tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60420395025467592632024-03-21T03:47:22.226-07:00White Crane HaikuBeauty in MotionRobert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-61787533420189574712022-09-06T04:50:00.000-07:002022-09-06T04:50:17.496-07:00Travelling with Cranes along the Loire Valley in France.<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/9Rj8PqC__W4" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Travelling with Cranes along the Loire Valley in France.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">https://youtu.be/9Rj8PqC__W4</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-16552103804080400692022-08-08T11:20:00.001-07:002022-08-08T11:20:44.107-07:00BEETHOVEN Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Hilary Hahn, violin <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/0Cg_0jepxow" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">BEETHOVEN Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Hilary Hahn, violin; Leonard Slatkin, conductor</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">https://youtu.be/0Cg_0jepxow</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-72990303709551693142022-08-08T10:57:00.003-07:002022-08-08T10:57:36.445-07:00Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 Hilary Hahn<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/4mNJ43S1RIQ" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4mNJ43S1RIQ/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 Hilary Hahn</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">https://youtu.be/4mNJ43S1RIQ</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-89552103401278271242022-07-31T09:53:00.001-07:002022-07-31T09:53:21.976-07:00Sarasate: Eight Spanish Dances<div style="text-align: center;"><yt-formatted-string class="content style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" force-default-style="" split-lines="" style="color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aaron Rosand, Violin
Michal Walevski, Piano
Sarasate: Eight Spanish Dances
1. Malaguena, Op. 21 </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg78IKkbB4&t=0s" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">0:00</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
2. Habanera, Op. 21 </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg78IKkbB4&t=291s" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">4:51</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
3. Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22 </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg78IKkbB4&t=548s" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">9:08</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
4. Jota Navarra, Op. 22 </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg78IKkbB4&t=850s" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">14:10</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
5. Playera, Op. 23 </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg78IKkbB4&t=1136s" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">18:56</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
6. Zapateado, Op. 23 </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg78IKkbB4&t=1436s" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">23:56</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
7. Vito Op. 26 </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg78IKkbB4&t=1629s" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">27:09</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
8. Habanera Op. 26 </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg78IKkbB4&t=2017s" spellcheck="false" style="cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display,inline-block); overflow-wrap: var(--yt-endpoint-word-wrap,none); text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); word-break: var(--yt-endpoint-word-break,none);">33:37</a></yt-formatted-string><ytd-structured-description-content-renderer class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" inline-structured-description="" style="display: block; margin-top: 16px; overflow: hidden auto;"><div class="style-scope ytd-structured-description-content-renderer" id="items" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ytd-horizontal-card-list-renderer at-start="" can-show-more="" card-list-style="HORIZONTAL_CARD_LIST_STYLE_TYPE_ENGAGEMENT_PANEL_SECTION" class="style-scope ytd-structured-description-content-renderer" inline-structured-description="" style="border-top: 6px solid var(--yt-spec-10-percent-layer); 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqjoPsbcmuAAfDK_NU_5qoM24g8scC3f1ZsQdDIVDG1snJPVjhWt7HKXTdiwb8saPEGC3XrgNFpcRo5wl6inVh7Gav_mqaxMZjo9zlqr_jrneD_RSZ20BLSeHPM2LIXSIKe330vNn6qAPPAWEVhAMHC7jm3AqXxOekL8cyMsG1pOC9b1Sgx2oRpTn_Mg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="1140" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqjoPsbcmuAAfDK_NU_5qoM24g8scC3f1ZsQdDIVDG1snJPVjhWt7HKXTdiwb8saPEGC3XrgNFpcRo5wl6inVh7Gav_mqaxMZjo9zlqr_jrneD_RSZ20BLSeHPM2LIXSIKe330vNn6qAPPAWEVhAMHC7jm3AqXxOekL8cyMsG1pOC9b1Sgx2oRpTn_Mg=w400-h254" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iyengar</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></b></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dbikj" data-offset-key="9omvd-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9omvd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9omvd-0-0"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">To keep the body in good health is a duty.. otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.</span></b></span></div></div><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="dbikj" data-offset-key="22s0d-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="22s0d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="22s0d-0-0"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Buddha </span></b></span></div></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-25608891317763178992021-11-07T11:43:00.001-08:002022-08-08T13:08:26.004-07:00Circle of Zen: Ensō <p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8eAJzPxFPG-jawpIU9LMg1dxh1iif7g5LVFOk21C1p1z8FSGe7KRKM-zB3pYUv0zn9OoMkGujFC0TUx-SY6ngViA0-1N9M1urwaOjJzam1kPaxjZocYE2i9-EHv1X1MTDCXMfjrSMOsG6h3qamkB9orvyn-rmaoF6iNSOeuYWiKZHQkTvlve2v84pQ/s715/Circle%20of%20Zen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="520" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8eAJzPxFPG-jawpIU9LMg1dxh1iif7g5LVFOk21C1p1z8FSGe7KRKM-zB3pYUv0zn9OoMkGujFC0TUx-SY6ngViA0-1N9M1urwaOjJzam1kPaxjZocYE2i9-EHv1X1MTDCXMfjrSMOsG6h3qamkB9orvyn-rmaoF6iNSOeuYWiKZHQkTvlve2v84pQ/w291-h400/Circle%20of%20Zen.