Sunday, November 21, 2021

Whales Weep Not! by D.H. Lawrence

Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence, 1885 - 1930 They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs. The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers there they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of the sea! And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunk delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods. Then the great bull lies up against his bride in the blue deep bed of the sea, as mountain pressing on mountain, in the zest of life: and out of the inward roaring of the inner red ocean of whale-blood the long tip reaches strong, intense, like the maelstrom-tip, and comes to rest in the clasp and the soft, wild clutch of a she-whale’s fathomless body. And over the bridge of the whale’s strong phallus, linking the wonder of whales the burning archangels under the sea keep passing, back and forth, keep passing, archangels of bliss from him to her, from her to him, great Cherubim that wait on whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end. And bull-whales gather their women and whale-calves in a ring when danger threatens, on the surface of the ceaseless flood and range themselves like great fierce Seraphim facing the threat encircling their huddled monsters of love. And all this happens in the sea, in the salt where God is also love, but without words: and Aphrodite is the wife of whales most happy, happy she! and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

Sunday, September 19, 2021

~Summer Is Over~

The badminton court is empty Steady rain has made the ground soggy The net sags Rackets lean against a tree Shuttlecocks rest in the notch The hammock is soaked Volleyball, football, basketball, wiffle ball Golf ball, tennis ball, soccer ball Summer is over and we've had a ball While civilization fell apart all around us Craig Louis Stehr 18.IX.'21 The Magic Ranch Redwood Valley, California

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Evening Aarti Lord Shiva Ice Lingam Amarnath Cave INDIA 18.VII.'21

Okay all of you climate justice activists, here is the worship of the Lord Shiva ice lingam in the cave at Amarnath, evening of July 18th, 2021...BRINGING IN THE SPIRITUAL MOJO!!! >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_kgYIBr3UU

Monday, February 22, 2021

Bodhinyana

"Don't be in a hurry and try to push or rush your practice. Do your meditation gently and gradually step by step. In regard to peacefulness, if you become peaceful, then accept it; if you don't become peaceful, then accept that also. That's the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persistently keep at it." ~Ajahn Chah http://ajahnchah.org/book/_Bodhinyana.php

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

STOP ROTTING IN THE QUAGMIRE OF SAMSARA!!!

To study the Buddha way Is to study oneself. To study oneself Is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be Enlightened by the myriad dharmas. To be enlightened By the myriad dharmas Is to bring about the dropping away Of body and mind and Of both oneself and others. The traces of enlightenment Come to an end And this traceless enlightenment Is continued endlessly. ~ Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogen

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

D.T. Suzuki Quotation

Zen is a wafting cloud in the sky. No screw fastens it, no string holds it; it moves as it lists. No amount of meditation will keep Zen in one place. - D.T. Suzuki