What you are always looking for in things is where the suprise is there—where there’s a comeback and you say, my God this thing is alive! It has a will of its own. It is not in my control and I would like to have a relationship with something like that because it would never be dull. And also, you would feel true affection.
// The Father, The Son; The Holy Spirit//
The son is man, not just Jesus, but all men: in Christian theology we are all sons of God; thus part of the Holy trinity. You are God.
The Father is the creator, the divine maintainer. The son is his creation. Any artist will tell you that when they work on a piece of art—a creation—they pour themselves into it. Yet, the creation begins to take on a life of its own. Thus the created becomes seperate from the creator.
The Holy spirit is the ineffable, incomprehendable link that binds creator and created — for they are not two but one.
There are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
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I don’t understand how people can’t want to go to space. Look you fools. Look.
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zen, no zen: ashramof1: “The important difference between the Tao and the usual...
“The important difference between the Tao and the usual idea of God is that whereas God produces the world by making (wei), the Tao produces it by “not-making” (wu-wei)-which is approximately what we mean by “growing.” For things made are separately put together, like machines, or things fashioned from without inwards, like sculptures. Whereas things grown divide themselves into parts, from within outwards. Because the natural universe works mainly according to the principles of growth, it would seem quite odd to the Chinese mind to ask how it was made. If the universe were made, there would of course be someone who knows how it is made-who could explain how it was put together bit by bit as a technician can explain in one-at-time words how to assemble a machine. But a universe which grows utterly excludes the possibility of knowing how it grows in the clumsy terms of thought and language, so that no Taoist would dream of asking whether the Tao knows how it produces the universe. For it operates according to spontaneity, not according to plan. Lao-tzu says: The Tao’s principle is spontaneity. But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice.”
— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen (via samsaranmusing)
Interesting. Love how includes a deffinition in terms of language.
Finding it interesting in terms of the ‘Three Kingdoms’:
Cao Cao’s Wei
Sun Quan’s/Sun Jian’s Wu
I Wei was chosen because Cao Cao seems to be very concerned with carving out his own dynasty—making a dynasty—from what I understand.
“The important difference between the Tao and the usual idea of God is that whereas God produces the world by making (wei), the Tao produces it by “not-making” (wu-wei)-which is approximately what we mean by “growing.” For things made are separately put together, like machines, or things fashioned from without inwards, like sculptures. Whereas things grown divide themselves into parts, from within outwards. Because the natural universe works mainly according to the principles of growth, it would seem quite odd to the Chinese mind to ask how it was made. If the universe were made, there would of course be someone who knows how it is made-who could explain how it was put together bit by bit as a technician can explain in one-at-time words how to assemble a machine. But a universe which grows utterly excludes the possibility of knowing how it grows in the clumsy terms of thought and language, so that no Taoist would dream of asking whether the Tao knows how it produces the universe. For it operates according to spontaneity, not according to plan. Lao-tzu says: The Tao’s principle is spontaneity. But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice.”— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen (via samsaranmusing)
Interesting. Love how includes a deffinition in terms of language.
Finding it interesting in terms of the ‘Three Kingdoms’:
Cao Cao’s Wei
Sun Quan’s/Sun Jian’s Wu
I Wei was chosen because Cao Cao seems to be very concerned with carving out his own dynasty—making a dynasty—from what I understand.
Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.
We may be lost because that disorientation is life.
You know that your desires are inseparably connected with everything else. Your very desire is not your own; it’s an evolutionary impulse coming through you, so why would you doubt it? That impulse is part of the greater pattern, which is to grow and evolve into greater abundance and creativity.
The sun would not be light unless my nervous system, and your nervous system made it so. So in a way you make the world.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
// Space and Time//
I think people have a problem of thinking of space and time as separate. The four dimensions: height, width, depth and time, are all inseparable. Saying that time is somehow the ‘odd one out’, that there is space and there is time, is an illogical way of thinking: time exists within space and space exists within time, or to put it clearly: time is space and space is time. Try to think of space-time as a dance, the things that occupy space-time are not solid objects, but a gesture, a motion, a movement. In this way one can see that things do not decay, fall apart, cease to be, but move into something new. Sometimes this change is easily observed, the link between one gesture and the next is clear to the humans limited range of senses. Other times there may be seemingly nothing linking one guessture and the next, the human senses cannot pick it up. I speak of two different gesture however, it is one gesture, things don’t clunk into one another—no matter now clunky and jagged the dance, each motion still flows into the next. Form is an action; not a thing.
but when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we’re experiencing. When I say love the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person’s ear, travel through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I’m saying and they say, Yes they understand, but how do I know they understand? Because words are inert, they’re just symbols, they’re dead. And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed, it’s unspeakable. And yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think we are understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think that’s what we live for.
What you do makes a difference. We should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It’s always our decision who we are.
Hatred does not necessarily lead to violence. It is unacknowledged hatred that leads to violence.
Joe. 21. Writer. More to it than this.
