tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post3940639870010363279..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: The Houses Are Haunted by White NightgownsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-83527664845898147052023-02-03T08:46:19.253-05:002023-02-03T08:46:19.253-05:00The Guest House
This being human is a guest house...<b>The Guest House</b><br /><br />This being human is a guest house.<br />Every morning a new arrival.<br /><br />A joy, a depression, a meanness,<br />some momentary awareness comes<br />as an unexpected visitor.<br /><br />Welcome and entertain them all!<br />Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,<br />who violently sweep your house<br />empty of its furniture,<br />still, treat each guest honorably.<br />He may be clearing you out<br />for some new delight.<br /><br />The dark thought, the shame, the malice,<br />meet them at the door laughing,<br />and invite them in.<br /><br />Be grateful for whoever comes,<br />because each has been sent<br />as a guide from beyond.<br /><br />Jalaluddin Rumi<br />from Rumi: Selected Poems, trans Coleman Barks with John Moynce, A. J. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson (Penguin Books, 2004)mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-40728006657707795652023-02-02T15:48:30.011-05:002023-02-02T15:48:30.011-05:00speaking of disillusionment - as the title of wall...speaking of <b>disillusionment</b> - as the title of wallace stevens' poem does - caitlin johnstone asserts:<br /><br />Once you get a penetrating insight into how much of our civilization is comprised of narratives people made up, it changes your view of everything. Politics. Government. The media. Money. The economy. Religion. Culture. Even your very self. Our entire species moves in accordance with made-up stories.<br /><br />You might think a clear recognition that our entire society is made of bullshit would be a negative experience, and at first it can be, but what's ultimately understood is something very positive: that if our entire civilization is made up, then we can simply make up something else. Something better. Something that works for all of us.<br /><br />https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/were-ruled-by-assholes-because-wemistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-72418726484962041762023-02-01T13:21:25.269-05:002023-02-01T13:21:25.269-05:001/speaking of new words in the anthropocene - rece...1/speaking of new words in the anthropocene - recently i saw <b>pandemicene</b><br /><br />2/once i attended a sufi meeting at atomic books in baltimore<br /><br />the guy next to me said "i'm saul - like in the bible" - i replied "i'm david - like in the bible"<br /><br />a meditation exercise we did that night was 'reversing space' - here are directions from reshad feild's book <i>the last barrier</i><br /><br />Sitting very still, with all attention focused in the center of the chest, and slowly surrendering and realizing that:<br />instead of looking, you are being observed;<br />instead of hearing, you are being heard;<br />instead of touching, you are being touched;<br />instead of tasting, you are food for God<br />and are being tasted.<br />So make yourself good tasting.<br /><br />Finally allow yourself to be breathed.<br /><br />Abandon yourself completely in trust, and in the realization that you are powerless in the face of God, the First Cause.<br />mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.com