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Who are we?
So big and so small
You make yourself as your self makes you
Today I feel dumped by the world
You have to be Self-absorbed to be selfless
A measly 35,000 years is nothing against the 13.8 billion-years age of the universe
Some people are children
We think we’re in a special time
Capital "You" is the ocean
Two sandcastles—one big, one small—on a beach
TAKE the question “Who am I?"
All your successes in the end
Rudimentary Consciousness
What is the Universe
I looked up the numbers for the present size of the known universe
Everything can be derived from...
I think the universe is not a thing or a process but an impulse
The Universe creates itself from itself
Because we are here to gaze and think
We are part of a self-emergence virtually without beginning or end
The Cosmological Argument
I can say that
The famous “Double-Slit Experiment” bears upon the notion of reality
I know a thought that is more frightening than death!
When they say that the universe is...
Sleep
When waking from deep dreamless sleep
I believe that sleep may be a mechanism through which...
Ahimsa ("non-harm" or "non-violence")
Put the philosophy of Ahimsa into practice in everyday life
I think all paths converge on Ahimsa
It's a funny thing, this Ahimsa thing, isn't it?
More and more, I think that the most ahimsa
Ahimsa is not just an ethical precept
Some good general precepts for an ahimsa life
Without an ahimsa attitude (benevolent, not me-focused)
The Bhagavad Gita is clearly true allegory
Compassion
A compassionate society is neither authoritarian nor democratic
Compassion vs. love
Compassion is not the same thing as love
It is very dangerous to your health to trust anybody
Cruelty and Suffering
"You know? F* it. I am tired of suffering."
This is the nihilism
There are no good terms in English to describe "trivial" suffering
Evil is gratuitous cruelty
You only have to look
History and Society
If you choose not to go to war, peace happens by default
The story of the Titanic
This is a huge, pivotal moment in human history
Humans pretty much
We tend to romanticize Native Americans now
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Light
A kind of light—like dense cathedral light—
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River Waves
Green hills twist to flat beach
A sea of reeds and wet lake bed
I was a fisher with a hook
On all of the great shores
On a fortress island in the sea
In deepest winter, the ice does not come
I have traversed those seas
I am a very long river
Debris collects
Crow vulture Jane
Growth
This is pine country
Flight
Fleeing, yes, fleeing
And you'd better fly away before the day
The moon was earlier a feather in the early light
You are no more than a wisp of air
Blow, breeze, blow
Sense the sharp wind
Rest After Motion
A Narcissist
Still tetherless, these days fold into each other
Woven together
A straight line of trees an hour’s long
One day too many, I sat astride
The tearful world cannot bind me to its sorrow
The trains passas the seconds do
The Way of the Exile & Extracts Therefrom
The Way of the Exile
Inexistent: To let go of future is also to transform past
Then it occurs to me that being without perturbation
Prophecy: Long-abiding peace is the redwood tree
And in the imagination that makes breathing art of a life
Pleasures Unknown
Your pattern is stenciled on crumply paper
A history on the lost labor of love
Never had a craft
Some Haikus
Preposterous
Ancient Greece became
On a day of things preposterous
L’enfer nous entoure à tout instant
Debris collects
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May 27, 2016, 2:55 PM
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