Badiou Reflections on the Recent Election 11 9 16b

• Tom Verlaine • Eighty Eights

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.

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.

Cul De Sac - Doldrums

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