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Such is life
A commentary on the yin and yang of life
“Don’t look down on death, but welcome it. It too is one of the things required by nature. Like youth and old age. Like growth and maturity. Like a new set of teeth, a beard, the first grey hair. Like sex and pregnancy and childbirth. Like all the other physical changes at each stage of life,our dissolution is no different.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Such is lifesaid Ned Kellylast words…
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Let there be light
The whole is only visible through both light and dark, through yin-yang
“The darkness declares the glory of light” – T.S.. Eliot Let there be lightsaid the Christian godthen creationwas visibleThe wholerevealedwhen bothlight and darkexist The earth spinsbeneath our feeteastward boundas it turnsfrom spaceto the sundarknessto the lightof day Certaintyis rareBut always foundthroughthe yinof nightfollowingthe yangof day References Original artwork by Molly Knight
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Original Yin Yang
The original meaning of yin and yang was literally the way hills have light and dark sides according to the position of the sun.
“Countless words Count less Than the silent balance Between yin and yang” – Tao Te Ching c. 600BC A hill, any hillAnchored solidlyUpon this spinning earthIts side facing eastyang sidefull of lightits other sideyin sidefull of dark The hill remainsThe hillits shadesits light and darkdefines itThe daily rotationearth toward sunreverses the hillsyin and yang Each side containsthe potentialof its…
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Message to my followers 15Oct22
My post "Inside Yin Yang" is now available.
Firstly, thank you for following my blog. Your interest is very much appreciated. Secondly, you will have received a notification of a post recently that you couldn’t access. I was trying out posting to my blog from a word processing program and it automatically published the post rather than saving it as a draft. I immediately moved the post from published to drafts after I noticed it but the…
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Inside Yin Yang
The Yellow Emperor said, “Yin Yang is the dao (the way) of Heaven and Earth, the fundamental principle of everything, the progenitor of myriad variation, the root of life and death, and the palace of spirit brightness.” – Huangdi Nei Jing Su Wen (Chapter 5) circa 200bce I had the good fortune to act in a Shakespeare drama only once in my amateur theatre days and the process of learning the role…
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Compassion?
Has my progression from “Ho Ho” to “Ho Om” seen me develop a more compassionate approach to life?
Compassionate is not a word I would usually associate with myself but it came to mind the other day when I reassessed an opinion I voiced by agreeing with a vehement statement I heard from a friend. I wrote a post 1 earlier about how we need to reassess our opinions and beliefs from time to time. They are just shortcuts after all that we use to save time thinking through all the options on any…
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Seasons
My latest post on the nature of seasons
Winters signal shows As a golden daffodil Dispels the gloom- My first haiku Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. Henry David Thoreau As I started to write this the mornings were getting colder which is as it should be given that it was mid-May here in Australia. Autumn was fading into winter. A…
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Cleansing rain
Wooden fence still wet Overnight rain a blessing Sunny day cleansed air
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Ho Om
On the middle path between the scared seriousness of childhood (Ho Hum) and the extreme imitation of my father in adulthood (Ho Ho), lies a more enlightened approach as I move into the sunset of my life. The transition really began with Molly. The year was 2004 and I was settling in to a new relationship with my soon to be wife, Molly. Molly had been heavily involved with a personal development…
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The Way of Zen by Alan Watts - a review
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts – a review
The Way of Zen has been one of the most influential books I have read. The style of Alan Watts is one I have admired for some time and the clarity of his thinking which he imparts is illuminating. I simply recommend this book for anyone who is looking for a new perspective on life as we know it. To aid in your assessment I am including a few of my favourite quotes from the book. Personally I…
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Acting Days
Reminiscences of twenty plus years in amateur theatre.
I was prompted to drag out my old theatre scrapbooks when I wrote “A Challenge Faced” as part of the WordPress Bloganuary prompts. In reading through all these old treasured memories I realised that I had never written about my acting days on this blog. I say “Acting Days” because “Acting Career” sounds a little pretentious to describe my involvement in amateur theatre. But I am proud of my…
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Listening
The trials and tribulations of a wired society.
The house is quiet and peaceful. I have had a nice sleep in but sadly without my wife beside me. Molly has slept over at our daughters place helping look after the grandchildren while our daughter recovered from a severe migraine. I arise and after toiletries and refreshing the cats feed bowls it is time to sit down for my daily meditation session. I am up to day seven in Annemaree Rowley’s…
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Sorry Michael
How the Ukraine war became personal to me
My wife had asked me to look at a video she had shared with the admonition that I needed to watch it until the end so that I would learn something. What I learned instead was that it was to my mind a piece of Russian “propaganda” as we used to call it. Now it goes under the labels “disinformation” or “misinformation” which are somehow less aggressive or blatant. The situation itself is incredibly…
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Pat-A-Cat
How a simple pat of a cat became a mandatory ritual multiple times a day.
Over the years I have come to appreciate that our pets love routines in their lives much as many of us humans do. There is a sense of security in routines I suspect. Our eleven year old cat, Miss Millie, has one particular routine that I thought might be interesting to share. It started innocently enough sometime back in 2012. At the house we were living in then we had the rubbish and recycling…
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Stars
Stars, in response to prompt from the WordPress challenge #bloganuary
Awestruck! In a word, awestruck is how I feel when I look at the stars. As we learn more and more of the enormity of this existence that we form such a tiny, infinitesimal part of, the more I am incredulous of the distances and how difficult it is to comprehend, to take it all in. How small do all our debates, discussions, politics, likes and dislikes appear and fall into irrelevance in the…
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Me As A Tree
Me as a tree, in response to a prompt in the WordPress challenge #Bloganuary
I started out as a small humble seed, carrying within me all that I needed to know. Buried in the earth my first signs of life were sprouts going down into the earth to became my roots. Roots that spread through the earth providing support and nourishment for my growth while holding the soil from being eroded away. Roots that are wider by far than the furtherest reach of my branches, resisting…
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Changing
Changing the world? A response to a prompt in the WordPress challenge #Bloganuary.
Let me start with a few definitions of what change is. Change is constant, nothing is permanent. This fact is referred to as impermanence and it is a foundation block of Buddhism. All change is a result of cause and effect. So even the smallest action has a reaction somewhere, somehow. The effect might not be immediately visible or apparent but you can trust that it will happen and not…
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