Mindstream Index

About MINDSTREAM [making sense of nonsense]:       

Pattern Interruption Non-News has no informational value, just potential experiential value.  [Food-for-thought, by definition, comes with indigestion.  If food-for-thought goes down easy, it's not food-for-thought but just brain-candy.]

I write this freely, unafraid of self-contradiction.  And I encourage you to read this blog with the same attitude of interpretive freedom.

Walt Whitman:  Do I contradict myself?  Very well, then I contradict myself.  I am large: I contain multitudes.

Confusion* is enlightenment [of sorts].

confusion =  letting go of the known + stepping into the unknown = openness of mind

Thursday
May232013

Caught in Cotard's

Wednesday
May222013

(No Subject)

I saw a bead of water waiting in line for its turn to drip. Patiently.

Wednesday
May222013

Mind Blinds

Trillions of sentient eyes have looked at the sky and only few were able to see beyond their own mind.

Wednesday
May222013

(No Subject)

Wednesday
May222013

(No Subject)

Rumi: brother, stand the pain; escape the poison of your impulses; the sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.

Monday
May202013

(No Subject)

Friday
May172013

(No Subject)

Friday
May172013

Karmic Lineage

Individual life is a karmic unfolding, an unfolding lineage of forms. (Who am I writing this for? For myself. As part of my own unfolding. I am not committed to this language: it's arbitrary. This idea (these ideas) can be phrased a million different ways. Form/phrasing is contextual, thus, irrelevant. But I am committed (if only for now) to the idea behind this form.)

Friday
May172013

Self-Determinism of Karma

There is no "and" in cause-and-effect. Cause and Effect are one and the same uninterrupted flow of reality. Mind breaks up the flow of this reality into Cause and Effect b/c of its information-processing limitations, essentially, dropping out of the flow of "What Is" to deal with it (by categorizing it). So, when you choose a Cause, you choose an Effect. That's Karma: karma is not fate, karma is self-determinism.

Friday
May172013

Food, the Common Denominator

Friday
May172013

(No Subject)

Friday
May172013

Play, the Common Denominator

Friday
May172013

Sky, the Common Denominator

Thursday
May162013

The sky is still black. But birds are already busy chirping with the enthusiasm of a graveyard shift that is about to go home.

Wednesday
May152013

"Symbolism must be eliminated. Once we end symbolism, we are also participating in the demise of cultism and superstition." (Edgar Ridley).

Wednesday
May152013

Streets of Perspective

Wednesday
May152013

Streets of Perspective

Wednesday
May152013

Tuesday
May142013

We learn a lot more from what we don't like than from what we like.

Tuesday
May142013