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Monday, August 27, 2018
La Monte Young, Composition 1960 #5
“Turn a butterfly (or any number of
butterflies) loose in the performance area.[...] the composition may
be considered finished when the butterfly flies away.”
La Monte Young, Composition 1960 #5
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Friday, August 24, 2018
Peter H. Clark,
“We protest against the colored man
being listed in the assets of the Republican party as a voting
machine, which simply does the work of its master, and is then
shelved until next election, as is the case in Ohio.” Peter H.
Clark, Cincinnati black activist and the nation's 'first Black
Socialist,' Dayton
Evening Herald, 22
September 1873.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
from Focus.
from Focus.
the
world expands
you
in you
more
than uproars
more
than this
breath
in the tremulous
morning's
back
geese
call rank
and
file
sky-door
door-sky
adornments
fall
forward
with
fancy
and
then not
so
much more
I
am the
bruised
moon
wanting
your
smile and
feet
again
let
the cold
unfold
insensate
smuggles
you
have been
breathing
all day
let
me
tidy
your floor
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Tentative I, from SETTLEMENTS
Tentative
I
Untwine
beneath cod all custom-made
idea
filled never to and not to
fro
aggravation outside hate, silenced
beyond
easement see a distant laugh
zero
readied zero in certainty
segregate
or destroy, dependently eased
on
account of old undesiring gifts.
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Friday, August 10, 2018
Zenkei Blanche Hartman on zazen
“In our zazen practice, we stop our
thinking and we are free from our emotional activity. We don't say
there is no emotional activity, but we are free from it. We don't
say that we have no thinking, but our life activity is not limited by
our thinking mind. In short, we can say that we trust ourselves
completely, without thinking, without feeling, without discriminating
between good and bad, right and wrong. Because we respect ourselves,
because we put faith in our life, we sit. That is our practice.”
Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings
from the Heat, ed. Zenju
Earthlyn Manuel, p. 16.
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Aram Saroyan on Kerouac
“John Kerouac was all set to go the whole route as a well-respected American author, and Jack lost him like a bore at a literary party, and went up on the roof to look at the stars and smoke grass with the bartender.” Aram Saroyan, Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation, NY: William Morrow and Co., 1979, p. 69.
Aram Saroyan, summing up the Sixties
“We
were young, we were arrogant, we were irreverent, we were foolish.
But we were right,” Abbie Hoffman reflected in 1988. A generation
born out of the Trojan Horse of the post-World War II American
Empire, our power was, paradoxically, in our ambivalence about power.
It was also in our numbers, and in the fact that our common ideals
could foster friendship.
Aram
Saroyan, Friends in the World: The Education of a Writer,
Coffee House Press, 1992, p. 129.
Sheng Yen on compassion
Master
Sheng Yen teaches: “Compassion is not sympathy, compassion has no
fixed recipients, and compassion is without a goal. Compassion is
impartially benefiting all sentient beings in just the right way.”
Buddhadharma
(Summer
2006), p. 42.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
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