“A Human being is a part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein
a meadow of sage and mule deer live near here,
where high desert volcanoes lift the wind
and clouds cascade into sunset
with another quality red hills' pinot going down...
life ain't what you thought, or what you think.
perhaps, life is the uniqueness (moreover)
of vast forms, which may well-upward from emptiness.
"emptiness" defined by allowing the cosmos' gnosis
to become the influential plot of accord
that manifested this being realm as a living cradle.
be certain all forms will return to such the same,
without your ego's approval or bank's statement.
--j.a. knolls
"Li, the inner principles of Chinese Medicine":
"The wuxing 五行 (5 movements - 5 phases - 5 transformations) occur in the bagua 八卦 (the eight marvels, eight miracles, eight directional attributes). The wuxing occur in the bagua; the bagua arise out of wuxing. As above, in the thirteen postures of taijiquan, moving the wuxing through the bagua reveals the three dimensions. These become the unification of space and time, and yin-yang becomes the unification of matter and energy. Back away just one more step and we find that the two, mass-energy and space-time, will reduce from yinyang, into taiji > That is: Stuff (mass-energy) and not-stuff (space-time) being 'not-two'. We know these are facts, quantitatively, phenomenologically, regarding any subject physicists might sit around and discuss, from the realm of the quarks to the behavior of stars and the size of the cosmos. Because they are also qualitatively indigenous, and because they universally represent all phenomena, they are employed in Chinese philosophy, painting, politics, agriculture, astronomy and medicine, as the terms, as the criteria by which we understand that with which we are dealing. Whether it's plotting stars, planting crops, or diagnosis of disease, they become our stock in trade, in tools, and we really do need to understand them at the level of the originators' understanding. They are not spiritual concepts; they are not mystical or metaphysical terms; they are not supposition or superstition. They represent a science and are not subject to personal belief or one's own truth. Gravity doesn't care, why, or how you believe in it. To know it, you must discover its truth. These qualitative emblems are hard science in all the applications. In this medicine, they are terms and definitions of real world phenomena, that qualify the actual behavior of any biologically-driven phenomena." by dr. sean c. marshall of jung tao school of classical chinese medicine
