Dear Je Kan,
"( just cannot use the language..smile)"
Please indulge me!
What I am desperately pleading for (not demanding or imposing) is a form of
language that doesn't impose definitive categories upon nature (including
human nature), yet allows us to acknowledge distinctive dynamic localities
in the flow. Every time someone uses the 'whole' word (and its many
derivatives), even and especially with the best of intentions, I feel a
stab of pain in the heart of my soul. Such language is not to my mind
mindful, but neglectful.
I am pleading for a language of allusion (and a mathematics of allusion,
for that matter, see poems below) that allows me and us to breathe in a
limitless pool, not suffocate in a stagnant pond. I have given a lot of
attention to what that kind of language could be like, and am continually
working on it. I am not demanding that others use my language, but inviting
them mindfully to reflect on the implications of theirs - and attune this
where apt.
And talking about 'survival', I note that the atomistic neglecters are
about to start up their fiendish machine (the Large Hadron Collider) again,
God help us.
Love
Alan
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A Language of Allusion
We searched the sures of here and there
And everywhere
To find a language of allusion
Which saves us from conclusion
Before the high and mighty
Who dooms us to occlusion
Through unforgiving passion
For what’s been done and done by
All in the name of fashion
A judgement freed from lenience
That saves the inconvenience
Of taking stock of silence
Amidst the ruthless measure
Yet in that absence misses
The flow between the kisses
Which turns what’s marked by crosses
>From signs of wrong to right
For when that fine illusion
Of wording’s fixed intrusion
Admits its lacked dimension
Of infinity in tension
The song sounding in its lyrics
Waxes into revelation
Of nakedness trembling with exhilaration
Beneath the harsh lining of its clothes
And in that shivering of hope and fear
All pretension falls from flaw to floor
No longer shrieking dreadful oaths
Against the marriage that it loathes
Between the sweet resistance of response
And what is held in open arms
That seek embrace in gentle warmth
Not that ice-hot war of words that harms
---
The Devil In the Definition
The Devil lives in the definition
That place to secure lofty ambition
In a Whole with no Ground
For looking around
At what’s gone missing
>From mouths without kissing
No opening space
For lives sunk without trace
In spirit strained free from compassion
Where we’re told it’s in fashion
The bliss of the blessed
To dress with no hole
For suffering soul
To find love in its heart
Whilst falling apart
Transfixed in becoming distressed
Where smile fixes to grin
Above jutting chin
On the face that speaks of the need
To stay wilfully positive
In the face of the weed
Whose cries suck you in
To a place indescribably negative
Where doubt finds out
You’re not wearing a clout
Because in a dress with no hole
There’s no room for your soul
And that’s what’s gone missing
>From mouths sealed from kissing
---
Return From Calculus
To differentiate is not to define!
They put the cart before the horse
So that the poor thing got stuck in a rut
Those argumentative back-projectors
Newton and Liebniz
Whose deepest desire
Was to come first
Like Adam before Eve
On the Eve of their Fall
By cutting out space
>From within the curve
Leaving the line shattered
Into helpless nonentities
Disguised as identities
By imposing minds
So that to integrate
We need only to add
What they failed to subtract
In their infinite regression
>From All down to nought
But not quite
That informing presence
Adrift in our Time
Male without female
A self-negating false positive
With nowhere to hide
That takes us along
For its forgetful ride
Until some One gives notice
He can no longer bear
His harsh isolation
>From somewhere to care
And rejoins his partner
In joyful communion
An affair of the heart
Where absence makes fonder
After millennia apart
And in that reunion
We need hardly add
What should never have been put asunder
By defining what’s bad
A place that’s beneath us
As we soar to great heights
Before returning the home
Subtracted from substance
To make solid figures
Meaningless in the absence
Of what needs them to care
For the receptive silence
Of everywhere
No, differentiation isn’t what’s wanted
To look askance
But it is what’s needed
To configure variety
In complex self-dance
Of one within other
Transfigured by chance
Everywhere needs somewhere to love
--On 20 November 2009 11:45 +0900 Dr Je Kan Adler-Collins
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>
> Dear Karen, Thank you for your email which I enjoyed very much. I usually
> lurk on this list as the language is often hard for me to get my head
> round as I try to see how it can inform my practice. However I do love
> the philosophical aspect of the discussions as well. Working in Asia as I
> do, I try to imagine how I can make much of what is said understandable
> outside of the lists context. I am with Alan on much of his thinking (
> just cannot use the language..smile) as it links so deeply with Buddhist
> mindfulness. You said : But then why are men more spatially aware than
> women, in general, and better at certain tasks which involve detail and
> dexterity. I have to question that as I have seen so many women working
> in terrible conditions in Asian countries as factory workers assembling
> intricate computer parts, soldering and doing so many tasks for western
> consumerism as the labor cost is cheap. I believe that there are
> biological difference in the sexes that are just biology, take the
> physical constraints out of being a hunter gather and give a women a mode
> of transport and a gun, they are equally as efficient as a man. In terms
> of flying women have faster reactions than men and some argue make better
> pilots..smile. Much of our perceived difference are just down to social
> conditioning and learned behavior. Smile , big hugs..
