If you like Nietzsche, Herman Hesse is probably a little boring, predictable, and exiguous. If you're interested in the integration of Eastern wisdom into Western civilization, Hesse probably seems antiquated and naive from any perspective situated within our globalized teletechnocracy ( Read more... )

I often turn to Bodhidharma. He came from the West. His legs suffered some sort of paralysis or extreme atrophy due to his persistent meditative practice. When an emperor asked him for the fundamental teaching of Buddhism, he replied "Vast emptiness, nothing holy." So the emperor asks him who he thinks he is, saying such things. His reply, of ( Read more... )

From Lao Tzu: wei wu wei ce wu bu zhi ( Read more... )

Saying adieu, releasing ourselves into the undecidable mystery of the impossible ( Read more... )

I am not a man, I am dynamite ( Read more... )

Anthropos, transmutated, becomes a microcosmic archetype ( Read more... )

I felt so empty and then I ( Read more... )

I'm writing more journal entries in private these days, as I don't feel like being public about the psychological hermeneutics that pervade my writing. I'm not sure if I feel too misunderstood, or not misunderstood enough. In any case, I'll keep in touch. Keep inside of touch, tactfully intact and in contact, touched that you think(s) this of I ( Read more... )

I should really be quieter, keep my mouth and eyes shut. Withdraw and retreat. I've said too much already ( Read more... )

Kosmos and Anthropos decenter one another. Of course I am anthropocentric. I am always self-centered, ego-centric, centered around this embodied dynamism traditionally referred to as "human." But this center, this anthropomorphic center, is always already de-centered by that which is eccentric -- out of the center. The self is always already ( Read more... )