"we naturally pursue
those things that have the appearance of good, and avoid the contrary

Now where this
strong desire is consistent and founded on prudence, it is by the stoics
called Bulesis and the name which we give it is volition, and this they allow to none but their wise men, and define it thus;

volition is a reasonable
desire; but whatever is incited too violently in opposition to reason,

that is a lust or an unbridled desire which is discoverable in all fools”

Cicero

good night everyone 🥱🥱🥱

here's a loon wearing nature's liquid jewelry.

ok everyone. how about some appreciation for the stamina of an opossum momma, eh🙏🏻

@ATXJane @NiveusLepus

"rDzogs chen, teaches a primordial substratum (gdod ma'i gzhi) which

while beyond all conceptuality is commonly referred to using terms which have a primary mentalistic significance.

e.g., this substratum is spoken of as 'mind-as-such' or 'the very nature of mind'.

Another important term is rang gi rig pa, 'awareness of itself or 'reflexive awareness', sometimes referred to as 'a mere gnosis which is reflexive awareness'".

when standing at the utmost edge of the matrix, staring into dark infinity, no definite path forward,

it helps to remember the guides, the ones who motivate love, the energy that lights the untrodden way ahead.

good morning everyone ✌🏽🙏🏻🖖

here's #Teddy munching on apple.

"The ancient Chinese divided their cosmos into a twofold rhythm, a reciprocal enantiodromia of yin and yang.

the yin–yang motion is a symphony of alternating rhythms, where spatial elements (to and fro) and temporal elements (before and after) are space-time and not separate from one another.

They create this two-oneness. The rhythm is the third.

In the I Ching, “the powers confront one another but they do not conflict.” they counterbalance one another in a symmetrical double movement".

and now for something different, if not completely, for those familiar with accupressure.

"sandals" for foot massage to alleviate foot neuropathy and generally stimulate blood flow in feet, ankles, calves, and beyond.

got some, after some initial discomfort until feet relaxed, the massage while standing and moving rhythmically, dancing as it were, feels wonderful.

half an hour of this while doing qigong and my feet are warm and feel good 👌🏽

Amazon, but i'm sure they must be elsewhere too.

"The concept of two-one-ness is the root of mathematical thought and ultimately responsible for the discovery of the binary basis of nature.

The fact that the human mind developed the ability to discriminate clearly shows that the number 2 has a different meaning than the number 1.

However, the ability to consciously understand the implications of this occurred much later than its silent awareness as manifested in myth."

good morning everyone 🙏🏻✌🏽👍🏼

"it is important to remember that a myth is a metaphor for something unknown at the conscious level."

"nature is a process with one main overlying meta-pattern. All stable patterns in nature contain a balance of forces, a kind of reconciliation of opposites.

One of the more beautiful ways to understand this concept of dinergy is to look at the pattern formations on the surface of seashells."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333438601_Dinergy_The_Primordial_Meta-Pattern_in_Nature

"A faith which never doubts is not worth having.

it's in the dialectic of faith and doubt that the reality of faith emerges.

the enemy of faith is not doubt,

but rather the sheer insensitivity of mind that doesn't see what all the fuss is about.

we have to go from the intellectualized problem down to the deeper existential problem"

where the virtue is hope, not faith. the opposite of hope is not doubt, but despair.

moving through the dark valley of despair to the land of hope and promise.

"the world is not a sum of things which might always be called into question"

but

"the inexhaustible reservoir from which things are drawn…"

strawberry fields,
nothing is real,
strawberry fields,
forever 🎶🎶

"causality is conspicuously absent from Husserl's reductions,

it lies at the core of Yogācāra phenomenology.

Yogācāra put forth the notion of psychosophic closure (vijñapti-mātra) as a way of making us aware that our karmic dilemma only occurs in that sphere;

that positing a sense of externality to things is only the most basic of the self-blinding moves

that keeps us enmeshed in the appropriational web we conceive of as a world."

"If there is one striking difference between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on the one hand and Yogācāra Buddhism on the other, it would concern the function and type or ‘reductions’ employed by each.

Though one may find glimpses of Husserl's eidetic reduction, phenomenological reduction, transcendental reduction, etc., in Yogācāra,

one will find a reduction in Yogācāra not readily evident as such in the Western phenomenologists.

I shall call this the ‘karmic reduction.’

"To ask oneself whether the world is real is to fail to understand what one is asking,

since the world is not a sum of things which might always be called into question,

but the inexhaustible reservoir from which things are drawn….

There could not possibly be error where there is not yet truth, but reality, and not yet necessity, but facticity."

Merleau Ponty.
more🔽

and, finally, the little red devil.

here's another one. he got his fill😂

squirrel news.

this morning a black squirrel digging like mad at the back of the garden, through the snow, a hole his head was inside. it was like "i know i put it around here, i know it".

about 15 or so minutes later, i just had to watch, yes, there it is, a lovely black walnut, which he dashed away with to find a quiet spot for a snack.

then, one of the red squirrels figured out how to use the squirrel buster peanut feeder, being small and light was his advantage.
i got some videos of that.

how to grow a tree house to live inside ❤️❤️❤️

https://youtu.be/4WRRCq0Vf6M

voynich adds feminine magic to plant life/origin/development.

my reading of the gist.