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The Way of Wonder: Before the Big Bang was...
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The Way of Wonder. Recognizing and celebrating our Condition of Irreducible Mystery. Monday, August 10, 2015. Before the Big Bang was. Just as the eyes cannot see themselves except by reflection, Consciousness (Original Mind) cannot be aware of itself, except through the reflection of manifestation. All worlds and beings display Original Mind, like a constellation of dewdrops reflecting the bright moon. But only a fool mistakes the dewdrops for the moon itself! Original Mind is not an object. I feel deep...
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The Way of Wonder: Radiant Secret
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The Way of Wonder. Recognizing and celebrating our Condition of Irreducible Mystery. Monday, August 10, 2015. A great and wonderful truth shines at the heart of every living being. It has been called by many names: Original Mind, Naked Mind, Unborn Mind, Buddha-Nature and the Open Secret. Indeed, many more names refer to it, and yet this radiant secret is beyond all labels and conventional knowledge. One—from whom every moment and everything emerges as spontaneous flow. The body-mind and world arise.
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SELLING STORYTELLING by Mark Canter: August 2014
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SELLING STORYTELLING by Mark Canter. Notes on the craft of writing selling fiction. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Unless the plot of your romance absolutely demands a real-life locale, you’ll do yourself a favor by inventing your setting—but not out of whole cloth. For authenticity, it’s best to thoroughly research factual models for the fictional elements that you create. For example, most of the action in my first novel, Ember from the Sun. The beauty of this research-and-switch method of creating fiction...
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SELLING STORYTELLING by Mark Canter: Reinventing Reality
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SELLING STORYTELLING by Mark Canter. Notes on the craft of writing selling fiction. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Unless the plot of your romance absolutely demands a real-life locale, you’ll do yourself a favor by inventing your setting—but not out of whole cloth. For authenticity, it’s best to thoroughly research factual models for the fictional elements that you create. For example, most of the action in my first novel, Ember from the Sun. The beauty of this research-and-switch method of creating fiction...
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SELLING STORYTELLING by Mark Canter: September 2012
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SELLING STORYTELLING by Mark Canter. Notes on the craft of writing selling fiction. Sunday, September 30, 2012. My historical novel, The Bastard. Thursday, September 27, 2012. Tell us the rest of the story! What have you kept from us—and why have you not revealed it? 8221; They would not rave that it is “the greatest story ever told;” on the contrary, they would demand a refund. My new historical epic, The Bastard,. Will be available on Amazon and all e-book outlets on Monday, October 15. 8220;Canter wea...
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SELLING STORYTELLING by Mark Canter: Making Full Use of Setting
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SELLING STORYTELLING by Mark Canter. Notes on the craft of writing selling fiction. Friday, June 13, 2014. Making Full Use of Setting. If a detective snooped through your residence while you were away, chances are he or she could construct a fairly detailed and reliable profile of your personality, based on your environment (your setting. It keeps the writer invisible. The information arrives through the character’s perceptions, not from a disembodied narrator. Into the wall… the arrow thwacked. The more...
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The Way of Wonder: August 2015
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The Way of Wonder. Recognizing and celebrating our Condition of Irreducible Mystery. Saturday, August 15, 2015. Links to this post. Links to this post. Links to this post. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Links to this post. Links to this post. Links to this post. Links to this post. Links to this post. 8220;Spirit versus Flesh” Is an Ancient Falsehood. Fundamentally, there is no dilemma. No split, no gap, no division. The war between Spirit and flesh must be utterly abandoned. The body and its changes (and all.
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The Way of Wonder: Universal Grammar of Religions
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The Way of Wonder. Recognizing and celebrating our Condition of Irreducible Mystery. Monday, August 10, 2015. Universal Grammar of Religions. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life is a cosmic drama in which we all play multiple roles: daughter, sister, lover, friend, mother, grandmother, learner, teacher, etc. In my role as. And it’s merely a. Therefore (to paraphrase Alan Watts):. I'm not a guru, I'm an entertainer. 8220;Spirit versus Flesh” Is an Ancient Falsehood. It Takes One to Know One! Like the...
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The Way of Wonder: Astonishment
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The Way of Wonder. Recognizing and celebrating our Condition of Irreducible Mystery. Monday, August 10, 2015. All that we have anciently called “God” and presumed to know as “Divine” invariably falls within. Experience of things and energies, physical and subtle, that appear and disappear. Therefore, what we have since prehistory been labeling “God” is not absolutely different or distinct from the whole dimension of “being human.”. What “God”. God can only be. 8212;or understood, presumed and lived.
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The Way of Wonder: Notes from the Ground
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The Way of Wonder. Recognizing and celebrating our Condition of Irreducible Mystery. Monday, August 10, 2015. Notes from the Ground. Too much of Eastern mysticism seems overly eager for death, The Great Return to Original Perfection, liberation from the limits of ego and embodied experience. Death of self… What about BIRTH? What about being wholly and miraculously HERE? Themselves, right up through the highest levels of the various schools from India and the Far East that have emigrated to the West.
