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Tag: Emptiness

Book Bits

The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.

Tagged Buddhism, change, contemplation, dark, Darkness, Dreams, Emptiness, liminal space, nature, night, transformationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Laura Johnson – To the Daughter I Never Had

July 24, 2022July 23, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Iowa poet Laura Johnson's "To the Daughter I Never Had" is a heart-rending work of what could have been, of loss, absence, and missed opportunities.

Tagged absence, daughter, Death, Emptiness, loss, love, parenthood, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Bits

The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing

January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.

Tagged Buddhism, Emptiness, existence, Experience, interbeing, nothingness, separate self, sunyata, Zen1 Comment
Dainin Katagiri
Book Bits

You Have To Say Something: Dainin Katagiri on What To Say When There Is Nothing To Say

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

According to Katagiri, it can be difficult to find the words or modality to enter back into the world from a place of silence, but it is something we ultimately have to do.

Tagged 100-foot pole, buddha nature, Emptiness, Silence, words, ZenLeave a comment
Places I'd Like to Live: Ice Blue Mountains
Micro Gallery

Dave Sims – Watercolors

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Dave Sims' watercolor paintings are a submission to the chance of creation and a surrender to emptiness.

Tagged art, chance, Emptiness, painting, surrender, watercolors, ZenLeave a comment
Paul Tillich
Book Bits

On the Anxiety of Non-Being

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Vanessa Able

Theologian Paul Tillich on the interplay of anxiety and fear and how they feed in to one another at the very foundation of the human mind.

Tagged Anxiety, Death, Emptiness, existence, Fear, God, non-being, nothingness, theology, unknown2 Comments
Jundo Cohen
Book Bits

How to Dance? Lessons from a Zen Master

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jundo Cohen paints a picture of the universe as an integrated and indivisible dance, in which certain elements temporarily swirl out then return to the whole.

Tagged dance, Dogen, Emptiness, music, Reality, rhythm, Unity, Zen1 Comment
Lewis Hyde
Book Bits

To Possess Is To Give

December 3, 2020December 4, 2020 Vanessa Able

Lewis Hyde's book The Gift is a treatise on the power of the creative spirit and the dynamics of giving to transform the world.

Tagged begging, creativity, economy, Emptiness, flow, Gift, giving, mendicantLeave a comment
Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Shunryu Suzuki’s Waterfall – On Separation and Death

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Vanessa Able

When a human life comes into being, a unique form comes together, like a drop of water when it is separated from the wholeness of the river as it hits a rock or falls down a waterfall.

Tagged big mind, Emptiness, essence, feeling, life-and-death, Mind, Nirvana, oneness, realization, separation, truth, Waterfall, wholeness4 Comments
Aldous Huxley
Book Bits

Aldous Huxley and Beauty

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Vanessa Able

Huxley on the beatific vision of divine beauty that resides in Pure Interval and harmonious relationship, and experiencing the divine through architecture, music, sacred geometries and human relationships.

Tagged beauty, Emptiness, God, harmony, intervals, nothingness, order, relationship, space, ugliness, vision1 Comment

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