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 15 Mar 2005 @ 20:50
What if you lived on an itinerant floating city?
What then?
What would your address be? More >
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 13 Mar 2005 @ 03:31
Anomie:
Greek anomia, lawlessness,
from anomos, without law.
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 11 Mar 2005 @ 16:18
There is always a path amongst the rocks
and through the trees where the sound is calm
and silence broken only by the call of a bird in flight. More >
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 10 Mar 2005 @ 08:43
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 9 Mar 2005 @ 22:35
Photo: Bill Irwin in Samuel Beckett's Texts for Nothing
Time and again, philosophy finds that it can express itself best, not in cold and hard concepts, but in intricate metaphors. Plato used the story of the cave to illustrate Being and becoming. Indian philosophers often used stock metaphors to support their argument. In Chinese Buddhism too, key metaphors have helped to define and even to win important debates. In the evolution of early Ch'an, the metaphors of water and waves, mirror and lamp played significant roles.
The following article by Whalen Lai examines the meanings of these Ch'an metaphors and their related texts.
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 8 Mar 2005 @ 01:16
La nuit étoilée ( cyprès et village ), Saint-Rémy, juin 1889 - Huile sur toile, 73,7 x 92,1 cm
The Agony and the Ecstasy:
"These moods of tremendous happiness that the Romantics felt, when they believed that life was absolutely glorious and couldn't imagine that anybody would want to die. But they woke up the next morning thinking 'what the bloody hell was that all about?' and plunged straight back into this gloom. And that seemed to me to be the real question. More >
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 7 Mar 2005 @ 00:55
Illustration: Carson Ellis, Ghost Ship, 36" x 36", oil on canvas, 2002
I am a sea with doors, but the doors are stuck.
Watch out! The skin will burst; the doors will break.
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 6 Mar 2005 @ 16:36
of this Island
is one who would ask
what you are looking for here.
Who are you, and are you prepared
for any and all that might come along
during your explorations? Again,
even if you think you are alone,
there is always someone else here.
Horizon beckons. More >
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 6 Mar 2005 @ 03:49
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 6 Mar 2005 @ 01:35
Litanies of the Rose
— by Remy de Gourmont
Rose with dark eyes,
mirror of your nothingness,
rose with dark eyes,
make us believe in the mystery,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence. More >
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