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The duality of inside and outside one’s awareness, i.e., the conscious and subconscious realm of existence, continues to provide never ending debate and contemplation. Some aficionados of the Zen Circle point to the similarity of white space inside and outside of the circle. The circle has created a duality of inside/outside that doesn't exist in reality. Descartes perceived duality a bit different. However, imagination--considering the phenomena of a black circle on a white page--begs the question: Is that which is inside also outside, and is not what is outside also inside? As within, so without. A real Zen master would erase the line and meditate upon the blank page…as perhaps we as writers do often.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

TIME AND ECHOES

Arrest

your today as you

Allow

the forgetfulness of tomorrow

Respect

the pain of yesterday as you

Embrace

the now which thrives not on the past

Seek

beneath the jewel of the moment

Cherish

the facets of reflective memories

Reify

the forever-resonant as halos above the abyss

Let free

the shackles of attachment

For just as infinity knows not Time

so too Creativity's countenance seeks no end

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Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Reviewed on October 28, 2012

As in most of your work, there is much Food for Thought here.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Reviewed on October 27, 2012

As I contemplate the blankness of comments below me (there will be comments above me later), I don't find much time for determining what Zen masters do, but then I think it's because they partake in mind altering drugs that I have never taken and therefore do not have as much creativity or interest in what goes on inside and outside of circles. That said, I'm sure there are plenty of poets out here that are willing to tackle your words in a more meaningful way having fathomed the mysteries of being and yang and all of that.

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