Monday, December 19, 2022
Monday, September 12, 2022
Monday, September 05, 2022
Spot On - took me a long time to learn enough to even see the glimmer of this wisdom.
David Sherry published a blog called Creative Caffeine which you can find here: https://www.caffeine.blog/ I highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter to keep up with what he's thinking and blogging.
He most recently published a blog post entitled Rumi Wisdom. Find it here to learn more. So much of this blog post rings true to me and some lessons here took me way too long to learn. Wish I found Rumi a long time ago. But I did now thanks to David Sherry. Thanks David.
I snipped a bunch of the post here because I want this in this "permanent record" of mine.
Love
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
“I said: What about my heart? He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
“Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.”
“Through Love, all pain will turn to medicine.”
Losing Yourself
“Doing as others told me, I was Blind.
Coming when others called me, I was Lost.
Then I left everyone, myself as well.
Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”
“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
“Life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites.”
Change & Purpose
“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you fearful
and sad.”
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
“Set your life on fire. And see who fans the flames”
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Don’t grieve.
Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
Thursday, September 01, 2022
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Saturday, August 06, 2022
Wise Mind
Wise Mind is the perfect balance between reason and emotion. Individuals living in Wise Mind are able to utilize both reason and emotion, taking the middle path to cultivate emotional sensitivity and a calm, cool collectedness. A Wise Mind lives intuitively, taking the time to observe and practice mindfulness.
Also: https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/what-is-wise-mind
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Mediterranean, from a different angle
Good way to think about the history and development of the region. Consider exploration and settlement proceeding from the bottom of the map towards the top.
via: https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/658213774393737216/sideway-map-of-the-mediterranean
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
from 2019 - About Face
"Death and surrender to men in the clothing of power"
https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/
via: @Nate_Powell_Art
for the permanent record.
Friday, July 15, 2022
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Patti Smith
always great and yet under-appreciated.
thanks to:
https://andr0medaas.tumblr.com/post/682466979402153984/undergroundrockpress-patti-smith-by-gerard
via:
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Wednesday, April 06, 2022
hsin hsin ming by Sengtsan
The Way, My friend,
If it is truth you wish to see,
Is not difficult.
If it is truth you wish to see,
then hold no opinions,
for, or against, anything.
To place what you like,
against what you dislike,
is the hanky-panky of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things
is not understood,
You bother yourself to no avail.
The Way, My friend,
Is perfect.
It is due to our choosing
to accept, or reject, that we
do not see the true nature of things.
When you try to stop activity
to achive passivity,
Your very effort fills you with activity.
When you deny the reality of things,
you miss their reality.
When you assert the emptiness of things,
you miss their reality.
The more you talk, and think about it,
the further you wander from the truth.
Stop talking, and thinking,
And there is nothing
you will not be able to know.
To return the root,
is to find the meaning.
But, to presume appearances,
my friend,
is to miss the source.
Do not search for truth,
only cease to hang on to opinions.
If there is even a trace,
of this or that,
of right and wrong,
the mind essence will be lost
in confusion.
When the mind exists,
undisturbed,
Nothing can offend.
And when a thing can no longer offend,
it ceases to exist in the old way.
If you do not discriminate between
coarse and fine,
You will not be tempted to prejudice
and opinion.
Even to be attached to the idea
of enlightenment is to go astray.
Just let things be,
in their own way
And there neither be coming nor going.
When thought is in bondage
the truth is hidden.
The burdensome practice of judging
brings annoyance and weariness.
What benefit can be derived,
from distictions and separations?
If you wish to move in the one way,
do not dislike even the world
of sense and ideas.
To accept them fully,
Is identical with true enlightenment.
The wise man strives to no goals.
but the foolish man fetters himself.
There is one way,
not many.
Distinctions arise from the clinging
needs of the ignorant.
To seek Mind (Capital M)
with discriminating mind (little m)
Is the greatest of all mistakes.
All dualities come from ignorant inference.
They are like dreams,
foolish to try and grasp them.
Gain and loss,
right and wrong,
Such thoughts
must finally be abolished at once.
If the eye never sleeps,
All dreams must naturally cease.
If the mind makes no discriminations,
The ten thousand things are as they are
of single essence.
To understand the mystery of this
one essence,
Is to be released from all entanglements.
When all things are seen equally,
The timeless self essence is reached.
No comparisons, or analogies
are possible,
in this courseless, relationless
state.
When such dualities cease to exist,
Oneness itself cannot exist.
To this ultimate finality,
No law, or description applies.
for, or against, anything.
To place what you like,
against what you dislike,
is the hanky-panky of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things
is not understood,
You bother yourself to no avail.
The Way, My friend,
Is perfect.
It is due to our choosing
to accept, or reject, that we
do not see the true nature of things.
When you try to stop activity
to achive passivity,
Your very effort fills you with activity.
When you deny the reality of things,
you miss their reality.
When you assert the emptiness of things,
you miss their reality.
The more you talk, and think about it,
the further you wander from the truth.
Stop talking, and thinking,
And there is nothing
you will not be able to know.
To return the root,
is to find the meaning.
But, to presume appearances,
my friend,
is to miss the source.
Do not search for truth,
only cease to hang on to opinions.
If there is even a trace,
of this or that,
of right and wrong,
the mind essence will be lost
in confusion.
When the mind exists,
undisturbed,
Nothing can offend.
And when a thing can no longer offend,
it ceases to exist in the old way.
If you do not discriminate between
coarse and fine,
You will not be tempted to prejudice
and opinion.
Even to be attached to the idea
of enlightenment is to go astray.
Just let things be,
in their own way
And there neither be coming nor going.
When thought is in bondage
the truth is hidden.
The burdensome practice of judging
brings annoyance and weariness.
What benefit can be derived,
from distictions and separations?
If you wish to move in the one way,
do not dislike even the world
of sense and ideas.
To accept them fully,
Is identical with true enlightenment.
The wise man strives to no goals.
but the foolish man fetters himself.
There is one way,
not many.
Distinctions arise from the clinging
needs of the ignorant.
To seek Mind (Capital M)
with discriminating mind (little m)
Is the greatest of all mistakes.
All dualities come from ignorant inference.
They are like dreams,
foolish to try and grasp them.
Gain and loss,
right and wrong,
Such thoughts
must finally be abolished at once.
If the eye never sleeps,
All dreams must naturally cease.
If the mind makes no discriminations,
The ten thousand things are as they are
of single essence.
To understand the mystery of this
one essence,
Is to be released from all entanglements.
When all things are seen equally,
The timeless self essence is reached.
No comparisons, or analogies
are possible,
in this courseless, relationless
state.
When such dualities cease to exist,
Oneness itself cannot exist.
To this ultimate finality,
No law, or description applies.
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