Tao Te Ching Chapter 17
The very highest we get glimpses of now and again. It is a true pleasure. I heard a while back that one who is enlightened does not have to stay enlightened, it is a sort of state or way of being of which one can drift in and out. The glimpse of the divine occurs with us in many ways and I am sure we are not even aware of what it is we are witnessing.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
The Coachmen
This is the new (old) 1986 Coachmen Crusader. She is 23 feet long. Not sure yet of a name. Many thanks to the Bloos family for their kindness and good hearted nature. This drives like a dream. Fun summer lies in store to be sure.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Tao Te Ching Chapter 16
Tao Te Ching Chapter 16
Rise and fall. We watch and wait and are active and moving and doing and hopefully just being. Wait. relax. Did you ever go to the beach and sit and watch the waves come in. Twilight as the night begins to over take and last vestige of blue in the sky. Watching the water turn darker, watching the sky turn darker. Pin pricks of light coming through the curtain of night and the moon low sort of shimmers on the water. The sound of the waves rise and fall. rythm of the earth. laying on the sand half buried by the last warmth.
Great Island on Cape Cod. about half way down to the point. That is the essence of nature.
Peace
Rise and fall. We watch and wait and are active and moving and doing and hopefully just being. Wait. relax. Did you ever go to the beach and sit and watch the waves come in. Twilight as the night begins to over take and last vestige of blue in the sky. Watching the water turn darker, watching the sky turn darker. Pin pricks of light coming through the curtain of night and the moon low sort of shimmers on the water. The sound of the waves rise and fall. rythm of the earth. laying on the sand half buried by the last warmth.
Great Island on Cape Cod. about half way down to the point. That is the essence of nature.
Peace
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Tao Te Ching Chapter 15
Tao Te Ching Chapter 15
I am not sure if anybody else reads the Tao. The Tao Te Ching is the Book of Changes or the book of the way. It is a collection of chapters written sometime like around 4 BC in China by Lao Tsu. We saw the birthplace of Lao Tsu when we were visiting China.
I think that this chapter is key in the view of others. We do not know much of anything outside of ourselves. We only know the appearance of things and can then infer or put ourselves into that which we see. Thus when we look at those things we each see something different is what we see is really a reflection of ourselves.
When I look at those things the 10,000 things can I view them and the master is described? Can I remain still and really see or do I glance around the only catch the reflection of myself in the world of which I am surrouned?
I am not sure if anybody else reads the Tao. The Tao Te Ching is the Book of Changes or the book of the way. It is a collection of chapters written sometime like around 4 BC in China by Lao Tsu. We saw the birthplace of Lao Tsu when we were visiting China.
I think that this chapter is key in the view of others. We do not know much of anything outside of ourselves. We only know the appearance of things and can then infer or put ourselves into that which we see. Thus when we look at those things we each see something different is what we see is really a reflection of ourselves.
When I look at those things the 10,000 things can I view them and the master is described? Can I remain still and really see or do I glance around the only catch the reflection of myself in the world of which I am surrouned?
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
aboatman - aboatman's Google Page
aboatman - aboatman's Google Page
This is my new site at Google Pages. It is an easy to create website interface that publishes right up to google. No trouble at all. This is really very cool. The features are straitforward and the pages look pretty good. It is sort of blogger like but different too.
This is my new site at Google Pages. It is an easy to create website interface that publishes right up to google. No trouble at all. This is really very cool. The features are straitforward and the pages look pretty good. It is sort of blogger like but different too.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
The Arch at St. Louis
Got this driving in morning rush hour traffic out the front window of the 1986 Coachmen. Great Trip for Spring Break.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Chapter 14
This is one that goes deeper then deep. Often looking out there is always a label. Always a defination. Always something to constrain or box. I am thinking that we must elimate the boxes. The boxes that in which be put others espically. It is time to free them all. The convinence and the ease in which I place people there is dangerous.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Latte Art
I made it to Intelligensia yesterday. Also to Carabou coffee, also to the Map Room. For Lattes. The coffee art comes from Intelligensia. It was a good cup of coffee too.
Keep on keeping on.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Tao Te Ching Chapter 13
Tao Te Ching Chapter 13
Here I wonder. The word disgrace is not to the liking of our way of thinking. The word sounds as if we have lost all and it is time for harikari. But the explaination of the word, the sentance, makes for understanding. There is no shame. Remove the feelings from the results and really everything is okay. Is it then when we have really removed our ego from the world that we are able to love it completly.
Here I wonder. The word disgrace is not to the liking of our way of thinking. The word sounds as if we have lost all and it is time for harikari. But the explaination of the word, the sentance, makes for understanding. There is no shame. Remove the feelings from the results and really everything is okay. Is it then when we have really removed our ego from the world that we are able to love it completly.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Tao Te Ching Chapter 12
Tao Te Ching Chapter 12
We sek and seek. We run and do. We overload on all of the thinkgs that are offered from a full life. Do we sit. Reflect. Wait. I am wondering if that which is lost in those pursuits is really nothing. nothing changes in our race for that whatever the outside thinkg may be. Nothing changes becuase we are not allowing ourselves time for us to change. For the inner being to flourish and grow and evolve. We continue to move forward in a material position and yet that striving and earning and outward growth is the thing that is really preventing that inner. Take the time today and the next few to stop the race and recharge the batteries of the soul.
We sek and seek. We run and do. We overload on all of the thinkgs that are offered from a full life. Do we sit. Reflect. Wait. I am wondering if that which is lost in those pursuits is really nothing. nothing changes in our race for that whatever the outside thinkg may be. Nothing changes becuase we are not allowing ourselves time for us to change. For the inner being to flourish and grow and evolve. We continue to move forward in a material position and yet that striving and earning and outward growth is the thing that is really preventing that inner. Take the time today and the next few to stop the race and recharge the batteries of the soul.
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