I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, […]
Archives for March 2012
The Taoist Writer: Creating Soul
You ask me why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom. The water flows. –Li Po (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, […]
Why Write?
“WHY WRITE? THERE ARE, AFTER ALL, other ways to access internal wisdom. You can pray. You can meditate. You can work with a mental-health counselor or hypnotist. You can participate in religious rituals, visit a spiritual director, or see a shaman . . . . There are many routes into inner consciousness, so why take […]
Overflowing Compassion
The wide pond expands as a mirror, The heavenly light and cloud shadows play upon it. How does such clarity occur? It is because it contains the living stream from the Fountain. –Chu Hsi (Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry by Chuan-Yuan Chang, p.209) The Tao can be symbolized as […]