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外面的世界

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New Personal Poem

You had your own reasons for getting

In your own way. You didn’t want to be

Clear to yourself. You knew a hell

Of a lot more than you were willing

                 to let yourself know. I felt

Natural love for you on the spot. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Right.

Beautiful. I don’t use the word lightly. I

Protested with whatever love (honesty) (& frontal nudity)

A yes basically reserved Irish Catholic American Providence Rhode

                 Island New Englander is able to manage. You

Are sophisticated, not uncomplicated, not

Naïve, and Not simple. An Entertainer, & I am, too.

Frank O’Hara respected love, so do you, & so do we.

He was himself & I was me. And when we came together

Each ourselves in Iowa, all the way

That was love, & it still is, love, today. Can you see me

In what I say? Because as well I see you know

In what you have to say, I did love Frank, as I do

You, “in the right way”.

That’s just talk, not Logos,

                 a getting down to cases:

I take it as simple particulars that

                 we wear our feelings on our faces. 

-Ted Berrigan Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1994)

The Sonnets (ted berrigan)

Spaziergang
Already my gaze is upon the hill, the sunny one,
at the end of the path which I've only just begun.
So we are grasped, by that which we could not grasp,
at such great distance, so fully manifest—
and it changes us, even when we do not reach it,
into something that, hardly sensing it, we already are;
a sign appears, echoing our own sign...
But what we sense is the falling winds.

"The Walk" by Rainer Maria Rilke (1924)

"Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."

'but your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.'

Opening Heart Breathing Meditation

Place the right hand over the heart center and left hand below your navel.  Relax the jaw and forehead.Feel the vibrations inside your body, and outside your body. Visualize your breathing going in and out through the heart. Inhale through the heart center, exhale through the back of the heart center, through the shoulder blades. Now focus on someone you love–a spouse, your children, friends, siblings, parents–as well as the many blessings in your life –your home, your job, food, clothing. Send them admiration, wisdom and compassion as your continue to breathe in and out through the heart. Explore, sense and accept the emotion of love arising within. Feel your love for these people and the blessings in your life. Now send the same quality of compassion, admiration and love to yourself. Be aware of any obstacle in your way and allow the heart to melt that obstacle until you feel the emotion of self-love. Hold the feeling of self-love deep within as you begin your asana practice.

Science, truth and beauty

What is the value in knowing "Why are we here?"
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. We need to use the effective theory of Darwinian natural selection of those societies most likely to survive. We assign them higher value.
You've said there is no reason to invoke God to light the blue touchpaper. Is our existence all down to luck?
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
So here we are. What should we do?
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
You had a health scare and spent time in hospital in 2009. What, if anything, do you fear about death?
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
What are the things you find most beautiful in science?
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology, and the fundamental equations of physics."