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on the New Mexico landscape - the people - the heart
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Bosque at the Rio Grande, Corrales NM, Fall 2012
“We are the land dancing.”
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"In physics there is the problem of describing processes in the
quantum world because they are not static objects with unchanging
properties like rocks. [Another physicist] offers a simple
solution: tell a story. With it's connections and relationships
between events; these are the important aspects. What caused an
event and why? This involves the flow of information between
events. A given event is typically the result of several
influences, not just one. A process IS like a story. The world
is a history of processes."
~ Phillip Duran, Rio Rancho NM, writer, teacher and physicist
“Whatever things are cause-produced, the Tathagata has told their
cause; and what their cessation is, thus the great ascetic
teaches.”
“According to this law, nothing has independent, permanent, or
absolute existence. Everything is part of a limitless web of
interconnections and undergoes a continual process of
transformation. Every appearance arises from complex causes and
conditions, and in turn combines with others to produce countless
effects. By interrupting the causal chain at certain key points,
the course of existence can be altered and effects prevented by
eliminating their causes.”
~ from Buddhadharma, a quarterly Buddhist magazine here.
“We expect that meaning is going to change through our learning as
we go along and therefore purpose changes naturally.
The word "dialogue" has many meanings and we are giving it a
particular meaning. In this Dialogue we are not trying to make our
points prevail or, if we are, we need to look at that. Our
challenge is to see when each of us is trying to prevail, because
if anybody prevails it means the dialogue has failed. Or, if we
simply agree, the dialogue may also have failed because this means
that we haven't gone deeply enough into the process or into the
consciousness behind it. What begins to transform culture into
something quite different is that ultimately the frustration or
anger or rage or hatred that arises can lead to a crisis in which
these feelings are transformed giving rise to impersonal
fellowship - to thinking together and participating as if we were
one body - by establishing a common consciousness. The group then
becomes a kind of instrument of consciousness which can function
differently.”
physicist David Bohm on Dialogue, here.
“Everything is blooming most recklessly;
if it were voices instead of colors, there
would be an unbelievable shrieking into
the heart of the night..” ~Rilke
~ Joseph Rael