mischievousness is nothing but individuality and concomitant action in someone else  

when others don't share worlds with you

 difference between being somebody and doing something (Boyd)

a fast bowler bowls fast bowls, but a person playing the game will attempt to take wickets one way or the other

(this is a sucky example. a fast bowler attempts to take wickets. presuming it is easier to bowl medium or slow , the hypothesis is that a person bowling fast is attempting to do a difficult thing, when easier options exist)

how about - managers exist to retain, and grow budgets, and only incidentally grow their divisions/projects/teams 

We've put it in words today
we'll put it in equations tomorrow
and one day

 it will be a household word

made in China

then journeying on a container ship
then riding on a truck 
then arranged on a Walmart shelf

by an hourly wager

you'll park your large SUV

and drive it home

and use it until its time

when it proceeds by truck again

to be buried under the earth
in this great land of ours

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree Walden,
And a small cabin build there, with fancies and borrow'd axe make;

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This is the introducing poem in Emerson's Nature essay. Strangely, it is only seen in some particular edition(s)


The rounded world is fair to see,
Nine times folded in mystery:
Though baffled seers cannot
impart
The secret of its laboring heart,
Throb thine with Nature's
throbbing breast,
And all is clear from east to west.
Spirit that lurks each form within
Beckons to spirit of its kin;
Self-kindled every atom glows,
And hints the future which it owes.

There are many others which start with a different poem, I cannot understand what happen'd.

Now compare and contrast with the opening lines of the Tao Te Ching :

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth.
The named is the mother of the ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.

It is quite possible that Emerson was aware of, or had read , the Tao Te Ching at some point, before producing his text, and that the lines/idea lay quietly in the subconscious, showing up in his writing as though original.

Would Huck Finn be considered a deadbeat by today's standards ? I hope not ..

Would Thoreau be the Huck Finn of his time ?

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Attributions 

Image : https://www.nps.gov/places/walden-pond-in-the-walden-pond-state-reservation.htm
Poetry : https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree

Title: Essays
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Editor: Edna H. L. Turpin
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/16643-h/16643-h.htm#FNanchor_469_469
and also
https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-second-series/nature/

The Complete Tao Te Ching
Translated by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English

Sometimes I feel religious practice, especially what Ram Dass describes in Be Here Now,  aims to provide a trippy life without actually purchasing or ingesting anything specifically for it, and shares similarities with the shaman intern fasting & sitting in tents waiting for lights and visions to come ...

When I frame sadhakas as folks desperately working hard to get permanent trippy powers, like the ability to take trips at will, it makes a phenomenal amount of sense . It makes the ritual that religious folks go through, as purposeful now.

There's something for idea that religious practice is something to do with re-training and re-wiring the neural network in your brain so that purpose continues to exist. The 'I' and the voice in your (mind's) ears is just  trace/debug messages from the brain's log file, which  got in front of the brain's headlights.

Fasting is a simple and powerful technique to re-draw the world around you, simply as it exactly was, but two lower degrees of importance . 

Aurobinodo explores the idea that the Vedas pertain to the processes inside the mind , in his this book - Secret of the Veda. 

Book available online at
https://www.auro-ebooks.com/the-secret-of-the-veda/

Pirsig, in one chapter of the famous Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, derives the Tao Te Ching as pertaining to when the subject is aware of the object - again, an internal thing , something happening inside one's head.

What if Brahma was nothing more than the pineal gland, so worshipped by Gaia-Pyramids-Area-51 kinda folks  .... ? The word 'brahm' I've seen used in different contexts - in one, it is creation, as in 'what Brahma wrought', but in other, it is a delusion  - as in tamil we say 'adu ellam bramai'. In the Brahma jaala sutra, AJ Brahmali explains that the Brahma Jala is a net to catch views. 
Equating all three - views, delusions, creation - I feel I can confidently hypothesise, that we are referring to that which sits inside our heads and creates our abstractions. Like, a finger when poked, twitches. There is no 'mind' involved, just signal travelling from sensor (skin,muscle) to spine, and a canned voltage response triggering a twitch. However, the human is much more complicated. There is a human sitting inside ones' head - the image of the self, which the brain can include in simulations of multiple disasters. This is where the second arrow hits. see figure.(tbd)

Alan Watts famously remarked once that "Buddhism is Hinduism stripped for export". 

While the faithful still debate to this day citing this piece of literature and that, 

I put forth the simple formula.  ** Bhakthi minus vishnu equals metta **

and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it. 

The practices and rituals of both deal excessively with handling 'karma' on a day to day basis, and eventually,  beyond the current life (call it mind or soul).

 nothing more poisonous

than an inner circle member

who is apathetic or un-aligned

the universe is a giant Rorschach gallery

moment by moment 

a new story is made, or an old one reinforced

but it's all stories 

all the way down

and a giant ball of buzzing nothing much at the bottom

Dont be stupid

Dont be fat

Dont be daft

Dont be Taft

 A million people are holding the first step of a thousand mile journey under their foot, but are waiting for permission

 Your education is the first nail in your coffin

Your marriage is the second

The most important thing in art is The Frame. 

For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. 

You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise,  what is that shit on the wall?” 

― Frank Zappa

 if i die, will i be reborn at a chronological juncture after today ? or can I be born as, say, a viking in pre historic time, raiding and plundering Britain for fun and profit  ?

can two souls co-exist in different bodies in different rebirths in the same time period ?

will there be 'leakage' between the two ?

will the mind keep rebirthing itself until it experiences all the realities it fractures are creating ? will that ever end ?

will the last few centuries be extremely jaded piles of kitsch ?