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 25 Aug 2004 @ 12:42, by jazzolog. Ideas, Creativity
If we were not already Buddha, we could not bow to the Buddha. When the Buddha receives our bow, we become one with him. At that very moment the practice of the bow is actualized. The Buddha does not force the practice of the bow upon us, but that which has been offered is brought back to us.
---Dainin Katagiri
Silence is as deep as Eternity; speech as shallow as Time.
---Thomas Carlyle
Those who believe they have plenty of time get ready only at the time of death. Then they are ravaged by regret. But isn't it far too late?
---Padmasambhava
For over 40 years I have honored my teacher, mentor, and friend, John Tagliabue. More recently he has retired from work at Bates College in Maine, relocated with his lovely wife Grace to Rhode Island, and encouraged me to distribute his recent poems on the Internet. He doesn't use computers himself, and a couple years ago wrote an elegy to his manual typewriter. When we returned from Canada yesterday, a small envelope of poems were waiting. I think I'd better get them to you right away.
The photo is of John last year at Bates with 2 students who just won the first John Tagliabue Prize For Creative Writing. [link] More >
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 25 Aug 2004 @ 00:42, by magical_melody. Ideas, Creativity
AT LAST, A FILM FOR US PRACTICAL MYSTICS!
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Are you ready for a spiritual film that combines quantum physics, multi-dimensional visual effects and animation, a dramatic story and interviews with leading scientists and mystics?
What Happens When You Combine Today's Cutting Edge Scientists & Mystics?
Can Science And Religion Really Be On The Same Path? On The Same Planet? In The Same Movie!?
What The Bleep Movie More >
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4 Aug 2004 @ 01:11, by newdawn. Ideas, Creativity
May there always be sunshine
May there always be blue skies
May there always be mama
May there always be me
Repeat this verse in every language in the world
How can this affect humanity? Interconnectedness of life.
May we all see this with our hearts
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 2 Aug 2004 @ 21:29, by centrifuge. Ideas, Creativity
My crazy mind
Brings me bloody platters
To clean and use again
Curious conditions churning within
Weaving foggy wonders
To confuse and misapply
…This fragile origami bird
Is stained and has been folded wrongly
…This drifting creature
Used to fly against the bright sky
With matching colors and thoughts
It would return bearing rainbows
…This earnest miner
Has surfaced with no ore
Instead is empty handed
And is consumed by “black lung”
Unbridled imaginings
And child-like fear
Are in the dust,
stirring
Unfitting halo
And paper wings
…slowly turning…
They are turning into rust.
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 31 Jul 2004 @ 01:07, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
Let Go
The darkness sleeps
I can feel the cool, soft air
It is breathing, slowly
How the light seems harsh! More >
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 29 Jul 2004 @ 18:25, by centrifuge. Ideas, Creativity
Dualistic perspectives of the non-dualistic whole
Have been plaguing my mind with doubt
The truth I’ve sought has been delivered
Yet my mind can’t work it out
Why do I live in conflicting views
Allowing my alter ego to have so much say?
How can this confusion be harnessed and dismantled
Where is the trail of breadcrumbs through this maze?
To be in disagreement with one’s self
Can be healthy to a point
But when it becomes feuding…
It must be time for change.
To be in harmony with one’s self
Seems to be the point
This is the state from which you can see
The way out of the cage
Now is the time of grand transformation
Both for the individual and the whole
Now is the eternal moment of surrendering
To the universe as it unfolds
Do I have the wisdom
To find my place in the story?
Do I have the courage
To join this divine glory?
The future is a reflection of this moment
Where the illusion of past is in-laced
The steady beating of God’s heart
Is bringing the cosmos to age.
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23 Jul 2004 @ 22:37, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
By Fate's Decree
Whispered ardor in my dreams…
Fiery notes are played for me.
What depths shall I in the vortex fall?
Am I lost by fate's decree?
While your love, like errant sunbeams
Burst forth, enthrall. More >
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 19 Jul 2004 @ 11:41, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
Summer
Summer's hot gestures beckon me to cool resting waters
Brings my searing brow yearning for splashes
And giggles and sand in my shoes
For leapings and laughings
Rope swings and squealing twirls
Sunburnt boys and freckled girls
Frogs beware or they will soon ensnare
Your slimy wet greeness.
Oops!
Splash!
There he goes.
© July 31,2000Marissa A Spencer More >
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 16 Jul 2004 @ 21:48, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
Oh Mouse!
Mouse oh mouse you do not work
Push or pull or gently jerk
You roll around without a care
Missing teeth, paws and hair More >
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 14 Jul 2004 @ 20:49, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
Softly Keep
I picked a sweet pink rose today,
And took it in without delay.
A rose like those we once grew,
Made me feel at once brand new,
Mother, your face touched my mind,
Your smile so winsome, your eyes so kind.
I will remember those days gone by,
How we’d laugh and how we’d cry. More >
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