D.T. Suzuki jottings
Posted: October 21, 2019 Filed under: Buddhism Zen, people, states of mind, writers Leave a comment
This is part of several fragments and notes jotted down on the back of an envelope by D.T. Suzuki and published in The Eastern Buddhist in Vol XXXIII No. 2 in 2001. They were immediate flashes of his inner experience and understanding as contrasted with the careful prose found in his essays and books.
A second coming?
Posted: July 20, 2019 Filed under: people, poetry, states of mind, writing Leave a commentThe Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Long ago & far away
Posted: June 15, 2019 Filed under: people, photography, places, time, time and space 1 Comment
I think this is pre-Dallas Morning News days, probably around 1969 in Denton, a carefree time when the world began to send me off to places unknown, unimaginable, rewarding and still mysterious.
Old friends and Worm
Posted: June 7, 2019 Filed under: books, places, time and space 2 Comments
Old friends and Worm in a painting by Frank X. Tolbert2. My dog was caught in a flashlight beam on top of a flattop mountain near Talpa in West Texas.
