Jan
16
2009
sole to sole, my mirror image and I
striding above and below the deep waters
curious, I dip beneath the surface
stare back up at myself, asleep
didn't you call me? i ask
have I not come and knelt at your side?
the shadow grasps my hand
with a solidity I could never muster
and bursting into flames I can only weep
and...
Jan
15
2009
what spirit speaks the heart re-echoes
its lofty chambers with choric ringing
twist and fold in timely rhythm
the fountain's deep moods springing
unshadowed now, revealed and waking
all forge and fire, veils rent aside
the swallowed sun, see! - beaming again
'cross the rivers, stride in stride
the call's heard round from distant shores
the ferryman's change cast far away
for the...
Jan
14
2009
Jan
12
2009
Is it possible for a system to be both hierarchical AND innately mysterious? Is it possible for self-embedded reciprocity within such a system to lead towards a breaking out of the self same system while still being a part of it on another level? Can NON-understanding be a "part" of ANY system,...
Jan
10
2009
down down down inside there is a silent speech
you sense it with your fingers as they absent-mindedly clasp
the empty space between your palms
a holding on to something that never was
the words are unlike these, and your eyes cannot fix them
into harsh dualities of coincidence
cannot shatter their glass frames
and spill them into false awakening,
for...
Jan
10
2009
I have this feeling that appeals to functional equivalence (or even similarity) are somehow, well, disrespectful, or at least intrinsically misleading. Functional appeals 'work' because they abstract very specific relations from an otherwise fully real and completely embedded situation, and show how regardless of how those relations come about, if they do, then for the purposes of...
Jan
07
2009
To the question:"Is there any art or skill than can not be done with a Zen mindfulness?"
I answered:"No. Even the skill of not being Zenly mindful can be done with Zen mindfulness."
DRAT! Foiled again!
Jan
06
2009
Jan
06
2009
WARNING: PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY MAY PUT HOLES IN YOUR BRAIN. YOUR MIND MIGHT LEAK OUT - IF YOU WANT YOUR MIND IN YOUR BRAIN STOP READING NOW.
Okay, here is a geometric exercise that I find very interesting (for some context about WHY it is interesting, look here).
It is, however, more complicated than the previous one...
Jan
05
2009
my fingers are tapping to an unknown rhythm
a sightless pattern just below consciousness
feeding somewhere in the background of my eyes
it swirls, dives, escalates, tumbles
and words - my God, words! appear
mysteries profuse my skin
invisible knives punctuating reality
letting the dreams out
all the while
tap tap tap
and more: you, unquietly reaching
impossibly leeching, receiving
growing dreams of my dreams
with another...
Jan
03
2009
Now, another challenge was proposed, to proceed to a third transposition inspired by Varela's star cybernetics.
My response:
simplistic/complex ---> multi-ordered simplexity
how to fix/how to engage ---> ascripted re-presencing
compulsive mappings/flexible relations ---> constructive deconstruction
textbook categorizations/situational phenomenologies ---> second-order homeodynamics
control the universe through mapping/participate in the universe through walking its territory --> co-construction of universe and self
dominant masculinist...