Epiphany is the contemplation of the word “as”.
“As” is the word used to embody “is”.
And so, today we see “as is” in a whole, new, light.
“As” is the word used to embody “is”.
And so, today we see “as is” in a whole, new, light.
Saturday, January 06, 2018
to visualize or interpret as, epiphany
Epiphany as . . .
At times, words speak for themselves.
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
At times, words speak for themselves.
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Definition of epiphanyplural epiphanies1capitalized : January 6 observed as a church festival in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ 2: an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being
3a (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something
(2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking(3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
b : a revealing scene or moment
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epiphany
Origin and Etymology of epiphany
Middle English epiphanie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin epiphania, from Late Greek, plural, probably alteration of Greek epiphaneiaappearance, manifestation, from epiphainein to manifest, from epi- + phainein to show — more at fancy
Definition of fancyfancied; fancyingtransitive verb1: to have a fancy (see 2fancy 1) for : like
2: to form a conception of : imagine
- He's all right, I suppose, but I can't say that I fancy him.
- fancyour embarrassment
- Just fancy my surprise when I heard that he was getting married.
3a : to believe mistakenly or without evidence
b : to believe without being certain
- she fancied she had met him before
4: to visualize or interpret as
- real or fancied wrongs
- fancied myself a child again
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fancy
Friday, January 05, 2018
to dwell as what we are
We make of nihility one more thing to conquer, substitute for, or use as means for profit.
Instrumentality, substitutive retrieving, and mechanistic manipulations would be set aside in favor of abandoning ourselves through the empty fullness of coming to dwell as what we are — nothing other.
Imagine; nothing other!
From Keiji Nishitani's perspective a culture of self-centeredness has developed out of the inability of many people to move beyond a sense of nihilism in their lives.Nishitani would have us consider falling through relative nihility into absolute nihility where we’d come to dwell in nothing other than what is itself.
(—in, Keiji Nishitani and Karl Rahner: A Response to Nihility, by Heidi Ann Russell)
Instrumentality, substitutive retrieving, and mechanistic manipulations would be set aside in favor of abandoning ourselves through the empty fullness of coming to dwell as what we are — nothing other.
Imagine; nothing other!
Thursday, January 04, 2018
res ipsa loquitur — listening to what is taking place
It is a tense time for the republic of America.
They are falling and fraying.
Be careful!
res ipsa loquitur, (rayz ip-sah loh-quit-her) n. Latin for "the thing speaks for itself," a doctrine of law that one is presumed to be negligent if he/she/it had exclusive control of whatever caused the injury even though there is no specific evidence of an act of negligence, and without negligence the accident would not have happened. Examples: a) a load of bricks on the roof of a building being constructed by Highrise Construction Co. falls and injures Paul Pedestrian below, and Highrise is liable for Pedestrian's injury even though no one saw the load fall. b) While under anesthetic, Isabel Patient's nerve in her arm is damaged although it was not part of the surgical procedure, and she is unaware of which of a dozen medical people in the room caused the damage. Under res ipsa loquitur all those connected with the operation are liable for negligence. Lawyers often shorten the doctrine to "res ips," and find it a handy shorthand for a complex doctrine.
http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1823It is the time of bricks and nerves.
They are falling and fraying.
Be careful!
wording trump
Words matter.
What’s the matter with Trump?
No words about him come near truth.
No words by him appear to have any stability.
His words don’t matter.
They are less than noiseless phantasm.
They are anti-matter.
“Stable antimatter does not appear to exist in our universe.” (New Oxford American Dictionary)
I can’t hear what he is...
(just) saying...
I can’t hear him.
What’s the matter with Trump?
No words about him come near truth.
No words by him appear to have any stability.
His words don’t matter.
They are less than noiseless phantasm.
They are anti-matter.
“Stable antimatter does not appear to exist in our universe.” (New Oxford American Dictionary)
I can’t hear what he is...
(just) saying...
I can’t hear him.
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
jitai, じたい
Absolute nihility, according to Keiji Nishitani, is when everything is empty of anything other than itself.
I have nowhere to go with this.
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
and then it is tuesday
What is alone?
Is God the Alone?
No wonder so many fear God!
Who wants to be alone?
Who wants to be with the alone?
Hmmm...
I do.
Is God the Alone?
“Bells are meant to remind us that God alone is good,” (-Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude)That God, alone, is good.
No wonder so many fear God!
Who wants to be alone?
Who wants to be with the alone?
Hmmm...
I do.
Monday, January 01, 2018
start again
by Leonard Cohen
The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government --
signs for all to see.
I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.
Ring the bells that still can ring ...
You can add up the parts
but you won’t have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government --
signs for all to see.
I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.
Ring the bells that still can ring ...
You can add up the parts
but you won’t have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.
Then, like some Zen master, Christian mystic, or Tibetan Rinpoche insinuating reincarnation, rebirth, or resurrection, the artist poet Leonard Cohan says to the assembled: “Thank you so much for your kind attention! We’ll be back in a few minutes.”
And so
it is ...
what is
itself
what is
itself
goes on
Sunday, December 31, 2017
to, with, as
At hospital
as patient visitor
this afternoon
Each one
speaks the here
of their being there.
From book tonight at practice:
Creation is the voice of God!
a people, not knowing
what we are to be
listening
to, with, as
as patient visitor
this afternoon
Each one
speaks the here
of their being there.
From book tonight at practice:
Creation is the voice of God!
The crisis of the Word is a crisis of theology -- literally -- “God talk.” We have lost a Christian theology that adequately conveys the idea that creation is God speaking to us.”We grow despondent as
(--p.9, Care For Creation, [a franciscan spirituality of the earth], by Ilia Delio, Keith Douglass Warner, and Pamela Wood
a people, not knowing
what we are to be
listening
to, with, as
saturday night
Buttermilk.
That’s what she sipped.
Ice water too.
Did I want coffee, she asks?
No, thanks, I say
Just someone rounding eights,
Warming her hands in mine
In hospice room
That’s what she sipped.
Ice water too.
Did I want coffee, she asks?
No, thanks, I say
Just someone rounding eights,
Warming her hands in mine
In hospice room
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