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You Will Meet Me Again
You will meet me again, somewhere seemingly unfamiliar, and further north than you’ve been ...It is there I waited for you, in perfect...
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Jan 172 min read


The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
We often think that creating art will help us find peace, its so taken for granted its laughable. We are sent messages that if you create...
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Sep 17, 20235 min read


One Hundred Useful Dilemas
Oblique Strategies began as an experimental card game that encourages tangential thinking in order to rouse the intuitive spirit and...
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Sep 17, 20232 min read


Wu Wei
A Zen student went to a temple and asked how long it would take him to gain enlightenment if he joined the temple. 10 years, said the Zen...
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Sep 17, 20235 min read


THE SOUL OF A TREE: A MASTER WOODWORKERS REFLECTIONS
George Nakashima (May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker and architect. His innovations in the design of furniture ...
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Aug 16, 20225 min read


The ecstatic solitude and final, magnificent days of OR-93
On a desolate, unknown and wild stretch of borderland between California and Oregon, in early spring, when the first whispers of running...
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Apr 19, 20226 min read


Psychopoeia Fragment
Psychotherapy is a signifier with myriad connotations. Here the space casts off many of these assumptions and transmutes itself into a...
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Aug 17, 20211 min read


Towards an Anarcho-Taoist Approach to Therapy
Thirty spokes meet in the hub Where the wheel isn’t is where it’s useful. Hollowed out, makes a bowl, Where the pot’s not, is where it’s...
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Aug 15, 20213 min read


You are the universe hiding from itself
Alan Watts curated one of the most succinct thought experiments at the intersection of desire and self. I encourage everyone to do this...
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Jun 25, 20212 min read


Fragments of Taoist Therapy
The essence of Taoism is harmony. A harmonious existence for a Taoist, does not exclude the messy, the wild or the irrational. It makes...
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Jun 25, 20215 min read


Born of Fire/The Fire Ladder
I sit down write and we are in the kindling of jejune days. Twelve months ago, we sat in quarantine as unprecedented fires terrorized our...
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Jun 18, 20215 min read


Somewhere There is a Spring
If you have been beaten by the sun Always remember Somewhere there is a spring ⠀ Somewhere there is a spring And in this life you must...
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May 28, 20211 min read


Consider The Burl
“Burl is the result of loss of orderly impulse in the tree, so that the grain is a tangle.” - Wallace Nutting “Likely the result of a...
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Feb 8, 20216 min read


The Transformation of Chuang Chou
Once Chaung Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He...
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Sep 15, 20203 min read


Dude, Level up your Jing
Contemporary systems of knowledge are geared towards medicalization and pathology, in terms of science and psychology, respectively. In addi
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Mar 18, 20204 min read


The Moon at My Window - On Solitude
The thief left it behind:
The moon
at my window.
-Ryōkan Regardless of who you are you will experience loneliness and being alone....
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Jan 1, 20203 min read


Axis Tempus Meditation - To Counter Linear Time
In a squirrely capitalist culture we are en-tranced by time. We believe it to be linear - the future, the past and, the present. We want...
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Oct 18, 20192 min read
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