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THE SILENT NOW
by Craig Conley
Listen to this golden moment
just before the rain.
Hear the leaf that's gently gliding;
the cardinal's hushed refrain.
Stand upon this precipice,
the point where language falls away.
Words should be like glass, transparent,
windows seen right through.
Leaving just the poet's meaning,
were the glass removed.
Here on the horizon's edge—
the vagueness of destiny.
Conclusions and
beginnings coexist
in the silent now.
The corner of
this world upon your map
plainly shows you how.
Listen for the pause in music,
the stillness in the dance.
Calligraphic circled spaces,
emptiness enhanced.
Thread through the needle's eye,
and sew on ad infinitum.
Conclusions and
beginnings coexist
in the silent now.
The corner of
this world upon your map
plainly shows you how.
Conclusions and
beginnings coexist
in the silent now.
The corner of
this world upon your map
plainly shows you how.
Pause here long enough to notice,
life is all in jest.
If you refuse to verbalize it,
you can't be outguessed.
Weave intention with compassion,
a sutra is a stitch in time.
The predicate
and the antecedent are
silently understood.
I'd spell them out
in a wide vocabulary
if words only could.
Conclusions and
beginnings coexist
in the silent now.
The corner of
this world upon your map
plainly shows you how.
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Dessicant - Return
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Sun Duel - A Ladder
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0=2 - Enchanters
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One day he noticed a flier advertising for a director of training.
This was, of course, not his first stint in the desert.
By that time he no longer believed in a uniform, absolute time.
“But we cannot possibly ignore certain pathological aspects of the subject,” he wrote.
“I will analyze the actions of men as if it were a question of lines, of planes, and of solids.”
He applied for the job and eventually got it.
He then projected an infinite series of times,
and he postulated that he could get humans
to choose the path he designated.
“Each choice we make feels to us as if it must be unique,” he wrote.
He found a human community nearby
and began to notice that in a growing, dizzying net of divergent choices
a choice could be handled by his intellect as any other object is handled in a lab.
“They came to me to solve problems,” he wrote.
They wanted him to lay bare the causes in which the choice originates.
They didn’t really know what he was doing with the tangled webs of their lives.
In later years, he focused more on mass psychology than on individual intelligence,
on convergent rather than parallel times.
“A deep consideration came upon me”
“It was me,” he wrote. “It was just me all along.”
It was then that he developed a full-blown systematic approach to training,
involving a great network of choices which approached one another.
“I am no such thing as many. I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone. That’s what each of us believes.”
He built three pieces of equipment
each of which forked, broke off, and even became unaware of one another for centuries.
This game eventually became immensely popular
as it embraced all possibilities of time,
all conceivable choices
all possible outcomes.
His name has long been lost but the game persists in the desert
where the lines can almost be seen with the naked eyes.
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Research on presence
has brought to us
a blindingly strange
understanding.
In order to evoke an illusion
it is said
things might work better
in the company
of the white rabbit.
Thereafter we are set free
to explore different mediations
of virtual reality.
Then again, snow
despite its being a major concept
in this field,
is most often overlooked or confused
in various studies
in the field of cognition.
Such problems can't be avoided
without the help of
external perceptual inputs.
Soon the entire process
tends to disappear,
dismembered.
It will go on to form
a space-time referent
in which one will
be able to experience
a particular sensation.
Various theories
have been proposed
They all amount to
gooble gobble
gooble gobble.
Electric fire
purely evoked
by our mind
becomes
the dream.
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y3mk - Malkunofat
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