Ladies and gentlemen, the metaphysical elephant in the room: Mind.
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Haiku: Spring 2024
all-encompassing Heaven above
all-manifesting multifarious Earth below
this living, breathing wakeful world is Buddha!
Layers & Levels Chapter Eight: Body Speech and Mind
Flowers in their flowering communicate the lovely enlightened language of Flowering Being
With manifold qualities of form, texture, colour, temperature, scent, beauty, sensitivity.
As with flowers so with all, from microscopic universes to macrocosmic spiralling galaxies…
Layers & Levels Chapter Five: Heaven Earth & Man
Venerating the past in itself will not solve the world’s problems. We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present. When you appreciate a painting or a piece of music or a work of literature, no matter when it was created, you appreciate it now. You experience the same now in which it was created. It is always now.
Article 69 Of Brains & Location
1. For 10-15 seconds focus only on the black dot below. Put 100% of your attention on it. (Read #2 first)
2. For the next 10-15 seconds keep that attention on the black dot but also now include awareness of the space around, both inner mental awareness and outer physical space.
Article 66: Tethered to Form
Now – and more importantly – look at what happens to our minds when using terms like yin and yang. Our minds immediately want to make them into something definite, tangible, measurable even though in our mountain example they are changing from moment to moment and in any case aren’t really measurable things at all, rather relationships.
Article 63: the binding principle in religiosity
Graspings: wholes, not wholes; convergent divergent, consonant dissonant, from all things one and from one thing all. Heraclitus. c 500 BC
The Ideal Qigong Teacher 30,3,6 > 51 < 28
Willows weep in joy
heavenly birds bless the earth as they land
where ordinary mortals
like ourselves
can admire and learn
from their grace and beauty.
Homage to CTR
Who is exhausted when remembering your inexhaustible naughtiness?
Who is reverent having been taught to ransack kleshas and show no mercy?
Who is regretful when every moment is a glorious dawn of present realization?
Yi: Can Les Francais rescue Democracy? 63-1 >39 <64
We storm the Bastille, my brothers, again
Again and again and again and only more rain comes.
Let us sit together, count our blessings
Then once more unto the breach, dear friends,once more!
Oppressive Heaven; Earth yearns for Cutting Through; Man must deliver!!
Yi: Geopolital Reading of US-NATO axis March 27 2023
Yi Reading:
Geopolits of US-NATO axis
March 27 2023
Hexagrams 42 Increase
leading to 39 Impasse
Nuclear 23 Splitting Apart.
Meditation Haiku 2022: #1 – 6
diving into the deep…
no need
to come up grasping
for air
Ekphrastic Haiku 4
waves which are ocean made of ocean
Two Truths Ruminations #1: Experiencing the Absolute
First there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain
Then there is
Haiku #104: Cosmic Copulation
clouds into sky
sky into space
such marvellous primordial joy
our universal birthright