@stimmfeld.bsky.socialThis video gives an impression of my two days voice performance that I have done at the Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan in 2012.
vimeo.com/1234164356?f...
#vídeo #stimmfeld #taipei🇹🇼 #taïwan #voiceperformance #voiceperformer #daoism
@litradesign.bsky.socialGlad to report that my text 'Technoetic Ecologies of Another AI: Play, Process, and the Post-Biological Imagination' has been published in the latest issue of @leonardoisast.bsky.social.
@teachunteachable.bsky.socialButcher Ding
Intense activity without strain. Precision without rigid self-assertion.
Teaching the Unteachable Volume III: Dharma and Dao
Full reading: teachingunteachable.medium.com/butcher-ding...
@ecospirit427.bsky.socialThis piece satisfies my distaste of predeterministic Calvinistic protestantism and helps explain my preference for #daoism, and maybe even why I married a process theologian. Thanks Maria 👍👍
@mikekarpa.bsky.social#Firstdraftfall #weeknightwriters A comic horror called “An Atheist in Hell”. Very gay. AIDS related. Involves decapitations, demons and #Daoism.
@gerrit82.bsky.socialRon Hogan is an example of someone
making the Dàoist teachings their own.
Sections 1-3 are fine, but he doesn’t understand
the ontological context of section 4
(as Chen explains),
& presents it as ethical teaching,
which works well as such anyway. 😁
@gerrit82.bsky.social#DaoDeJing, Pt 2: De ch 51/81
This chapter concerns the providential powers
of Dao & de in the life cycle of every being,
especially de as the ever-supporting
& yet self-effacing presence in the world.
Ellen Chen p. 175
TY for reading in early #Daoism with us. 🪷😁
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@gerrit82.bsky.socialI think Ron Hogan's tr rocks.
It also calls out later #Daoist immortality fixations.
Founders of wisdom streams build sea kayaks
& leave their natural harbours.
Over the centuries followers lose the historical context
& build cruise ships instead of kayaks.
Context is crucial.
#Daoism #DaoDeJing 50
@gerrit82.bsky.socialDeath is therefore just the other side of life.
Since life & death accompany & succeed each other,
it is better not to worry about the matter.
The point is not to dwell on either life or death,
but to transcend both to the life of the one.
Chen, p.173
#Daoism DDJ 50
Below her lovely words in full:
@gerrit82.bsky.socialEllen Chen (1989, p.173)
What we have in this passage is the life of the round,
constituted by this dynamic process
of coming to be & ceasing to be.
Life & death are opposites that alternate with each other;
what has life pushes on toward death
so that new life can come to be.
#Daoism #DaoDeJing 50
@gerrit82.bsky.social#DaoDeJing 50/81
1st stanza concerns ordinary mortals who die;
2nd describes those who are deathless.
What is deathless is the unceasing life-producing activity.
The person at one with this unceasing creativity is immortal.
Chen p.173
TY for reading in early #Daoism. 🪷😁
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@itomon.bsky.social
@equalisource.bsky.socialIn the 20th century, #Daoism was banned in #China by the #Communist regime. The ban was reversed in 1978
@gerrit82.bsky.socialRon Hogan's tr.
Conservatives grade their love from near to far;
those outside their circle "deserve" nothing.
Today we want the fascists to receive
justice for their lawlessness.
Make it so. But true justice is also restorative.
Redemptive justice is hard; be guided by Dao.
@gerrit82.bsky.socialEllen Chen (1989, p.171, abbr.)
This deep religious insight,
that the ground of all beings accepts
both the good and the not good,
both the trustworthy and the untrustworthy,
was beautifully expressed by Jesus:
@gerrit82.bsky.social#DaoDeJing 49
On the learned ignorance of the sage.
The sage, by returning to the mind of the infant,
not distinguishing between the good & the not good,
re-educates his people to become like children again.
Chen, p.170, abbr.
TY for reading in early #Daoism. 🪷😁
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@gerrit82.bsky.socialA new book arrived. I'm a bit nervous.
All wisdom tradition founders build a sea kayak 🛶
& leave their natural harbour.
2.5 millennia later a cruise ship pulls up, too big to fit.
Locals: What dis? 🤔
Sailors: I kayak. 🛳️
Locals: GTFO 🤣
I've loved reading in early #Daoism. 🛶
Qigong book: I kayak! 🛳️ 😂
@gerrit82.bsky.socialnot to superimpose on them an order disturbing
their pre-established harmony.
Chen, p. 170, abbr.
Ron Hogan is an example of someone
making the Dàoist teachings their own.
Here again, he leaves the historical context
to point to direct applicability.
@gerrit82.bsky.socialthe amount of business in it.
Human learning with resulting modifications in the world does not bring either the natural world or humans themselves closer to the divine.
The proper human role is to respond to the
inner dynamism of things & be a part of the flow,
Chen, p. 169, abbr.
#Daoism DDJ 48
@gerrit82.bsky.socialChen (1989 p.168, abbr.)
1. To pursue learning is to increase
the stock of our knowledge of the many.
To pursue Dao is to give up
what has been accumulated so that
one can return pure to the pure.
2. These lines apply the psychology of the sage
in s1 to the style of his government.
#Daoism DDJ 48