>
> AS for survival, we are not doing such a good job of it because our
> present way of living is unsustainable to the environment.
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> Dr Je Kan Adler-Collins Ph.D MA PGCE REMT RN
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> In the pursuit of learning every day some thing is accuired.
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> In the pursuit of the Tao, every day some thing is dropped.
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> Lao Tsu.Tao Te Ching: 48
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> From: Practitioner-Researcher
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karen
> Alexandra Mary Thompson Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 2:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The left right brain debate.
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> Dear Je Kan
>
> I understand that the left /right brain debate, when one applies science
> and neuro investigations to it, loses its thread really. Its much more
> spiritual than that and you are right about the Buddhist theory of
> mindfulness. Perhaps there are other phrases we could use -
> masculine/feminine ; inner/outer ; inclusional/occlusional?
>
>
>
> But then why are men more spatially aware than women, in general, and
> better at certain tasks which involve detail and dexterity ...,as ever
> we raise more questions than answers. Perhaps education didnt 'borrow' it
> from science but the reverse is true - think of European medieval
> education in philosophy , maths, geometry, poetry...dare I say it -
> alchemy!!
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>
>
> I have often imagined what it would be like to for one person to be bale
> to speak every language, play every musical instrument known to man, be
> able to do gymnastics, climb mountains, sail oceans and be very fit, and
> also be capable of reading very fast, being able to perform highly
> skilled surgical procedures, recite everything they had ever read. But
> then would love compassion, empathy sympathy and so on also be in that
> equation?
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>
>
> In terms of sacred geometry, I can reduce it down to one simple thing -
> survival!!
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>
> Love Karen
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr Je Kan Adler-Collins <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 4:43
> Subject: The left right brain debate.
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>
>
> Dear Geisha,
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>
> I am somewhat of a lurker on this list and only post when inspired to do
> so. I have listened with great interest to the debates. Alan?s last
> posting is perhaps on the same wavelength as mine. The left and right
> brain debate is very dated and yet another form of separation.
> Educational theory is often behind medical research and in the case of
> left or right Brain theory they are light years behind. Talbot's
> holographic universe is a good book to read and is in keeping with the
> new FMRI research which indicates the brain is an object of wholeness
> located in the local and non-local . Local as in the whole brain fires up
> electrically in patterns of light, some parts of the brain do have higher
> readings that others depending of their function but this is not an
> indication of left or right brain logic being applied to that of the
> control of the body eg, right hemisphere controls the left side of the
> body. Non local in that the brains electrical activity is not separate to
> or from its environment. Local wave patterns such as thinking seem to be
> placed within the domain of the mind for want of a better word..smile.
> However, your thoughts, love and compassion can start a ripple through
> time and space as it moves with all the energy of the originator. So I
> guess that Buddhist theory of mindfulness suggests that all our thoughts
> have energy and power beyond the local which is one of the concepts of
> energy medicine, healing and prayer. I do dislike entering debates on
> western and non western thinking but respectfully suggest that right
> brain and left brain thinking is a medical model for science borrowed by
> education. The beauty of our mind and brain in an energy sense is that it
> has no limitations other than those we place on it. Anyway , I off back
> to sleep now.. Hugs from Japan. Je Kan
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr Je Kan Adler-Collins Ph.D MA PGCE REMT RN
>
> Associate Professor of Nursing
>
> Health Promotion Centre
>
> Fukuoka Prefectural University
>
> Ita 4395
>
> Tagawa City
>
> Fukuoka prefecture
>
> Japan
>
> 8258585
>
>
>
>
>
> tel:(Direct) +81 947 42 1367
>
> fax: +81 947 42 6171
>
> http: www.living-action-research.org
>
> msn: [log in to unmask]
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>
>
> In the pursuit of learning every day some thing is accuired.
>
> In the pursuit of the Tao, every day some thing is dropped.
>
> Lao Tsu.Tao Te Ching: 48
>
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