bodhidave
@bodhidave.bsky.social
humanistic psychodynamic Buddhist deconstructionist ... and all-round sweet guy
interested in cross-cultural parallels in contemplative practice
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https://utexas.academia.edu/DavidCollins
[header is the rock garden at Ryōan-ji; avatar is an enso]
interested in cross-cultural parallels in contemplative practice
.
https://utexas.academia.edu/DavidCollins
[header is the rock garden at Ryōan-ji; avatar is an enso]
I did some visualization of this guy in last night's meditation.
🙏 🙂
🙏 🙂
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I did some visualization of this guy in last night's meditation.
🙏 🙂
🙏 🙂
Thanks much, sis. Part of the education is learning "mild" here means "not severe," which means "did not lose consciousness for more than 5 minutes." So, yes, "hydrate, rest — and go to the ER if you feel worse." Currently sensitive to bright light, a little "emo," and headachey. But getting better.
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thanks much, sis. Part of the education is learning "mild" here means "not severe," which means "did not lose consciousness for more than 5 minutes." So, yes, "hydrate, rest — and go to the ER if you feel worse." Currently sensitive to bright light, a little "emo," and headachey. But getting better.
Thank-you. I've felt steady, if gradual, improvement over the course of today.
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Thank-you. I've felt steady, if gradual, improvement over the course of today.
hehe ... sage advice
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
hehe ... sage advice
"prove me wrong" will be some kinda rebuttal tho 🤔
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"prove me wrong" will be some kinda rebuttal tho 🤔
[raising a glass to you] toast
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
[raising a glass to you] toast
Buddhists have a similar reflection — the four "immeasurable" positive qualities (also known as the Brahma viharas, which means something like "divine dwellings"). Each has a somewhat similar-but-not "near enemy," and an opposite "far enemy."
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Buddhists have a similar reflection — the four "immeasurable" positive qualities (also known as the Brahma viharas, which means something like "divine dwellings"). Each has a somewhat similar-but-not "near enemy," and an opposite "far enemy."
In an ritual Q&A after an intense Zen retreat in Berkeley, I once asked the abbot, Mel Weitsman:
"Zen master Nanquan said, 'If you try to approach it, you'll miss it.' So what are we to do?"
Mel said: "Don't try so hard."
That was helpful to me. I smiled and I bowed.
And Mel said, "Like *that.*"
"Zen master Nanquan said, 'If you try to approach it, you'll miss it.' So what are we to do?"
Mel said: "Don't try so hard."
That was helpful to me. I smiled and I bowed.
And Mel said, "Like *that.*"
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My cups I runneth over.
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My cups I runneth over.
The sad potential then, though, is that those "poems" are too often engaged with as literal propositions and unquestionable postulates. Then there arises the brittle likelihood of dogmatic conceit and "idolatry."
🙏 ❤️
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🙏 ❤️
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November 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The sad potential then, though, is that those "poems" are too often engaged with as literal propositions and unquestionable postulates. Then there arises the brittle likelihood of dogmatic conceit and "idolatry."
🙏 ❤️
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🙏 ❤️
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I do not know Foucault or Pyrrho well. I am reminded however that with the contemplatives, a phrase like "o próprio princípio do saber e do conhecimento" can entail a principle *before words and conceptualization.* In those cases any words used to describe that experiential place will be poems.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I do not know Foucault or Pyrrho well. I am reminded however that with the contemplatives, a phrase like "o próprio princípio do saber e do conhecimento" can entail a principle *before words and conceptualization.* In those cases any words used to describe that experiential place will be poems.
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somebody's ravin' ... um ... evermore
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
somebody's ravin' ... um ... evermore
i'll take this tho as an excuse to post Leonard Cohen and Jennifer Warnes singing "Joan of Arc" — not sure about all the images here, but the song is pretty wonderful www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwU...
Joan of Arc - Jennifer Warnes & Leonard Cohen
YouTube video by EileenML aka Adamfulgence
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November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
i'll take this tho as an excuse to post Leonard Cohen and Jennifer Warnes singing "Joan of Arc" — not sure about all the images here, but the song is pretty wonderful www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwU...
From Nammalvar (8th c. Vaishnava saint and poet, translated in A.K. Ramanujan, *Nammalvar: Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Visnu*).
The Tamil has three pronoun forms — to indicate "this here," "that there," and "the in-between." And in the original the subject of the poem, "he," is its last word.
The Tamil has three pronoun forms — to indicate "this here," "that there," and "the in-between." And in the original the subject of the poem, "he," is its last word.
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
A longtime meditator, I'm perhaps on an other end — cultivating non-linguistic experiencing and "exporting" wordless modes into phenomenal experience, as in synesthesias. Language for portraying such experiencing then typically carries an effectively poetic character. thesideview.co/journal/deco...
Deconstructing Mindfulness
There’s been a marked increase in studies of mindfulness and meditation in recent years.
thesideview.co
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A longtime meditator, I'm perhaps on an other end — cultivating non-linguistic experiencing and "exporting" wordless modes into phenomenal experience, as in synesthesias. Language for portraying such experiencing then typically carries an effectively poetic character. thesideview.co/journal/deco...
Maybe start with wardrobe — like, I understand Steven Wright's shirt size is "extra medium."
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Maybe start with wardrobe — like, I understand Steven Wright's shirt size is "extra medium."
this was the view looking west from under the tree
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
this was the view looking west from under the tree