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One of the most powerful commentaries on Pinchas’ act is written into the very fabric of Torah itself. The Masoretes – the 8th and 9th century rabbinic sages who codified the written Torah into the... More »
Hi Mike~ It's not so much that one viewpoint predominates, but that the viewer engages in the what, why and wherefore of the opposing view, and you are always ready to do this. So, it... More »
Sprinklepot Continued... I stayed home from school one day five years earlier with a slight stomachache. Really, I just didn’t feel like going. I can assure you Karma took care of that lie big time.... More »
Thanks! Good Night! May He Who Is Enough, Bless you and Keep you, May He Who Is Enough, let His Chessed Embrace you and Light you Path, May He Who Is Enough turn His eternal... More »
from way back when,lost in the haze of time, but firmly etched in the bosom of my fondest memories: there you stand, tall and strong, my role model; my early hero, master of such triumphs... More »
from way back when, lost in the haze of time, but firmly etched in the bosom of my fondest memories: there you stand, tall and strong, my role model; my early hero, master... More »
from way back when, lost in the haze of time, but firmly etched in the bosom of my fondest memories: there you stand, tall and strong, my role model; my early hero, master... More »
from way back when, lost in the haze of time, but firmly etched in the bosom of my fondest memories: there you stand, tall and strong, my role model; my early hero, master... More »
After reading what Batchelor has to say I looked in a book by Wilber's friend Traleg Kyabgon, who as I recall Wilber implies is "integral" in Integral Spirituality, to see what Traleg has to say... More »
Would there be any interest in a totally irregular gathering of Zaadzters/Gaians in south Austin? I am thinking of something like meeting at the Green Muse or at Casa de Luz on occasion and just... More »
Tom
Sometimes thing just happen. When I visited my mother last weekend in Linz/Austria I just took the car to have a nice dinner in a countryside restaurant next door, which unfortunately - was closed, so... More »
michaelsits
I stayed home from school one day five years earlier with a slight stomachache. Really, I just didn’t feel like going. I can assure you Karma took care of that lie big time. The early... More »
TeresaSilverthorn
I I have good news, and I have bad news. Interestingly, they're one in the same. Before we go forward, into the future of our world, let's take one more step backwards and see what... More »
siafu
from way back when, lost in the haze of time, but firmly etched in the bosom of my fondest memories: there you stand, tall and strong, my role model; my early hero, master of... More »
IAAM2
Yesterday I did some internet research on the importance of routine when pursuing creative endeavors and expression. Often my creative process is short circuited by my not scheduling time and effort to do the work!!!... More »
Praveer
This is my place. It's in the community park just outside my little ground floor flat. I head out to the park for a quick round at odd intervals,day or night. It's a large park... More »
Spiritual Liberation
Life is funny. Funny, funny, funny. It's beyond funny. It's freaking hilarious. Do you know what I've discovered? I've discovered that when I am alone for 4 days, not only am I able to see... More »
Zummy Bear
Okay, so I went through my old walkabout notes and wrote up one of the entries that I had previously skipped when I started getting behind in this blog way back in March of last... More »
Rakey Master Dan
The Art of Not Being Offended By Dr. Jodi Prinzivalli There is an ancient and well-kept secret to happiness which the Great Ones have known for centuries. They rarely talk about it, but they use... More »
CLeo
~SwitchFeet~ I couldn't help it - it's one of my fave videos. :) "...So...my dear. I've arrived to find..." Fascinating messages... Interesting questions... ~You haunt my mind~ Burning questions. Time after time, replay. ~where are... More »
The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition, coordination - in a word, experience. Climbing, in particular, is a paradoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of effort, balance and consequences. It is like playing chess with your body. If I make a mistake, the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing and possibly painful. For a brief period, I am directly responsible for my actions. In that beautiful, silent world of the mountains, it seems to me worth a little risk.
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
For all their wealth of content, for all the sum of history and social institution invested in them, music, mathematics, and chess are resplendently useless (applied mathematics is a higher plumbing, a kind of music for the police band). They are metaphysically trivial, irresponsible. They refuse to relate outward, to take reality for arbiter. This is the source of their witchery.
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. . . .
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Hi Las Vegas, or Zaadsters & the Beautiful People of Gaia visiting Vegas for the weekend, The... More »
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