December 2010
45 posts
Walt Whitman on Blowhards and Space
When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist...
Susumu Yokota | Blue Moon
Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe
“The highest a man can attain,’ said Goethe on this occasion, ‘is wonder, and when the primordial phenomenon makes him wonder he should be content; it can give him nothing higher, and he should not look for anything beyond it; here is the boundary. But the sight of a primordial phenomenon is not generally enough for men; they think there must be more in the back of it, like children...
Wonderment and Being
“Wonderment is the presence, the presenting, the appreciation of reality as Being. All appearance is sheer art, beautiful beyond all enduring, appealing beyond all possibility of possession. It cannot be possessed but it is entirely accessible. The treasure which our being preserves for us is like an ever-present nectar; it is like an inexhaustible kingdom which is always open to us.”
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Tarthang Tulku: Stories and Patterns
Sitting quietly, let the mind involve itself in the stories that flow through consciousness. Notice the dynamic that powers each story: the concerns and desires, worries and distractions. As you become more familiar with these patterns, look for second-level stories that support the stories on the surface; for instance, stories about who you are and what you stand for, or stories that make...
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A.H. Almaas on Peace
“What is the most loving and compassionate thing one can do to create peace, both personally and universally? We can sum up this teaching by saying that the most loving and compassionate thing you can do for peace is to do absolutely nothing. When I say to do nothing, I do not mean what would ordinarily be thought of as doing nothing. We will try to understand a much more fundamental...
“A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to...”
– G.I. Gurdjieff
“Zen is a path of discovering one’s true, innate friendship with the...”
– Roshi Philip Kapleau
