Category: meditation
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Complaining or coalescing
Complaining requires believing that the complainer has been singled out for ill-usage. What hubris! What error in perception! For how is it possible for one to be singled out at all, let alone for ill-usage, if the world is good and beautiful? Complaining implies that the world runs contrary to one’s desires. In this respect, complaining…
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What follows from the assumption that the world is bad?
What follows from the assumption that the world is bad? * I. Misery (Passive, Individual) 1. The world is bad. 2. Here is an instance of its badness. 3. It applies to me, adversely affects me. 4. Therefore, I shall complain. II. Accusation (Active, Individual) 1. The world is bad. 2. Here is an instance…
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The world does not need saving
‘The universe is sacred. / You cannot improve it. / If you try to change it, you will ruin it. / If you try to hold onto it, you will lose it.’–Laozi, Daodejing 29 The transition from pre-modernity to modernity brought about a profound change in consciousness. In premodernity, the world was sacred. As such, it…
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Holding presence of mind amid the turning world
I meditate. Be quiet. You fill. Silent. Hold. Be still. You squiggle. Softly. Squirm. Softly. Still and softly. Be clear. You muddy, jumble, convolve. Be clear, clear, clear. Be empty. I sway and bend meltingly. Meditate. Be silent. [Pause] Be still. [Pause] Be clear. [Pause] Empty. [Pause] Whisper this again. Breathe: the world is thick, now, dense, now, deeper…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 