What is the difference between the apple, and the taste of the apple on the tongue?
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What is the difference between the apple, and the taste of the apple on the tongue? Before I start, I want to clarify a few things. Whenever I try and explain my thinking on this subject, there are always a few people who fail to understand what I’m saying. This is clearly my fault for not explaining myself carefully enough, so I’m going to start by laying out my credentials and [...] This is a slightly experimental post using WordPress’s podcasting plug-in for the first time. The Tale of the Sands is a Sufi teaching tale which I retold some years ago for submission to an online competition. The voice tone has a trance-voice quality (intended) and the story explores age old themes of identity and impermanence from, [...] One of my favourite quotes of all time. And it makes sense to me to approach one’s own convictions with a degree of humility, flexibility, joyful uncertainty and playful doubt. Bob did it so well. I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions. I strongly suspect that a world “external to,” or at least [...] In a previous post I wrote about stories as triggers for spiritual growth, as catalysts. But what is it that allows a story to act as such a catalyst? By what virtue does a tale stimulate psycho-spiritual development? In the future, I shall want to explore all those things that enable a story to trigger such [...] “The shortest distance between truth and a human being, is a story.” Many cultures share a process of facilitating spiritual growth through story. Most of us are familiar with koans, stories from the Japanese Zen Buddhist tradition that require the listener to suspend the usual ability to process narrative, to confound rational [...] Everything is alive. What we call dead is an abstraction More archery… I was shooting earlier today, but I’ve graduated to my own bow and set of arrows, The relationship is building over time, and today I became intensely aware that my bow literally sang with joy as its bowness was fulfilled. So I sang with it. But it was the use of the words “my [...] I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe. an old article taken from my old tumblr blog I’ve recently taken up archery with my wife and my daughter, following Oaklore’s shining example. We are only at the training stage, but it certainly seems to qualify as a wholesome family activity, with a health amount of good hearted inter-familial competition being generated. Being at the training [...] |
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