Laughing Ourselves To Death
41 When a superior man hears of the Tao,he immediately begins to embody it. When an average man hears of the Tao, he half believes it, half doubts it. When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud. If he…
Pivot Point
39 In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creatures flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. The…
Always There’s Smoke
22 If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up. The Master, by residing…
Weed
Today, Friday is overcast. Clouds and wildfire smoke from Canada’s forests. Nature seems real enough to me. There are wildflowers as well as “weeds” growing, living, drawing nourishment in a section of my backyard. Weeds and wildflowers are a distinction of language, my trace of a line between vegetation that I desire, and that…
Destroyer, Breaker of Values Into Pieces
Listen carefully now, you enlightened ones! Weigh seriously, whether I have discerned the heart of life itself, the very roots of its heart! Wherever I found a living thing, there found I Will-to-Power; and even in the will of the servant I found the will to be master. The weaker is to serve the…
What To Fear (the entire enchilada)
“WILL to Truth” you call it, you learned ones, which compels you to become so focused? ~*~ Will for the thinkableness of all being: thus would I characterize your will! All being you want to make thinkable: because you secretly doubt with good reason whether being is already thinkable… But it shall accommodate and…
Unappeased Gap
Night. In darkness things gain definition, a better focus. I dreamed in the early morning hours. The detail has already escaped my recall. The gist, the weight of the presences, a female voice spoke to me saying that I must attend to female perspectives in my life. Why that point? I am a guy,…
Beauty Speaks
WITH thunderand heavenly fireworksmust one speakto lethargic and drowsy senses. But beauty’s voicespeaks gently:it appeals onlyto the most awakened souls. My buckler gently vibratedand laughed to me to-day;it was beauty’s holy laughing and thrilling. At you, you virtuous ones,laughed my beauty to-day.And thus came its voice to me: “They want – to be paid…
Look Into The Mirror
Why did I startle in my dream, so that I awoke? That is the question isn’t it? Dreams and night visions are the stuff of literature. The story of Macbeth comes to mind. No one knows for sure from whence comes a dream. I remember talking about dreams with a therapist. She recognized dreams…
The Talking Adder Part I
Tuesday and wondering how to get started with this post. This weirdly delightful story parallels the Creation Story in Genesis. You know, the temptation of Eve segment with the talking serpent. Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s alter ego, is portrayed as encountering a talking adder, while napping. The shock of the encounter was extreme, as he wakes…
