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Welcome. What you will find here will be my random thoughts and reactions to various books I have read, films I have watched, and music I have listened to. In addition I may (or may not as the spirit moves me) comment about the fantasy world we call reality, which is far stranger than fiction.

Showing posts with label Taoism. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Taoism. Show all posts

Saturday, September 9, 2017

A Minute Meditation

Outwardly the enlightened seem the same as everybody else. Inwardly, however, their distinctive trait is that they have no goal, but simpl...

Friday, December 16, 2016

Jane Austen's Fanny Price: A Taoist Sage at Mansfield Park

Jane Austen Mansfield Park Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 and died on July 18, 1817. Fanny Price, of Mansfield Park, ( M...

Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Summer Solstice

I thought I would post this, the first known poem in English about summer today, since it is the Summer Solstice, or the First Day of Summer...

Friday, June 8, 2012

T'ao Ch'ien: a June poem

Reading the Book of Hills and Seas In the month of June the grass grows high And round my cottage thick-leaved branches sway. There is n...

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Something to think about:

The mass of people believe their judgements to be their own. They get very offended when it is suggested that they have actually received ...

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