Less talking, please
More conversing less talking, please.
:- Doug.
Everything’s conversing.
:- Doug.
Archive for September, 2016
Low latent inhibition
It may be that low latent inhibition (thus letting in more environmental information) helps us see things in fresh ways, that is, holistically. Inhibition is sometimes reduced as persons age. Well now, combine that with high intelligence and the result could be a brand of wisdom.
:- Doug.
The ethics is here
The ethics is in more quality conversations—the more conversing, the more beings are engaged in living and loving.
:- Doug.
Reach forth a finger, human
Reach forth a finger, human,
and choose to touch your God
to touch your human companion
this then is conversation:
your holy act
:- Doug.
the womb which bears us
Conversing is the womb which bears me
Conversing is what I start in motion
Conversing is what starts my world in motion
Conversing is with humans, and
Conversing is with anything I touch
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1629–Things the world wants to do
Footprints in the Windsm # 1629
There are things I want to do
There are things the world wants to do
We negotiate
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A common path
Eldering gives us a common path leading to a one-way threshold, and we do not all stop by the same stations on the way. There is no wisdom that all harvest. Some attend, some engage along the way, some roll along kicking and yelling. All fulfill. We each have some choice, as do the people and circumstances we meet, and chance plays upon us all. It is a privilege to notice life along our path, to share it with others. Some will understand. Some will know they need to notice.
:- Doug.
It’s not that aging
It’s not that aging takes us only and inevitably to eldering; choice, chance, and predisposition play roles.
:- Doug.
Elders go where the rest cannot
Elders go where the rest of us cannot go, a liminal land leading across an inevitable threshold. Each person has a particular and yet universal path: some explore light, some shadow, some body, emotions, fun, imagination, everything human divine. Leading on.
:- Doug.
Fire of desire
Emotions add the fire of desire to imagination so to inspire the stories that might transpire.
:- Doug.
labels
Notice if some of that is interpretation. How much of the label affects your response?
:- Doug.
Break from social norms and run
Some older folks are able to break from social norms and run for self disclosure and innocence. Like we might do on vacation, talking to strangers. Freedom, humanity. Freedom from pretending, human vulnerability to opening.
:- Doug.
Dependent co-arising
Dependent co-arising
The Buddha’s way
Is conversation in different robes
Two or more creating each other
Creating their together
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1628–Too many!
Footprints in the Windsm # 1628
Be careful!
Don’t have your mind jump
Through too many hopes!
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