Two Trees – Friendliness – Osho Zen Card no.2
September 8, 2010http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Sub1Menu=Tarot&Sub2Menu=OshoZenTarot&Language=English
First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You don’t depend on others and you don’t make others dependent on you. Then it is always a friendship, a friendliness. It never becomes a relationship, it is always a relatedness. You relate, but you don’t create a marriage. Marriage is out of fear, relatedness is out of love. You relate; as long as things are moving beautifully, you share. And if you see that the moment has come to depart because your paths separate at this crossroad, you say good-bye with great gratitude for all that the other has been to you, for all the joys and all the pleasures and all the beautiful moments that you have shared with the other. With no misery, with no pain, you simply separate.
Osho The White Lotus Chapter 10
Commentary:
The branches of these two flowering trees are intertwined, and their fallen petals blend together on the ground in their beautiful colors. It is as if heaven and earth are bridged by love. But they stand individually, each rooted in the soil in their own connection with the earth. In this way they represent the essence of true friends, mature, easy with each other, natural. There is no urgency about their connection, no neediness, no desire to change the other into something else. This card indicates a readiness to enter this quality of friendliness. In the passage, you may notice that you are no longer interested in all kinds of dramas and romances that other people are engaged in. It is not a loss. It is the birth of a higher, more loving quality born of the fullness of experience. It is the birth of a love that is truly unconditional, without expectations or demands.
Bride, Groom, Friends, Lovers, Brothers, Daughters and Mothers on Evergreen Beach, Peaks Island, ME August 28, 2010
September 7, 2010
Watermelon Sugar
August 26, 2010I don’t think i liked it.
Supposedly everything was made out of it.
But did everyone have to get drunk on the past —
cut off all their reaching parts — in front of people who weren’t opposing them.
In front of the people who were cultivating life — who listened to their proclamations —
as they tried to prove they knew more of what death was?
What were they trying to say?
Why must one die of a broken heart?
One must not let their heart break.
I’m leaning toward what Pauline said – ASSHOLES.
Margaret really did just get lost while she collected beautiful forgotten things.
She wasn’t drunk, just lost, maybe just in the wrong place.
Still, the codes aren’t able to be translated all the way.
Foxglove burning, eternally lighting up a tomb, seen from a river bank or bridge to the depths.
A constant reminder of what no one will let be forgotten.
Really the past played into every part.
No one should have to plan the colors of the day if they are present.
One would wake up and decide.
They all made conclusions based on how it happened before.
No one ever explained how so many different things were produced from one source.
Not feasible, or logical, but intriguing.
I would stop using the watermelon products if it kept me in a place like that.
and the silence, at the end, a nice addition to the funeral.
The not being able to hear a thing, and then dancing.
7.21.10 Birthday Playlist (channeled through Portland’s 98.9 wclz)
July 22, 2010Jakob Dylan & Niko Case – Nothin But the Whole Wide World
David Gray – Sail Away With Me
Tori Amos – Crucify
Sister Hazel – Change Your Mind
Ray LaMontagne – Beg, Steal or Borrow
Matchbox Twenty – Push
Jump Little Children – Cathedrals
Collective Soul – Shine
Palace Something – Will Oldham
July 11, 2010Well, I guess the idea is that when you have a name of a group or an artist, then you expect that the next record, if it has the same name, should be the same group of people playing on it. And I just thought we were making a different kind of record each time, with different people, and different themes, and different sounds. So I thought it was important to call it something different so that people would be aware of the differences.[2]
Falling Asleep around Midnight at the end of June after searching out La Luna (clouded) on the back shore
June 29, 2010Fallen
Falling
Fell
Felt
if nobody wants anything
Does nothing happen?
BRAUTIGAN (killed himslef)
Survived by his 20 something year old
daughter who knew he wanted to die since she was 9.
ARE/OUR
ISLAND ROMANCE
IS NOT like Harper’s Island.
NO GHOSTS
OR HIDDEN RELATIONSHIPS
OPEN UP.
Trying to Direct a Crane to Come Out This Way.
June 24, 2010Starting with a square piece of paper make a triangle (one way) with color/pattern folded inside. Open and make a triangle (the other way) with color/pattern on the folded inside. Open up to a creased X visible and fold into a rectangle with the color/pattern on the outside. Open and fold a rectangle the other way, keeping the color on the outside.
Now you have a square, color/pattern facing up, with 8 triangles between the folds. Grab each side of a rectangle fold and push the middle up and together to make a square diamond. This is tricky to describe. Everything must get folded into itself. The top becomes the body and the bottom stays open. You fold the bottom, one side at a time, into the middle crease. Then you flip it over and fold into the middle crease on the other side. Now it looks like a kite. Fold the top of the kite down over one side to make a crease and then put it back to looking like a kite.
This next part is the most difficult. You must unfold/open one side up, pull it out, and fold it down into a long diamond.
The same with the other side. Now there is a long rhombus/diamond with legs that move and a top that stays still.
Make the legs skinnier by folding them in close to the middle crease. Then tuck the leg up into its side, but not all the way. Line it up with the outside. Do this to both sides.
On one side you fold a tiny portion down to make a head and the other side is the tail. Open the wings up and expand the middle to make it sit up.
It took Elise (an experienced crane maker) making four or five consecutive cranes with me to get it programed into my muscle memory. She is good at directing one to fold, and half of these words she surely said in the process of showing me yesterday. No way is this (post) the appropriate means for directing the becoming of a crane. One needs an actual present teacher and responder to their folding. There is constant correction as one begins to go through the steps. Trying to write out a recipe for others to use sans direct interaction fails! This post intends to fail. There shall be no cranes to come in response.
However, if you come to 157 High St. There is now an assortment of colorful cranes in x to give away with visits and purchases, and there is someone to show you how to make one! Elise left us some paper!
True Blue Island 