Great photograph. I thought about the above post ...

2009-11-03T01:25:52.740-05:00

Great photograph.

I thought about the above post this evening while reading excerpts from Rene Daumal's "Letters on the Search for Awakening: 1934-1944" in the Fall edition of Parabola.

Excerpt from a letter to Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, November 1941:

"Another way of putting it would be (without knowing Chinese) to propose this new translation of the first line of the TAO TE CHING: "A way that is entirely laid out, no, it is not the way." I told you that I have encountered in my life a true teaching. One of the signs of its truth, for me, is that it never proposes an entirely prescribed path. No, at every step the entire dilemma is revisited. For me, nothing is resolved once and for all. And what I have always loved in you is your refusal of a prearranged path, and that's important to me because alone one can't sustain such a position. We must be a number of people to help each other, to awaken one another."

Well, I had an essay prepared, hence deleted, as Daumal quite took the wind out of my sails; however, I do wonder where it may all lead, given that we misjudge, misinterpret, fail to listen deeply, desire validation and struggle within control dramas all of the time. Yet, if unity is not some Utopian mythology, it has its' seeds and possibility elsewhere. Something in the collective unconscious longs for it ideally, but in reality, borrowing some profound social upheaval, such a notion inevitably fails. Cynical, I admit.

Blessings~

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