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;" title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">Ensō</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;"> (c.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start; white-space: nowrap;"> 2000</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;">) by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanjuro_Shibata_XX" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kanjuro Shibata XX">Kanjuro Shibata XX</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;">. Some artists draw </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;" title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ensō</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: start;"> with an opening in the circle, while others close the circle.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ensō</i></span> symbolizes absolute <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Enlightenment (spiritual)">enlightenment</a>, strength, elegance, the universe, and <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mu (negative)">mu</a></i></span> (the void). It is characterised by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Minimalism">minimalism</a> born of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Japanese aesthetics">Japanese aesthetics</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Drawing <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ensō</i></span> is a disciplined-creative practice of Japanese ink painting, <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumi-e" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sumi-e">sumi-e</a></i></span>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy#Tools" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Japanese calligraphy">tools</a> and mechanics of drawing the <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ensō</i></span> are the same as those used in traditional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Japanese calligraphy">Japanese calligraphy</a>: One uses an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_brush" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ink brush">ink brush</a> to apply ink to <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washi" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Washi">washi</a></i></span> (a thin Japanese paper).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The circle may be open or closed. In the former case, the circle is incomplete, allowing for movement and development as well as the perfection of all things. Zen practitioners relate the idea to <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wabi-sabi">wabi-sabi</a></i></span>, the beauty of imperfection. When the circle is closed, it represents perfection, akin to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Plato">Plato</a>'s perfect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Theory of forms">form</a>, the reason why the circle was used for centuries in the construction of cosmological models (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a>).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Usually, a person draws the <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ensō</i></span> in one fluid, expressive stroke. When drawn according to the <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dsho" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sōsho">sōsho</a></i></span> (cursive) style of Japanese calligraphy, the brushstroke is especially swift. Once the <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ensō</i></span> is drawn, one does not change it. It evidences the character of its creator and the context of its creation in a brief, continuous period of time. Drawing <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ensō</i></span> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_practice" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Spiritual practice">spiritual practice</a> that one might perform as often as once per day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This spiritual practice of drawing <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">ensō</i></span> or writing Japanese calligraphy for self-realization is called <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitsuzend%C5%8D" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hitsuzendō">hitsuzendō</a></i></span>. <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">Ensō</i></span> exemplifies the various dimensions of the Japanese <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wabi-sabi">wabi-sabi</a></i> perspective and aesthetic: <i>fukinsei</i> (asymmetry, irregularity), <i>kanso</i> (simplicity), <i>koko</i> (basic; weathered), <i>shizen</i> (without pretense; natural), <i>yugen</i> (subtly profound grace), <i>datsuzoku</i> (freedom), and <i>seijaku</i> (tranquility).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D</span></h2><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-76292632076007950042021-11-07T11:23:00.001-08:002021-11-07T11:23:23.402-08:00Daniel Dennett on the Evolution of the Mind, Consciousness and AI<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/o86W0DgrmRc" width="480"></iframe> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">https://youtu.be/o86W0DgrmRc</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-90421910348681334382020-09-16T03:01:00.001-07:002020-09-16T03:01:20.685-07:00WHIE CRANE AMONG THE HORSES<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK-qesfb9wgCxaxWnTiOm0QhBFki5xOrqtDeQ82feHH4h2KJbGhO2pSnlx-KI9kWalPMqOSIJg7VQwNRrWkz2bxVBLwNK91SpwsMDbAhtgmv730bzgTBCYqHtJZSoldbaziz-4dsnQPije/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="1019" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK-qesfb9wgCxaxWnTiOm0QhBFki5xOrqtDeQ82feHH4h2KJbGhO2pSnlx-KI9kWalPMqOSIJg7VQwNRrWkz2bxVBLwNK91SpwsMDbAhtgmv730bzgTBCYqHtJZSoldbaziz-4dsnQPije/" width="520" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-2168578327335053122019-04-24T02:58:00.002-07:002019-04-24T03:07:06.231-07:00Information Overload is the Bane of my Life <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>My daily struggle is to understand what is important, to my situation, in the constant barrage of information on the Internet. </i></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>What can and should be ignored? </i></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Is my purpose to seek distraction, novelty and entertainment? </i></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Or is the goal and purpose to my Net Surfing to gain valuable knowledge? </i></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>What do I hope to accomplish?</i></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>- </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><i>Yuval Noah Harari </i></span> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”</span></h1>
