Take no notes
Because the one who takes the notes controls the conversation, in wild and pure conversation there ought be no notes made.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
other traditions of compassion?
Compassion training is the next step: we know of Buddhist meta practices, but what do other traditions have to offer us?
:- Doug.
We make (we think)
We make/create/find conversation (or so we think) and then conversation creates us, and then we create conversation, and then . . . .
:- Doug.
The profound switch
This is the profound switch: to go from conversation about to about conversation. Conversation, how do you do your magic? What do you, conversation, need?
:- Doug.
To come closer
If we propose to come closer to one another, to develop compassion and fellow-feeling, then we might develop self-compassion. This might be done through self-compassion contemplation practices.
:- Doug.
Surreptitiously might we
Surreptitiously might we increase compassion and its relatives fairness, equanimity, and equality, by planting mind seeds? Pointing out caring, showing a picture of someone in pain, telling a story of care-giving? No advocacy. Just humanity.
:- Doug.
Don’t return these to the library
Things you get at the library
You don’t have to return
As long as you pass them along
Warmth on a cool day
Cool on a hot
Smiles
Studies and meetings and light
:- Doug.
131 degrees left
We think along the way we have thought. It is a straight line. We did not know we could turn 131 degrees left, let alone some degrees off horizontal. Until the straight line got broken. Break the straight line.
:- Doug.
We can never understand one another
We cannot understand one another. Impossible. We each have a different set of data. This is good. It inserts variances. Gates we didn’t even see get unlocked.
:- Doug.
Until I start to write
I think I know what I think: but I don’t until I start to write. From that trinket box I need to pluck out this: what I wrote is no longer what I think. What to do? Write and talk and write some more.
:- Doug.
How they become malleable
Humans are malleable, their conversations more so. It is through their conversations they become malleable. Work the conversations to work the society to work humans.
:- Doug.
Stones in the stream
My mind wants to jump ahead, skipping two or three of the stones across the stream; I must watch myself lest I leave my reader behind. Even if I make a quantum leap.
:- Doug.
Jumping-in
The studies (architecture, theater, temenos, Ruach, etc.) are not intended as proofs. They are places for jumping-in.
:- Doug.
Having something to
It is not about having something to say
This life
It is about having something to hear
:- Doug.
Not common
“They are not common”
He said
“these deep-thinking authentic people”
“O they’re everywhere” I protested
“Just need to hear them out”
:- Doug.
Open more than stories?
Here is a continuum of opening space: from statements through questions through story, we move from mainly closing of space toward full opening. Wonder: is there something to open us more than stories?
:- Doug.
Pro-life fly swatter
If you are pro-life and own a fly swatter, it is all a matter of where you draw your lines. Do you eat meat?
:- Doug.
