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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 06/14/2015 - 06/21/2015
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                                        Saturday, June 20, 2015. Friday, June 19, 2015. There's something about the culture of exclusion and elimination. Take the south. Take racism and intransigent pretense of superiority on the part of white people. Take legislators with their code phrases, voter suppression, and gerrymandering doubletalking democratic values but enacting closet supremacy laws. The insanity has been institutionalized. It votes. It preens and struts to the tune of patriotic reels proclaiming us uber allies. My stomach just sa...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 05/24/2015 - 05/31/2015
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                                        Saturday, May 30, 2015. Ground. Planet. Universe. Mind. A world comes into being. Being is not a world. P257, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Ancients and moderns, Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot, Edited by Michael Chase, Stephen R.L. Clack, and Michael M. McGhee; in chapter 14, “Wittgenstein’s Temple, Or How Cool is Philosophy? Someone said that God is zero. Everything else is one. Then there is prayer. When one sees nothing. Allowing what is true itself to feel its way into one-an-other. First, as a kind ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 07/05/2015 - 07/12/2015
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                                        Saturday, July 11, 2015. Our spirituality is a continuing practicing through silence of contemplation, conversation, and correspondence. A reminder on this Benedictine feastday. Our way through this imagined place called existence, world, life. The socks waving goodbye. When a poet dies he does not take his words with him. What he does take is everything yet to be brought into words into a world of his creation. Sort of like what some people imagine occurs happens when God dies. Or died. Or will. Poem by...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 04/26/2015 - 05/03/2015
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                                        Saturday, May 02, 2015. Saturday Morning Practice; two short phrases; eight last words. Friday, May 01, 2015. The scar from throat to ear told a story hard to hear. But he lived to walk that story into the room. It's not an easy place to live. The realm of mere fact. Thursday, April 30, 2015. War is a currency that buys lies and liars. The defeated United States final run away from Vietnam. The lies of war. Where we are, is who we are. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Alongside the saying of anything. The grea...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 05/31/2015 - 06/07/2015
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                                        Saturday, June 06, 2015. Medieval days are over. When boys and girls were smothered by monasteries and convents in feudal motif and absolute obedience. Today, a different understanding of God. And - we can only hope - not half as neurotic, psychotic, or officiously unbearable. Friday, June 05, 2015. As it was in the beginning. Thursday, June 04, 2015. It's where it all comes from. If you don't mind. Wednesday, June 03, 2015. After reading poem by Denise Levertov on variation of a theme by Rilke. One by o...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 07/19/2015 - 07/26/2015
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                                        Saturday, July 25, 2015. Hammering nails from old wood, pulling from demolition, an afternoon’s decomposition. Just this. Nothing else. I no longer find opinions to be interesting. Friday, July 24, 2015. The achieving of integration. Armin hit the wooden fish ( moktak. Seven of us sang “happy birthday” to the woman in Maryland whose birthday was yesterday. It was a sweet exercise. Being transported across the miles from maximum security prison. Http:/ www.iep.utm.edu/hegelsoc/#H4. You are not alone. 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 04/19/2015 - 04/26/2015
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                                        Saturday, April 25, 2015. Just when you were considering what to read next. Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: Pauline Meontology and Lutheran Irony. Https:/ www.academia.edu/7234071/Heidegger s Contributions to Philosophy Pauline Meontology and Lutheran Irony. For Kierkegaard, irony is characterized by a distance and difference between essence and appearance. Duane Armitage, Gonzaga University). One birds song through chill morning air. The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye , by Dogen Eihei). Postmo...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 06/21/2015 - 06/28/2015
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                                        Saturday, June 27, 2015. Koan - [accompanying dharma encounter between Chris and Ikkyu]. After receiving photo and teisho from Chris, “Buddha as a shithead. .he would smile.”). Buddha: [splat] Hey, what's that? Blade of Grass: huh? Buddha: I said.[reconsidering].oh, never mind! Hence began important teaching by Buddha arising from grass. And then, there is Ikkyu:. Ten years ago I couldn't stop thinking, feeling,. Just anger, just rage, until this moment. Zen Master Ikkyu, “. Incense Thrown on the Buddha. 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 08/02/2015 - 08/09/2015
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                                        Saturday, August 08, 2015. Saturday evening with dogs and cats. And from “Louie, Louie” email. Http:/ fatherlouie.blogspot.com. Friday, August 07, 2015. What the 99 year old woman (who were fond of) choose to read today at poetry. I give a piece quite near away,. Then another, one and two to three. And say good-bye with some dismay. We might have been twins, I born in May. And she of the blistered January. Colored like the vibrant cray-. On, clinging on to toys of the day,. As mine become that of history. 
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Today at Meetingbrook: 07/26/2015 - 08/02/2015
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                                        Saturday, August 01, 2015. Thesis; poetry sive utterance. Why poetry has to do with liberation, creative expression of true nature, and essential communication. Since my house burned down,. I now own a better view. Of the rising moon. Masahide, 1657–1723). Poetry is what has become of religion and spirituality once they abandoned freedom, the individual undivided, the divine intercommunication. Friday, July 31, 2015. Blue moon and Ignacio. It's only a moon. Rising over Hosmer Pond. Where white dog stands.