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• Vittaka – initial application (connect)
• Vicara – sustained application (sustain)

Five Jhana Factors
see also Dharma Lists

the wabi, the country gnarliness

Can we say that wabi-sabi is a postmodern form? Perhaps, if you think, with Lyotard, that there is postmodernism present in every age. However, I like seeing the postmodern as roughly succeeding the modern, and though wabi-sabi can be appropriated, more consideration is needed before labeling it so. And does it really profit us to say so? Better and clearer to indicate its separation from the modern altogether and call it non-modern.

Salt in the Code: Seeking Wabi Sabi in Digital Culture

Commentary on poet & nasturtiums:

Philip [Whalen] was fond of these, particularly the orange flowering nasturtium. No one had any money; we didn’t have a vase. We had a mayonnaise jar, and we filled it with water, and we put it on the windowsill in the sun…

From Mantis 3: Interview, All Moments are One, Michael McClure

the equinox petroglyph project

In October of 2006, one of the most sacred and well-documented sites of ancient petroglyphs on the eastern seaboard of the United States was returned to its original peoples, the Passamaquoddy Tribe. The site is known as “Picture Rocks” and lies on the Machias Bay in “Downeast” Maine. The rock carvings and peckings date as far back as 3,000 to 5,000 years and its most ancient peckings may be as old as 10,000 years. Believed to be made by Shamans, the petroglyphs are positioned such that they are the most visible at the Fall or Spring Equinox and thus the name of the Exhibition, The Equinox Petroglyph Project: Interpretations by Women and Children.