Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, I’m sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy [...]
Here’s to the crazy ones
In: Computer, Culture, Humor, Poetry
Awakening The Soul
Awakening The Soul neigong.com
In: Culture, Taiji · Tagged with: qigong
Groovy Dancing Girl
Groovy Dancing Girl #2 youtube.com
In: Culture, Humor · Tagged with: Culture, daft punk, music
Wanderlust
I am leaving this harbour, giving urban a farewell. Its habitants seem too keen on God I cannot stomach their rights and wrong. I have lost my origin, and I don’t want to find it again Rather sailing into nature’s laws and be held by ocean’s paws Wanderlust! relentlessly craving Wanderlust peel off the layers [...]
In: Culture, Poetry · Tagged with: music
Shake that Bird!
I received this video from Olaf with this remark: “for me, this is evidence for musicality and ego (wait for the end!) in certain other species…” This parrot sings for itself. I would like to know of similar cases of animal musical disorder! And here is the original longer version with our new born star:
The king is dead Long live the King
A hero of mine returned home on January the 17.th. of 2008. The legendary king of Chess and undefeated world champion Bobby Fisher died in a hospital in Reykjavik, Island. In 1958 he became the youngest Grandmaster of Chess. Through the times Bobby Fisher was exceptionally eccentric both in and out of the chess game. [...]
The inner depths
Inwardly alert, open, calm. Outwardly upright, extended, filled with spirit. This is the foundation of stillness. Add the hard and the soft, the powerful and the relaxed, Motion and stillness, contraction and extension: In the instant these converge, there is power. Grand Master Wang Xiang Zhai Reference: The Way of Power: Reaching Full Strength in [...]
In: Culture, Poetry, Taiji
Transformations of a Spiritual Dragon
A dragon, as spiritual luminosity, can be large or small, can rise or descend, can disappear or appear, can penetrate rocks and mountains, can leap in the clouds and travel with the rain. How can it do all this? Its done by the activity of the spirit. What I realize as I observe this is [...]
In: Culture, Poetry, Taiji
The Song of All the Chakras
FEET IN THE SAND What is sand? Mountains and time The ongoing meeting of Matter and weather Now, for the lapse of a moment I am the king of the mountain Standing ever so relatively still On what’s left of forgotten giants Enjoying the caressing warmth of the sun Before we are washed to the [...]
