Sometimes you need music to buoy you and sometimes music does nothing but drown out the thinking you really need to do.
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There is a meme going around toward the idea that we should not be silent about our feelings and reactions to Racefail 2009 and our lessons learned. How do I put this? I am no stranger to the idea that speaking out and getting as many opinions as possible is a good thing. When done [...] Unlike the other portions of these writings, I will not list 8 aspects of this one to keep in mind while you do your warrior’s thing. Because this one is directly number 8, I will leave the fine points here to your imagination. Mercy maps to marsh, which is in a way a compromise between [...] I hope to write a future essay here (in keeping with the Tao stuff I’ve been writing) where I talk about how being pissed off and moralistic only gets you so far in any situation where folks are doing a morally wrong thing because it’s otherwise compelling to do it. I think this essay will [...] I map Justice to the trigram for Mountain. I think that justice builds the foundations of the mountain of your commitment. It helps you be fair, merciful, honorable, wise. It helps you demonstrate that your opponents/allies should take you seriously because they know that if you are just, you will be just with all of [...] We’re heaving into the final stretch here. I hope you’ve gotten as much out of this exercise as I have! It needs to be said: Honor is very tricky. Everyone knows that it’s operative in the best warriors. Lack of honor sticks out like a sore thumb! But the problem is that honorableness requires humility. [...] As both an activist and a warrior, you cannot afford to work only on instinct. There must be a method and a direction. You should keep in mind prinicples of compassion and honor as well as try to keep your long term strategy and medium term tactics in mind. The more competent and long-lived warriors [...] Work intervened and has been hard, but I hope for some stability, or at least, as Taoism would have it, moving stability. Some way of knowing my center even though my stance must be flowing. I think that despite practical worries about job permanency, I am much improved for being older, and I hope, wiser. [...] So today I am sick but recovering. Got flu symptoms starting Friday afternoon, took today off from work and will return to work and writing (during breaks, etc.) tomorrow. Anyhow, parts 5-8 of the Tao already shaping up in notes and drafts, but I don’t anticipate finishing 5 today. I have at least four more Tao of… posts to write. I’d planned to write 8 and I’m sticking to that promise, both for symbolic and thematic reasons. I hope that it’s doing more folks than just me good, but it is doing me good to articulate myself and some of my beliefs about being [...] |
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