No Wrong Turns: The Daniel Higgs Appreciation Society

“No wrong turns – they do not exist. You cannot diverge from the path – it’s impossible.” Daniel Higgs Inimitable and visionary, the singer, musician, poet, painter, and tattoo-artist Daniel Higgs is a modern-day troubadour, or better yet perhaps a shaman from the post-industrial state. Lyrically and visually Higgs has constantly turned symbols and concepts […]

Original Vibration: Singing Bowls and Sacred Horns

As Space Blobs continue to baffle scientists and Sun Ra paints my summer mindscape with intergalactic questions and answers, my thoughts turn once again to the exploration of fundamental concepts in Eastern thought, specifically Vedic philosophy. Earlier I posted an essay attempting to articulate the concept of nondualism by creating an analogy with water drops […]

The Mysterious Wisdom of Dark Energy Pt. 2: Lao Tzu vs. Quantum Mechanics

Anyone who has delved even superficially into the great philosophical traditions of the East is familiar with the apparently paradoxical encouragement to “embrace the void.” Indeed, the famous aphorism “Emptiness is form, form is emptiness” vexes and taunts the Western mind. In the TAOTECHING (as masterfully translated by Red Pine) Lao Tzu ruminates in verse […]

The Mysterious Wisdom of Dark Energy Pt. 1: Chuang Tzu vs. Wu-Tang

Recent mysterious scientific discoveries have finally confirmed the existence of “dark energy” – the energy, predicted by Einstein but counterintuitive to what we understand about reality, that is able to explain why the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. It turns out that dark energy actually composes 74% of the known Universe, with “dark matter” (matter […]

Asian Noodles Sound System

In the far-away left-coast land of O.B., ancient legend tells of an ice-cream truck painted entirely in Rastafarian red, gold and green with an enormous booming sound system attached to the roof selling Asian noodles late nights to the bar crawlers, Vietnamese fishermen and penniless monks that can be found along Newport Avenue. Meditating on […]

The New Haiku Vol. 2

Tall summer grass reveals the shape of the breeze; only the siren of insects. 0 Even here among the snow-swept, desolate hinterlands of my consciousness the itinerant shepherds sing your praises. 0 When nothing else is, at least the rain is true. 0 The ego is a traveler walking barefoot and wide-eyed through the landscape […]

The New Haiku Vol. I

After a long rolling thunderstorm Invisible in the night I’m awoken by birdsong In the early dawn. Backing away from the crib, My ankle cracking Wakes the baby. Cruzando el mar Buscando el agua Inquieta mi alma Hasta que yo llegue… Brutal is the sobering From the intoxication Of illusion. Microcosmos of egos Germinating inside […]

Quote from Chinese State Television:

“Long stretch jump type flame for stirring emotional blow.” I totally agree.

Nondualism

Nondualism Imagine a mass of water, a wave moving along the surface of the immensity of the ocean, and at one point a part of that wave seems to break away and become a different wave that eventually heaves backwards and crashes together with the wave from which it emerged. The crash – the explosion […]