January 19, 2015
T.S. Eliot: “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
January 11, 2015
“Do not call to mind the former things,
Or ponder things of the past.
Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will ever make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the Desert…” ~Isaiah 43:18-19
December 27, 2014
My beloved long time companion has left for another world.
Baruch Dayan Emet. ברוך דין אמת
November 26, 2014
Thinking about what is happening in Israel, I cannot find anything better than the below, from Kurosawa’s MACBETH, which I’ve already posted a few times, but it never gets old. Besides that I can now lift my left arm to about 160 degrees, Barucha Ha Shem…(yes, feminine on purpose).
Look upon the ruins
Of the castle of delusion,
Haunted only now
By the spirits
Of those who perished.
A scene of carnage
Born of consuming desire,
Never changing
Now and throughout eternity.
October 17, 2014
I’m preparing to enter the underworld in less than 48 hours.
October 13, 2014
Why do you replace the pupils of your eyes with black beans? There is a way, easy to tread! Its as easy and plain as a pair of scales. Just avoid hankering after attractive side-shows and in time you will enter the Imperial City.
–Chan Master Han Shan.
October 6, 2014
Hey! fun that Film Comment mentioned my new film….
October 5, 2014
Look upon the ruins
Of the castle of delusion,
Haunted only now
By the spirits
Of those who perished.
A scene of carnage
Born of consuming desire,
Never changing
Now and throughout eternity.
October 4, 2014
The Prophet Muhammed is reported to have said:
“Whomever loves to meet God; God loves to meet them”.
September 19, 2014
Astride the Ox, I reach home. I am serene. The Ox too can rest. The dawn has come. In blissful repose, Within my thatched dwelling I have abandoned the whip and ropes |
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In the beginning stages it is like swimming upstream. Hard, diligent practice is needed to make headway against the current of the mind. Here there is no need for the swimmer. The swimmer and the water have become one. Practice is no longer done for a goal, to get somewhere. Life itself is practice.