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Elucidating
To praise you in reality is to praise oneself, for he who praises the sun thereby praises his own eyes. Rumi Source: pinterestgreat.com via Jenny on Pinterest … [A] 13th-centuryPersian Muslim poet,...
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No Room for Improvements
You would find your own life and the lifeworld itself flourishes with more gracefulness if you just let-go the need to improve yourself. Wait, wait: Don’t misunderstand me. Not recommending that you...
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Dropping the Arrows of Craving
Every day we shoot the arrow of craving from where we are now/here to some other place we are not yet. We crave very deeply for what we do not have and where we do not happen to be. We pull back our...
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Radiant Living
My good brother, Andrew J. Taggart, continues his series of meditations on Radiant Living. I highly recommend Andrew’s work. He is a diligent, insightful counselor who is committed to reinvigorating...
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Daodejing 33
#33* Knowing others: lucidity. Knowing self: brilliance.† Defeating others: strength. Defeating self: discipline. Contentedness: wealth. Perseverance: will. Never losing self: endurance. Dead yet...
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Daodejing 3
#3* Do not encourage excellent abilities, [1] [and] keep people from contention; do not value rare goods, keep people from stealing; do not flaunt the desirable, keep people’s hearts undisturbed....
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Daodejing 71
#71* To know your ignorance is most upright. [1] Not knowing but pretending to know is illness. [2] Just consider shortcomings only as shortcomings: thus, no shortcomings. The Sage has no shortcomings...
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Moving Toward the Great Companion
O Thou Encompassing, thou All, thou One Thou Beauty! Thou Truth! Thou Goodness! Letting-go of Suffering. ceasing Frustration. I come now-here: Waking up and opening out. Moderation and Courage Clear a...
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Flowing / Swaying
Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference...
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The duty of being friends
M-W-F @ 1:00pm, lecture for 8/31/2016. The relationship of philosophizing (caring as skillfulness of mind) to freedom (the duty-to-be-friends) by way of mindful lineage....
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