Tandem The ineffable treasure of sangha.

Tandem

The ineffable treasure of sangha.

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Tandem The ineffable treasure of sangha.

Tandem

The ineffable treasure of sangha.

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Tandem Let us walk alone together, comrade sojourner. We will be like pebbles in a bag, polishing each other bright. _(Ship's dogs, ca. 1920, courtesy of the US Navy andRawpixel.com.) _

Tandem

The ineffable treasure of sangha.

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Tandem Let us walk alone together, comrade sojourner. We will be like pebbles in a bag, polishing each other bright. _(Ship's dogs, ca. 1920, courtesy of the US Navy andRawpixel.com.) _

Tandem

The ineffable treasure of sangha.

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#ship, #dependentcoarising, #dog, #hermitpractice, #navy #sangha, #Zen

Tandem The ineffable treasure of sangha.

Tandem

The ineffable treasure of sangha.

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#ship, #dependentcoarising, #dog, #hermitpractice, #navy #sangha, #Zen

Tandem Let us walk alone together, comrade sojourner. We will be like pebbles in a bag, polishing each other bright. _(Ship's dogs, ca. 1920, courtesy of the US Navy andRawpixel.com.) _

Tandem

The ineffable treasure of sangha.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/09/tandem.html

#ship, #dependentcoarising, #dog, #hermitpractice, #navy #sangha, #Zen

Tandem Let us walk alone together, comrade sojourner. We will be like pebbles in a bag, polishing each other bright. _(Ship's dogs, ca. 1920, courtesy of the US Navy andRawpixel.com.) _

Tandem

The ineffable treasure of sangha.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/09/tandem.html

#ship, #dependentcoarising, #dog, #hermitpractice, #navy #sangha, #Zen

Everything Is Time Stuff doesn't exist.

Everything Is Time

Stuff doesn't exist.

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#BradWarner, #CarlRovelli, #dependentcoarising, #hermitpractice, #impermanence, #paradox, #science, #Zen

Everything Is Time > "The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming. > > "We can think of the world as made up of things. Of substances. Of entities. Of something that is. Or we can think of it as made up of events. Of happenings. Of processes. Of something that occurs. Something that does not last, and that undergoes continual transformation, that is not permanent in time. > > […] > > "Thinking of the world as a collection of events, of processes, is the way that allows us to better grasp, comprehend, and describe it. […] The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events. > > […] > > "A stone is a prototypical 'thing': we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an 'event.' It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones. > > "The basic units in terms of which we comprehend the world are not located in some specific point in space. […] They are spatially but also temporally delimited: they are events." > > Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time What Dr. Rovelli, internationally noted theoretical physicist and philosopher of science, is saying here, is that a rock isn't an object; it's an event. Which is true of literally every "thing"; they're phenomena, not matter. They only exist for a specific time, their natures changing from moment to moment. So time is the only thing objectively present in that space. We think objects are solid and exist because we can't grasp the temporary (the word means "subject to time") nature of matter and energy – which are the components of "stuff". But stuff is an illusion. (More accurately, it's a hasty conclusion, leading to a practical fiction.) So the good doctor has at long last caught science up with Zen, of which this notion of an "empty" universe, where things don't really exist, but are instead an ever-changing stream of dependent co-arising (scientists call it "attraction") that never attains stasis, is a fundamental teaching. Which is why every "thing" in the universe – you and me and rocks and trees and amœbas and planets and galaxies and Labrador retrievers – aren't objects or things at all, or even matter, but events. Literal products of time, having a beginning and end, because the agglomeration of attractions that make us all up never settles on a permanent relationship, and eventually dissipates entirely, its components running off to join other processes, in the manner of a wave or a cloud. Thanks to Brad Warner, whose latest book, The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being, alerted me to Dr. Rovelli's thoughts on this matter. (Who, by the way, is also a professor emeritus of L'Université Aix-Marseille Luminy, where I spent a year in the late 80s. An observation à propos of nothing but my startled satisfaction.) _(Photo courtesy of Neil Owen and Wikimedia.com.)_

Everything Is Time

Stuff doesn't exist.

