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| Image constructed from a photograph* I took this morning in our garden |
My Russian Mammoth sunflowers
Once so proud, standing tall
Now submissive
Bowing deeply
Welcoming Fall
* the original photograph
Monday, September 10, 2012
Welcoming Fall
My Russian Mammoth sunflowers
Once so proud, standing tall
Now submissive
Bowing deeply
Welcoming Fall
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Can "Being" be thought of as a Person?
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| Sculpture consisting of two stacked beach stones Photograph taken at Seapont Beach, ME and manipulated in Photoshop |
* quote from Steven Batchelor, Stephen , Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist
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(Kindle Locations 2790-2804)Saturday, September 8, 2012
The Journey...
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| Photo taken during our journey through New Mexico, Spring 2012 |
[Buddha’s] very last words seem to suggest that the journey is perpetual:
“All created things move on. Keep striving with diligence.”
“All created things move on. Keep striving with diligence.”
“In one sense we are always traveling.” Thomas Merton wrote,
“traveling as if we did not know where we are going.
In another sense we have already arrived.”
The lives of each of us, the Buddha was saying on his path,
are a journey toward recognizing where we’ve been all along.
“traveling as if we did not know where we are going.
In another sense we have already arrived.”
The lives of each of us, the Buddha was saying on his path,
are a journey toward recognizing where we’ve been all along.
* quote by Pico Iver from his essay, The Long Road to Sitting Still, in Tricycle Magazine, Fall 2012, page 106
Monday, September 3, 2012
Beyond thinking and judging – beyond worry
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| Old Wheeler fields where I used to go parking as a youngster |
Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down
in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language
- even the phrase "each other" -
do not make any sense.
From The Essential Rumi, page 16. Translated by Coleman Barks.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Beyond words: articulating shifting shadows
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| Primordial landforms: Pawtuckaway State Park, 9/1/12 |
Obviously these other beings do not speak with a human tongue: they do not speak in words. They may speak in song, like many birds, or in rhythm, like the crickets and ocean waves. They may speak in a language of movements and gestures, or articulate themselves in shifting shadows...
Language, for traditionally oral peoples, is not a specifically human possession, but is a property of the animate earth, in which we humans participate. *
* Above quotes by David Abram (p. 11) Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Even human homes become gestures of the land
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| At Taos Pueblo (taken during our tirp to NM, Spring 2012) |
"Old buildings regularly worked over
by the sun, rain, and wind
finally become gestures of the local earth..."
by the sun, rain, and wind
finally become gestures of the local earth..."
"The people who take up residence...
are channeled into patterns of life
appropriate to the realm
by the edifices that surround them." *
are channeled into patterns of life
appropriate to the realm
by the edifices that surround them." *
Friday, August 31, 2012
There's something primordial, something foundational, about thinking visually
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| Buddha realizing enlightenment under my striped maple tree: 8/31/12 |
“Thinking in pictures,” Sigmund Freud once wrote, “stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.”
There is, in other words, something primordial, something foundational, about thinking visually...
There is, in other words, something primordial, something foundational, about thinking visually...
Like Freud, Wittgenstein took very seriously indeed the idea that our dreams present us with a series of images, the interpretation of which would reveal the thoughts we have relegated to the unconscious parts of our minds...
It was fundamental to Wittgenstein’s thinking... that not everything we can see and therefore not everything we can mentally grasp can be put into words. *
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