indigo scapes
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Understanding Edges...
Between forest and field, a threshold
like stepping from a cathedral into the street–
the quality of air alters, an eclipse lifts,
boundlessness opens, earth itself retextured
into weeds where woods once were.
Even planes of motion shift from vertical
navigation to horizontal quiescence:
there’s a standing invitation to lie back
as sky’s unpredictable theater proceeds.
Suspended in this ephemeral moment
after leaving a forest, before entering
a field, the nature of reality is revealed.
Ravi Shankar, ‘Crossings’
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Dear Human
Dear human,
modern incarnate
for a brief moment.
Neither of the angels,
neither of the demons.
Dear human,
you, where evil and light wrangle,
on some daybreak, will awaken
to remember the reason
of this existence.
Meanwhile, dear human,
through the twists and turns
you belong here
and through this wounded lifetime,
teach others to heal...
- Tara Estacaan, June 05, 2016
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Recollections
Ye blesséd Creatures, I have heard the call
Ye to each other make; I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;
My heart is at your festival,
My head hath its coronal,
The fulness of your bliss, I feel—I feel it all.
William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850,
'Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'
Monday, May 23, 2016
Monday, May 2, 2016
The Mind And Awareness
There is no ideal in observation.
When you have an ideal,
you cease to observe,
you are then merely
approximating the
present to the idea,
and therefore there
is duality, conflict,
and all the rest of it.
The mind has to be in the
state when it can see, observe.
The experience of the observation
is really an astonishing state.
In that there is no duality.
The mind is simply—aware.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
Be Curious, Be Aware
Our business in living
is to become fluent
with the life we are living,
and art can help this.
― John Cage
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