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">― <span class="authorOrTitle" style="color: #333333;">William Blake, </span><span id="quote_book_link_23913"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/24837" style="color: #333333;">The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</a></span></span></b></div>
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Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-86965679261403781652016-11-23T11:47:00.000-08:002016-11-23T11:47:32.854-08:00 Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leonard Cohen: Darkness and Praise</span></h1>
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The email from the boy began: <b>“Did anything inspire you
to create <i>Hallelujah</i>?" </b><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="460" data-total-count="460">
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Later that same winter day the reply arrived:<b><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I wanted to stand with those who clearly see God’s holy broken world
for what it is, and still find the courage or the heart to praise it.
You don’t always get what you want. You’re not always up for the
challenge. But in this case — it was given to me. For which I am deeply
grateful.”</span></i></b></div>
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question came from the author's son, who was preparing to present the hymn to his fifth-grade class. The boy required a
clarification about its meaning. The answer came from the author of the
song, Leonard Cohen.<br />
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Cohen lived in a weather of wisdom, which he created by seeking it rather
than by finding it. He swam in beauty, because in its transience he
aspired to discern a glimpse of eternity.<br />
There was always a trace of
philosophy in his sensuality.<br />
He managed to combine a sense of absurdity
with a sense of significance, a genuine feat.<br />
He was a friend
of melancholy but an enemy of gloom, and a
renegade enamored of tradition.</div>
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Leonard
was, above all, in his music and in his poems and in his tone of life, <i>
the lyrical advocate of the finite and the flawed. </i></div>
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Leonard
sang always as a sinner. He refused to describe sin as a failure or a
disqualification. Sin was a condition of life.<i> </i><br />
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<i>“Even though it all went wrong/
I’ll stand before the Lord of song/ With nothing on my tongue but
Hallelujah!”</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The
singer’s faults do not expel him from the divine presence. Instead they
confer a mortal integrity upon his exclamation of praise. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He is the
inadequate man, the lowly man, the hurt man who has given hurt,
insisting modestly but stubbornly upon his right to a sacred exaltation.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” </b></span><b> </b></span></i><br />
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<b>He once
told an interviewer that </b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>those words were <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>the closest he came to a
credo.</i></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>The teaching could not be more plain<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">: fix the crack, lose the
light.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<b>Here is<span style="background-color: yellow;"><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> a passage on frivolity</span></i></span> by a great rabbi
in Prague at the end of the 16th century:</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>“Man was born for toil, since
his perfection is always being actualized but is never actual,” </b></span><br />
<b>he
observed in an essay on <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>frivolity.</i></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>“And insofar as he attains
perfection, something is missing in him.</b> <b> In
such a being,<i> </i></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><i>perfection is a shortcoming and a lack.”</i></b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Leonard Cohen
was the poet laureate of the lack, the psalmist of the privation, who
made imperfection gorgeous.</b></span></i></div>
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Link: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/opinion/my-friend-leonard-cohen-darkness-and-praise.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&src=trending">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/opinion/my-friend-leonard-cohen-darkness-and-praise.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&src=trending</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Conclusion:</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A sense of purpose in life also gives you this considerable advantage:</span></span></b></div>
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>"People with a sense of purpose in life have a lower risk of death and cardiovascular disease."</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The conclusions come from over 136,000 people who took part in 10 different studies.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Participants in the studies were mostly from the US and Japan.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The US studies asked people:</span></b><br />
