Tip Of The Tongue I've been feeling curious, as of late, about the experience of not-quite-but-almost remembering something: of having it right on the tip of the tongue, so to speak. In these moments, there's the distinct sense of knowing that I know something--of almost palpably feeling the presence of this information, pressing up from who-knows-where--yet the final revelation of it has yet to …
Art & Spirit
Parallel Lines
Joy “Don’t cry, it's only music,” someone’s voice is saying. “No one you love is dying.” It’s only music. And it was only spring, the world’s unreasoning body run amok, like a saint’s, with glory, that overwhelmed a young girl into unreasoning sadness. “Crazy,” she told herself, “I should be dancing with happiness.” But it happened again. It happens when we make bottomless …
Melt Your Mind
Fact or Fik-Shun? Absolutely love the joyous playful experimental energy of this freestyle dancing via Fik-Shun (Dushaunt Stegall). What an awesome expression of body-mind-world ~ music-mind-chi continuity it is ... Not to mention the fact that he seems to have found a way to transcend (or deeply befriend) the laws of space-time. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg6-SnUl0A0 …
Restoration
More Than Pocket Change As you may or may not have heard, last November (2017) a painting by Leonardo da Vinci was was auctioned via Christie’s New York -- and sold for a cool $450 million. The painting was the one pictured above: Salvator Mundi, or Savior of the World. Now $450 million -- even for the wealthiest among us -- is more than just pocket change. So what was it about this painting that …
Wild Wild Country
What I most appreciate about Wild Wild Country -- the Netflix documentary about Osho's Oregon community -- is that it poses all variety of interesting questions (social, psychological, spiritual, legal, constitutional) while resisting the temptation to offer heavy-handed answers to any of them. It's a fascinating -- and in moments, quite mind-blowing -- story, with lines between the "good guys" …
Like The Living
Meditation on the Wen-Fu When the Heavenly Arrow is at its fleetest and sharpest, what confusion is there that cannot be brought to order? Lu Chi speaks of the heavenly arrow and the sky parts. Quietly: not with the flourish of trumpets, nor with the clang of bronze doors thrown back, nor with the velvet pomp of the lifting curtain -- but with the almost invisible shift of a cloud that …