On Divine Grace

Feel the radioactivity of mad divine grace from that great big satguru in the sky!

Divine grace is part electric socket and part lightning and thunder.

Before the turn is strictly karmic. After the turn is all about divine grace.

Basho Oku No Hosomichi

Why has no vlogger done a thorough travelog on oku no hosomichi?

I followed his footsteps in hiraizumi, matsushima, and yamadera. I would love to see all that went on north of the shirakawa barrier.

Hiraizumi

(tr-stryk)

Summer grasses

All that remains

Of soldiers’ dreams

Yamadera

(tr-matsuobashohaikublog)

Ah, the Quiet, but piercing the Rocks — the Cry of the Cicada

Matsushima

Matsushima ya

Aa matsushima ya

Matsushima ya

All World Breaking Out (for Shankara, Arthur M, and Julian of Norwich)

The concept of avidya

(beginningless ignorance) is like original sin

without the god-fearing gods.

In this reflection of consciousness in paradise

the mind naturally sides with itself

and all world breaks out.

All shall be well—

it’s just the self-reflexive play between awareness and self-awareness

where consciousness meets the road.

paraversical version

The concept of avidya (beginningless ignorance) is like original sin without the god-fearing gods.

In this reflection of consciousness in paradise, the mind naturally sides with itself. And all world breaks out.

All shall be well—it’s just the self-reflexive play between awareness and self-awareness where consciousness meets the road.