Confucius said, “The minds of men/women are more difficult to comprehend than heaven itself. Heaven has its seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter and the times of morning and evening. But man’s exterior is impenetrable concealed and his feelings lie deep within. Some can have an honest appearance but can be excessively…
The sage [insightful] regards what is thought to be necessary as unnecessary, and therefore he is not at war with himself. The multitude of men think what is unnecessary is necessary, therefore they are at war with themselves. Those who rely upon the strategy of war resort to it in all their actions. But…
A (master) mechanic, called Shih,on his way to Khî, came to Khü yüan,where he saw an oak tree,which was used as the altar for the spirits of the land. It was so largethat an ox standing behind itcould not be seen.It measured a hundred spans round,and rose up eighty cubits on the hillbefore it…
Among the men of old their knowledge reached the extreme point. What was that extreme point? Some held that at first there was not anything. This is the extreme point, the utmost point to which nothing can be added. A second class held that there was something, but without any responsive recognition of it…
PLAY Is not the opposite of work but the improvisational genius the inner child sage PLAY Is rehearsal for reality remaking of reality myth-making in motion shapeshifting on purpose how we make love to uncertainty composing music out of paradox HOLY PLAY Sabotages fanaticism and dogmatic ferocity MUST sabotage fanaticism can you dignify plain…
Words are a lifeline: The connecting link between my inner awareness, the layered consciousness, and memories which we loosely call “self” to other selves, and to “the world. ” The connectors are a matter of words, grammar and syntax. Therefore a deft touch with words is key to becoming more real, the process of…
This short story is one of the most remarkable I’ve ever read! How is it possible for a male to express with such insight, aspects of pregnancy which only a female is directly acquainted? Surely the description of such an expectation of ‘the unknown’ must be attributed to extraordinary observation. And then the hidden…
A Thursday morning, and I have an appointment with my lawnmower. Fallen leaves wait to be harvested. The mulch will not be wasted. The dying and the life-to-come are intimately linked, – mulch to new life. Just thinking about the infinite supply of shock material, so many videos from the political right and left…
What goads us into regarding all philosophers with an equal measure of mistrust and mockery is not that we are struck repeatedly by how innocent they are – how often and easily they err and stray, in short, their childish childlikeness – but rather that there is not enough genuine honesty about them: even…
Sunday, late summertime is fine here. Sunshine, the beds of flowers display a riot of life and colors. But not so everywhere. In the aftermath of the Maui wildfires the death toll stands at 93 so far. Did anyone think a tropical paradise could be vulnerable to wildfires? Neighborhoods wiped out, now become skeletal…
