeared, or killed.  Here I attempt to outline why Jaspers was no fool about this. Continue reading

    The Limits of Jaspersian Patience

  • maintaining submission

    Writing poetry rather than writing an exam. Continue reading

    maintaining submission

  • eating oats

    Well… I need to write something. Odd that I do not care to write but can be spurred by watching the beginning of a film—Mr. Holmes—after eating a bowl of steel cut Irish oats… suddenly this desire to “record something.”… Continue reading

    eating oats

  • Blogs I ♡: Tender Heart Musings, Himani B. | man of words

    Himani is an ecstatic poet of note, she wanders through this world inviting ecstasy and pain in equal measure. A trail of Tender Heart Musings tell the tale. Utilising deeply evocative imagery and her unique connection to the unquantifiable elements of existence;… Continue reading

  • Twilighting Idolatries

    Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold… Continue reading

    Twilighting Idolatries

  • 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

  • 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

    Boon of Dandelions 7

  • 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

  • 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

  • HELP AN AUTHOR | ellisnelson

    Good advice from Ellis Nelson on how we who love to read & think about what we have read can help those who are publishing their works with smaller firms: 1. Support small presses and indie writers by  selecting  and reading… Continue reading

  • Paradoxoi

    A nice overview of diverse (and often famous) paradoxes. Home page | Some paradoxes – an anthology. Continue reading

  • How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later

    Well, I will tell you what interests me, what I consider important. I can’t claim to be an authority on anything, but I can honestly say that certain matters absolutely fascinate me, and that I write about them all the… Continue reading

  • The Drama of Existentialism – NYTimes.com

    I am always impressed by the frisson in my class when students realize that there’s a sense in which Sartre is right: they could, right now, get up, leave the classroom, drop out of school, and go live as beach… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120417

    dandelion snow adrift on whispered wishes floating afternoon Continue reading