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<li><b>how useful they felt to others,</b></li>
<li><b>about their sense of purpose, and</b></li>
<li><b>the meaning they got out of life.</b></li>
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<b><br /><br />The Japanese studies asked people about ‘ikigai’ or whether their life was worth living.</b><br />
<b>The participants, whose average age was 67, were tracked for around 7 years.<br /><br />During that time almost 20,000 died.</b><b>
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<b>But, amongst those with a strong sense of purpose or high ‘ikigai’, the risk of death was one-fifth lower.</b><br />
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<b>Despite the link between sense of purpose and health being so intuitive, scientists are not sure of the mechanism.</b><br />
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<b>Sense of purpose is likely to improve health by strengthening the body against stress.</b><br />
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<b>It is also likely to be linked to healthier behaviours.</b><br />
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<b>Dr. Alan Rozanski, one of the study’s authors, said:</b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>“Of note, having a strong sense of life purpose has long
been postulated to be an important dimension of life, providing people
with a sense of vitality motivation and resilience.</b></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Nevertheless, the medical implications of living with a high or low
sense of life purpose have only recently caught the attention of
investigators.</b></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The current findings are important because they may open up new
potential interventions for helping people to promote their health and
sense of well-being.”</b></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>This research on links between <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/05/a-sense-of-purpose-helps-you-live-longer.php">sense of purpose in life and longevity</a> is getting stronger all the time:</b></span><br />
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<li><b>“A 2009 study of 1,238 elderly people found that those with a sense of purpose lived longer.</b></li>
<li><b>A 2010 study of 900 older adults found that those with a greater
sense of purpose were much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease.</b></li>
<li><b>Survey data often links a sense of purpose in life with increased happiness.</b></li>
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<b>No matter what your age, then, it’s worth thinking about what gives your life meaning.”</b><br />
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<b>Read More: </b><br />
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Find out what kinds of <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/08/the-meaning-of-life-in-under-300-words.php">things people say give their lives meaning</a>.</blockquote>
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Here’s an <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/05/what-might-have-been-the-benefits-of-counter-factual-thinking.php">exercise for increasing meaningfulness</a></blockquote>
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And a study finding that <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/10/sense-of-belonging-increases-meaningfulness-of-life.php">feeling you belong increases the sense of meaning</a>. <br />
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The study was published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000274">Cohen et al., 2015</a>). <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A sense of purpose in life</span></span></b><br />
Link: <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/12/here-is-why-a-sense-of-purpose-in-life-is-important-for-health.php?utm_source=PsyBlog&utm_campaign=20bb99705f-WEEKLY_RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_MAILCHIMP&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10ef814328-20bb99705f-213925841">http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/12/here-is-why-a-sense-of-purpose-in-life-is-important-for-health </a></blockquote>
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Dr. E.G. (Ernest Goodrich) Stillman, son of successful banker James Stillman, received degrees from Harvard and Columbia before pursuing a career in medical research. A devoted philanthropist and conservationist, Stillman was a generous benefactor of Harvard University. Like many Americans at the end of the 19th century, Stillman was drawn to Japan for its art, literature, culture, and history. During a trip to Japan in 1905, he purchased some 5,000 objects, including prints, photographs, books, and pamphlets. In the 1940s, Stillman made a large gift to the university, including a number of items from his personal collection of materials relating to Japan. Some of the photograph albums he donated contain hand-colored albumen prints taken by notable photographers such as Felice Beato, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, Kusakabe Kimbei, and Tamamura Kozaburo. These photo albums were popular souvenir items for foreign tourists. The albums would often include images of priests, pilgrims, actors, singers, street vendors, along with representative locations ranging from the urban markets to parks and gardens to spiritual shrines.</div>
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In this two album set from the Meiji period are <span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">scenic views of Tokyo, Koganei, Yokohama, Kamakura, Kobe, Matsushima Bay, and Awaji Island. Beautiful photographs of<span style="color: #32322f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> natural scenery, people, daily life, traditional customs, with iconic images of cherry trees, gardens, temples, shrines, teahouses, ferries, and rickshaws.</span></span></div>
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In another three album composite souvenir set are photographs taken in and around the inland city of Nikko, with an emphasis on the historic Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://hcl.harvard.edu/collections/epj/e_g_stillman.cfm" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51); color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Harvard College Library-Early Photography of Japan</em></a></strong></div>
