“The way is empty, yet no use will drain it. Deep, it is like the ancestor of the myriad creatures.” (Tao, 11) The way is Maternal Void, in that she is always an absence, yet infinitely generative. The womb is an orb whose inner vacancy creates other orbs, like energy signals around the edge of [...]
Archive for February, 2012
The Way: Part 4
Posted in The path, tagged tao on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Way: Part 3
Posted in The path, tagged God, Love, tao, taoism on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Not to honour men of worth will keep the people from contention; not to value goods which are hard to come by will keep them from theft; not to display what is desirable will keep them from being unsettled of mind. All sign regimes, all systems of valuation (of reading and of action) lead to [...]
The Way: Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful yet this is only the ugly; the whole world recognizes the good as the good, yet this is only the bad. The opening is with our Selfhood, whose essence is the snake spirit: this is usually coiled, and so is recognized as beautiful and good. Yet [...]
Nostalgia
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Nostalgia’s a place and a time. But with respect to the path, it’s about time for a global pruning of the rose, in preparation for the onset of spring. Because the infestation is spoiling my view.
The Way: Part 1
Posted in Cosmology on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The way that can be spoken of Is not the constant way The name that can be named Is not the constant name. (The Way, 1) The verse begins with “way”, then duplicates itself, substituting “name” for “way”. Because the way precedes the name. The constant way precedes the nameless constant. And yet the “way” [...]
Why I’m the Qutub of this Time
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Because, irrespective of who I am, how much I know or my own personal rank, what I have is so appalling to the people of the book, so antithetical to their current preoccupation/occupation that, to embrace me would mean instant fana. Instant fana for the lot of them. And this understanding is unconscious within them, [...]
A brighter new Way
Posted in Cosmology on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Way is forever undefined. Small though it is in the unformed state, it cannot be grasped. If kings and lords could harness it, The ten thousand things would naturally obey. Heaven and earth would come together And gentle rain fall. Men would need no more instruction and all things would take their course. Once [...]
The Divine Meme
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Divine meme was constructed solely for your instruction. All who have partaken in its carriage: they are circumstantial to the evidence it provides — to you, and you alone. People join in the song without understanding its meaning: if God can be said to have a trickster component, this is where it is manifest. [...]
Cause and effect
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s sometimes difficult to separate the cause from the effect it has on people who supposedly uphold it. This is not an obstacle to grasping the reality of how things stand — the effect is a meaning of the cause — its “embodied” meaning, its immediate unthinking physical reaction. But you are free to invoke [...]
