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May.30.2009
He calls it "the poetry wars." The little world of poetry. The pie, i.e., the poetry pie... there's never enough to go around. Awards, publications, readings, honors, "A" and "B" list parties... a slice of this, a slice of that. My distinguished friend tells me of a...
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Mar.31.2009
When young, the mind keeps on asking "What is this?"
Is this question a moment of learning or... the beginning of blindness?
When the mind asks "What is this?" it pulls together several incoming streams of sensory feedback into a perceived - but still nameless - whole. And as...
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Mar.21.2009
A koan is a kind of question used as a training device in the Buddhist tradition, designed to help the aspirant attain a degree of clarity. I'm sure you've come across these zany questions before ("What's the sound of one hand clapping?" or "If a tree falls in the forest and no one...
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Mar.17.2009
In my teens (when I was still living in the USSR) I had a neighbor who was blind. He seemed imperturbable, monolithic, settled yet spontaneous and relaxed. I never knew anyone like that until I started reading about Zen masters with their notorious mix of non-threatening confidence and...
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Feb.20.2009
""There’s only one way out of prison, which is to set your jailer free."
Grebenschikov (The Time, Radio Silence, 1989 CBS Records).
The mind is its own hostage. Each belief, each schema, each defense is both an adaptation and a handicap. The very anchors that have helped you feel...
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Dec.28.2008
am i losing you now that i've begun a blog elsewhere? i've just uploaded my 2nd post there
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Dec.25.2008
I cultivate the special quality of being content with very few possessions. Millions of people around the world wear clothes discarded by others, dwell in makeshift homes, eat less than their hungry bellies yearn for.
Though I need not worry about scrounging my next meal or that I will shiver...
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Nov.16.2008
In my former work as a clinical director of a drug and alcohol treatment program in a county jail and in my current outpatient work with substance use clients I continuously come across a certain iatrogenic (treatment-related) legacy of powerlessness which stems directly from the 1st of the 12...
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Nov.10.2008
The existential "alphabet" of Being begins not with the letter A, but with the verb "to Be," which in its turn takes root from the so-called "B-root," the Proto-Indo-European language base of the verb "to be." The "B-root" (bheu or bhu) - from which...
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Nov.10.2008
Men, drunk, in unfinished basements.Models, entertaining, in furnished lofts.
Absence and pretense:a future so cliché it’s already past tense...
Except for a blade of grass,swaying in the wind,that simplystands.
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