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Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-14706620728927878942013-12-23T02:30:00.000-08:002013-12-23T02:30:32.124-08:00Two dragons chasing a flaming pearl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Reality is so subtle that the ancient immortals called this reality a
tiny pearl. In reality it has no such shape; they call it thus because
there is a point of conscious energy hidden in the center, and because
that point of awareness contains the whole cosmos, space, and the
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Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-1091835848634550992013-06-21T10:31:00.002-07:002013-06-21T10:31:45.320-07:00About Crane Babies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="font_18">Crane babies may grow an inch a day between 10 and 30 days of age.</span> </span><a href="http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/crane/sl/33_annual/jun.html">More...</a></td>
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On the brink of extinction, only 15 wild migratory
Whooping cranes remained in the early 1940s. Since 2001, with ultralight
aircraft leading the way, a new wild flock is being reintroduced to the
eastern U.S. The goal is 25 breeding pairs from 125 birds by 2020.
This new flock has had limited success in nesting, and the fragile
migratory population has a rocky road ahead. Why is it so hard for an
endangered species to recover? The new Eastern flock provides a unique
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Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-22623020970551719022013-06-06T12:08:00.000-07:002013-06-06T12:08:15.735-07:00Basho<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Portrait of Bashō - Hokusai
<br /> <br /><br /><br /> Matsuo Munefusa, alias Bashō (1644-94), was a Japanese poet and writer during the early Edo period. He took his pen name Bashō from his bashō-an, a hut made of plantain leaves, to where he would withdraw from society for solitude. Born of a wealthy family, Bashō was a Samurai until the age of 20, at which time he devoted himself to his poetry. Bashō was a main figure in the development of haiku, and is considered to have written the most perfect examples of the form. His poetry explores the beauties of nature and are influenced by Zen Buddhism, which lends itself to the meditative solitude sensed in his haiku. He traveled extensively throughout his lifetime. His 1689 five-month journey deep into the country north and west of Edo provided the insight for his most famous <a href="http://www.augustpoetry.org/poets/Basho.htm#">work</a> Oku no hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North). This great work was posthumoustly published in 1702 and is still read by most Japanse high school students. <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />Matsuo Bashō<br /><br /> (1644-1694) Even in Kyoto--
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This road -
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autumn evening
Another year gone--
hat in hand,
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The old pond--
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The winter sun--
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my frozen shadow. </div>
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Seeing people off,
being seen off--
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Visiting the graves--
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Midnight frost--
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When the winter chrysanthemums go
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<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.augustpoetry.org/links/index.htm">Visit the Links Page for Bashō web sites</a><br /> </div>
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Robert Lewis and Jennifer Hodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17880937181953900420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042039502546759263.post-30568680187416400922013-06-06T11:51:00.002-07:002022-08-08T14:01:01.806-07:00 May All Beings Be Happy, Healthy And Living in the Present <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="font-size: large;">Look to this day:</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">For it is life, the very life of life.</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">In its brief course</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">The bliss of growth,</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">The glory of action,</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">The splendour of achievement</b><br />
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<b style="font-size: large;">For yesterday is but a dream</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">And tomorrow is only a vision;</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">And today well-lived, makes</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">Yesterday a dream of happiness</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">And every tomorrow a vision of hope.</b><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">Look well therefore to this day;</b><br />
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*Kalidasa was the greatest of the sanskrit dramatists, and the first great name in Sanskrit literature after Ashvaghoshha. In the intervening three centuries between Asvaghosha (who had a profound influence on the poet) and Kalidasa there was some literary effort, but nothing that could compare with the maturity and excellence of Kalidasa's poetry. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Virtually no facts are known about his life, although colourful legends abound. Physically handsome, he was supposed to have been a very dull child, and grew up quite uneducated. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Through the match-making efforts of a scheming minister he was married to a princess who was ashamed of his ignorance and coarseness. </span></div>
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