you just write and write and write and eventually words will come, like in a plethora of digital photos, among them, something at least pleasing to view. and sleepily the words continue in the usual fashion, providing more of a quiet chaos than a constructed order. so,
blackened windows opaque the queerly lit horizon beyond the [...]
Archive for September, 2007
you write with your mind open only to a squint
Posted in creative, poetic, tagged abstract, pretentious, stream-of-consciousness on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nishida: Pure Experience and Awareness
Posted in philosophical, tagged buddhism, mind, nishida, zen on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a presentation I did a few years ago for an East-Asian philosophy class. I re-read it, and in light of the book I am reading now (mind, mysticism, consciousness by Robert Forman), it made a lot of sense. So here it is.
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Nishida’s philosophy was one continuously evolving, with some ideas always up [...]
the still frozen lake // silence before // the deep cracking of ice
Posted in philosophical, poetic, tagged basho, buddhism, koan, zen on September 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The old pond;
A frog jumps in –
The sound of water.
– BashÅ (translated by R.H Blyth)
Not necessarily an easy poem to translate — as the effect is perhaps more important than the meaning (or at least, synonymous with?).
I would like to get up quite early one morning, head down to the small lake, find the biggest [...]
