i have read around &( different translations, and i have found the more translations you read, the clearer they ALL become...including any reading you do in other faiths. one in particular that takes a different and perspective widening view is …
words are tools, are handles we use to get some sort of a grip on the ungraspable. they lose their usefulness, and in fact become detrimental, when we lose sight of the fact they are tools and use them to replace the things they describe:
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hey, i can get going too...and another point on the 'animal' tip: remebering we are animals makes it easier to remember that we are part of the system; one of the ten-thousand things.
the photos are preview images...if you click them, they open to the individual poems.
and i grasp that we are the same animals we have always been, that we are no more or less smart than we have ever been. these thoughts are me walking through m…
http://mrnakes.deviantart.com/gallery/24815911 that's the "meditations" link
http://mrnakes.deviantart.com/gallery/25086495 that's the "prophet" link
sorry about goofin' that up :-)
my reply to "what religion are you?" is invariably:
'religion' is a political framework built around and meant to control 'faith'...i am not big on religion, but i am a taoist by faith.
i thought i would a couple of my latest pieces to this thread...
meditation in haibun
i am but a novice, my understanding is shallow at best: the indifferentiation of uncarved wood; the inter-relation of is and is not and the unity that inte…