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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
Feb092012

Occupy Mind

Mind occupies itself,

no matter how much it protests itself.

Self tries to evict itself,

in vain.

 

Politics of psychology...

Psychology of politics...

 

Wednesday
Feb082012

Confidence is a Con

A confident man is a dead human being (Jiddu Krishnamurti).

Confidence is a con (in all of the connotations of the word).

Tuesday
Feb072012

Apophenia

music: iLLababy Tokyo by Moxie Black

text/arrangement: Somov

Monday
Feb062012

Imagination of Math

Math is quantified imagination.

Saturday
Feb042012

The Rules of the Wild

Wild horses tame themselves all the time while tamed horses get wilder and wilder.

Life creates and breaks its own rules.

Saturday
Feb042012

When you touch a single spot on the wall with your finger, are you not touching the entire wall?

Realize: a spot on the wall is just another construct, another artificiality.

A coordinate of attention on this or on that does not create a true "this" or a true "that."

Friday
Feb032012

Metacognitive Luddite

Cognitions are the machinery of the mind.

Mind Luddite, step back (metacognitively) to de-construct these constructions of consciousness!

Friday
Feb032012

Mind is an out-of-body experience

Thinking is an out-of-body experience (as compared to sensing).

Wednesday
Feb012012

Life Data

 

music: Solemn by His Boy Elroy

text/arrangement: Somov

Wednesday
Feb012012

Impermanence

 

music: Speaker Bunny by DJ Reset

text/arrangement: Somov

Tuesday
Jan312012

Am-ness

 

music: Winds of Change by Jap Jap

text/arrangement: Somov

Tuesday
Jan312012

A Non-Discursive

"Plain talking (plain talking)

Served us so well (served us so well)

We travelled through hell (travelled through hell)

Know how we felt (oh how we felt)"

 

Moby's right: language is suffering.

 

Tuesday
Jan312012

Sublimate Not!

Self-sacrifice is sublimated self-care.

Sublimate not!

Tuesday
Jan312012

Gravity of Self

Self-sacrifice is self-care; self-care is self-sacrifice.

Whatever Self chooses to do, it does so for its own sake.

The water of well-being flows only one way.

Monday
Jan302012

Untie Yourself

Are you again running at the speed of light, with your shoe laces untied?

Sunday
Jan292012

Messenger Lives Another Day

Buddhism is a well-camouflaged atheism. Atheism is a poorly packaged religion. However you disguise your assumptions, remember not to kill the messenger.

Sunday
Jan292012

A TV That Watches Itself

Mind is its own TV: it watches itself. Turn it off.

Sunday
Jan292012

A mirror does not discriminate. Its distortion is equally unbiased.

Sunday
Jan292012

All Ground is a Path

"One Ground, two Paths," masters say.

Dunno about that: Ground I see, but I see no Paths (other than the innumerable ones I mark with my mind).

So, I say: all Ground is one Path.

Friday
Jan272012

Poetry & Coffee

Fishing for Elusiveness... in poetry and coffee