As is appropriate in this bicameral sense of the earth, there’s two ways of looking at the world. Both begin their conception at the beginning.
Either the universe begins with matter or the universe begins in consciousness.
In the former, consciousness in the human being is something that mysteriously appears from out of some biological nowhere. In the latter, consciousness is already everywhere in everything, and has only been amplified into its current state through the nervous system and brain of the human being.
In the former is born duality; in the latter lies the one.
ON INTO WINTER
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I had thought to end the autumn season with Kigin’s “shape of the wind”
hokku, but a reader in Japan then sent me a new verse that seemed quite
appropriate...
3 weeks ago

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