Friday, September 29, 2006

Roundup for Sept 28, 2006

Detail from “Seated Woman.” F. Kwan of foot before foot: the photoblog posts text and pictures each morning that are sublime. F has a great talent for finding the exact fractional second in a moment.

A short roundup. I don’t think I sucked much of the juice out of the day, but here is some of what was very interesting:

UnawakenedOne of Buddha-Inside suffers from an encounter with his/her mini-me, an emotional little beast that scurries away from the NOW. “The voice was furious, certainly dissatisfied with what had happened. Following this, strong emotions arose, my body tensed up, and I felt a pain underneath the anger that's on the surface.”

Earn a paycheck choosing the color scheme for the crawlspace faux second tier. Text from blogged ad at kenwilber.com: "Effective immediately, we are looking for a freelance graphic designer/artist. This person would be working directly with Ken and Integral Institute on history-making books and projects."

Ajahn Punnadammo of Bhikkhu’s Blog contemplates the Universe in a Hologram. His link to an article by Michael Talbot tells us that objective reality may not exist. Indeed. One scientist sees evidence from an amazing discovery made in 1982 that “at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.” Indra’s Net, ho!

Here, half of a quote of William James that Nacho posted in WoodMoor Village:
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Mike of Unknowing Mind reminds us “we can't wrap our intellectual brains around enlightenment— it is beyond such description.”

Somewhat similarly, Jai of Blog Blog Woof Woof tells us, “Right meditation is not escapism; it is not meant to provide hiding-places for temporary oblivion.”