Mindfulness
Taoism & Higher Learning
I dislike higher learning, yes at this present moment, it’s unsettling. Higher education is an organization for academic achievement of advanced thought through research. It also is an environment where all meaningful thinking originated with humans, specifically White men. This essay is not about race but the (perceived) disconnection from Taoism by the author. I have become the unconscionable ringmaster of a circus…
On a Personal Note…
I had a childhood marred with dysfunctional behaviors and maladaptive developmental stages. Often violence or the threat of viciousness was a communication tool for my era of adolescence. I would like to blame my mother and father, but it would not help. However, their lives were marred in spilt-second decisions of survival, I praise them however for their effort to get my siblings and I along as best possible. Nevertheless, my maladaptive habits soaked my psyche and rendered me abnormal. As a result, I ran away in my childhood to the form of violence, threat of violence or solitude…
James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers”
All this enters the child’s consciousness much sooner than we as adults would like to think it does. As adults, we are easily fooled because we are so anxious to be fooled. But children are very different. Children, not yet aware that it is dangerous to look too deeply at anything, look at everything, look at each other, and draw their own conclusions….
How Does One Maintain Deep Peace?
Lately my life has become submerged in clouds of “Busy Work”. This phrase (Busy Work) I learned from students as it describes activities of routine and not of passion. As you are aware, the musings are far too between here on the Dragon, reason? (My mind is trapped in Busy Work). By the way, the longhand journal I keep does not recognize the ink of my pen. WTF, I am a stranger until myself.
12 Things about the Tao and I
Taoism is a philosophy crafted by the consciousness of the individual. As such, The Way does not need a guru or master to learn its wisdom. In addition, you cannot fall or rise to an imaginary pious status with The Way.
