not an oxymoron
Posted in Of Core Knowing, On Practices, The Path on Nov 20th, 2009
During the recent NYC Intensive, I wrote: I entered the Black Velvet Inner-ness where breaths float as jewels. Breath is the activator and lens of subtlety. In the realm of subtlety we can dissolve into that which is most infinite and most intimate. For Sufis, the court of love is found inside the subtlety inside [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing on Oct 26th, 2009
I googled a friend’s avatar while the BBC World News, playing as a the soundtrack in the background, related yet another African genocidal mutilation story, and I had an odd rush of living in a performance art piece — two disembodied sources, one audio and one computer screen, focused on images and bodies. Meanwhile I [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing on Sep 12th, 2009
It can be hard to realize, until you’ve done it, that you’ve just spent a time of being-ness. A time that is empty of activity but full of perception and of “the ferocity of witnessing”, as a wonderful poet just said ( I need to find his name — from NJ, a factory worker and [...]