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bodhisattva?

Posted on Jan 27th, 2009 by Erin : blue Erin

OKC user X: I think any true Bodhisattva would never claim to be one. ________________________________________________________________ Finluiniel think whatever you will. ________________________________________________________________ OKC user X: do you claim to be one? ________________________________________________________________ Finluiniel i don’t think... More »

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listening

Posted on Jan 1st, 2009 by Erin : blue Erin

what is essential and inessential to the thingness of the thing?  to know the answer…i listen to and engage with the thing…without any desire to make it into what it is not, to possess it... More »

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honest words

Posted on Jan 1st, 2009 by Erin : blue Erin

sometimes, if we’re really listening, and we want to communicate what we hear honestly, we have to abandon the usual words… these words have a gravitational pull–as simone weil defines gravity–drawing us to them when... More »

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for the sake of illuminating the movements of my thoughts

Posted on Jan 1st, 2009 by Erin : blue Erin

some thoughts as they were born: i must write a book about justice and practices of reading, demonstrating that justice is possible.  we often fail to recognize injustices done to us, because we tend to... More »

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my heart

Posted on Jan 1st, 2009 by Erin : blue Erin

as donna haraway reminds us, we are all cyborgs now. when i put words on this screen i do not think about making them appear. my fingers find their ways not even lagging behind the... More »

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Relationships and the Possible

Posted on Jan 1st, 2009 by Erin : blue Erin

simone weil discusses the wonder of sentience in the Creation as the miracle of infinite possibility. we, as sentient beings, are the only means that exist of experiencing the possible. but not only do we... More »

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