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#BradWarner, #CarlRovelli, #dependentcoarising, #hermitpractice, #impermanence, #paradox, #science, #Zen

Everything Is Time > "The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming. > > "We can think of the world as made up of things. Of substances. Of entities. Of something that is. Or we can think of it as made up of events. Of happenings. Of processes. Of something that occurs. Something that does not last, and that undergoes continual transformation, that is not permanent in time. > > […] > > "Thinking of the world as a collection of events, of processes, is the way that allows us to better grasp, comprehend, and describe it. […] The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events. > > […] > > "A stone is a prototypical 'thing': we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an 'event.' It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones. > > "The basic units in terms of which we comprehend the world are not located in some specific point in space. […] They are spatially but also temporally delimited: they are events." > > Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time What Dr. Rovelli, internationally noted theoretical physicist and philosopher of science, is saying here, is that a rock isn't an object; it's an event. Which is true of literally every "thing"; they're phenomena, not matter. They only exist for a specific time, their natures changing from moment to moment. So time is the only thing objectively present in that space. We think objects are solid and exist because we can't grasp the temporary (the word means "subject to time") nature of matter and energy – which are the components of "stuff". But stuff is an illusion. (More accurately, it's a hasty conclusion, leading to a practical fiction.) So the good doctor has at long last caught science up with Zen, of which this notion of an "empty" universe, where things don't really exist, but are instead an ever-changing stream of dependent co-arising (scientists call it "attraction") that never attains stasis, is a fundamental teaching. Which is why every "thing" in the universe – you and me and rocks and trees and amœbas and planets and galaxies and Labrador retrievers – aren't objects or things at all, or even matter, but events. Literal products of time, having a beginning and end, because the agglomeration of attractions that make us all up never settles on a permanent relationship, and eventually dissipates entirely, its components running off to join other processes, in the manner of a wave or a cloud. Thanks to Brad Warner, whose latest book, The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being, alerted me to Dr. Rovelli's thoughts on this matter. (Who, by the way, is also a professor emeritus of L'Université Aix-Marseille Luminy, where I spent a year in the late 80s. An observation à propos of nothing but my startled satisfaction.) _(Photo courtesy of Neil Owen and Wikimedia.com.)_

Everything Is Time

Stuff doesn't exist.

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#BradWarner, #CarlRovelli, #dependentcoarising, #hermitpractice, #impermanence, #paradox, #science, #Zen

Everything Is Time Stuff doesn't exist.

Everything Is Time

Stuff doesn't exist.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/08/ever...

#BradWarner, #CarlRovelli, #dependentcoarising, #hermitpractice, #impermanence, #paradox, #science, #Zen

Everything Is Time > "The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming. > > "We can think of the world as made up of things. Of substances. Of entities. Of something that is. Or we can think of it as made up of events. Of happenings. Of processes. Of something that occurs. Something that does not last, and that undergoes continual transformation, that is not permanent in time. > > […] > > "Thinking of the world as a collection of events, of processes, is the way that allows us to better grasp, comprehend, and describe it. […] The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events. > > […] > > "A stone is a prototypical 'thing': we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an 'event.' It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones. > > "The basic units in terms of which we comprehend the world are not located in some specific point in space. […] They are spatially but also temporally delimited: they are events." > > Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time What Dr. Rovelli, internationally noted theoretical physicist and philosopher of science, is saying here, is that a rock isn't an object; it's an event. Which is true of literally every "thing"; they're phenomena, not matter. They only exist for a specific time, their natures changing from moment to moment. So time is the only thing objectively present in that space. We think objects are solid and exist because we can't grasp the temporary (the word means "subject to time") nature of matter and energy – which are the components of "stuff". But stuff is an illusion. (More accurately, it's a hasty conclusion, leading to a practical fiction.) So the good doctor has at long last caught science up with Zen, of which this notion of an "empty" universe, where things don't really exist, but are instead an ever-changing stream of dependent co-arising (scientists call it "attraction") that never attains stasis, is a fundamental teaching. Which is why every "thing" in the universe – you and me and rocks and trees and amœbas and planets and galaxies and Labrador retrievers – aren't objects or things at all, or even matter, but events. Literal products of time, having a beginning and end, because the agglomeration of attractions that make us all up never settles on a permanent relationship, and eventually dissipates entirely, its components running off to join other processes, in the manner of a wave or a cloud. Thanks to Brad Warner, whose latest book, The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being, alerted me to Dr. Rovelli's thoughts on this matter. (Who, by the way, is also a professor emeritus of L'Université Aix-Marseille Luminy, where I spent a year in the late 80s. An observation à propos of nothing but my startled satisfaction.) _(Photo courtesy of Neil Owen and Wikimedia.com.)_

Everything Is Time

Stuff doesn't exist.

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#BradWarner, #CarlRovelli, #dependentcoarising, #hermitpractice, #impermanence, #paradox, #science, #Zen

Everything Is Time > "The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming. > > "We can think of the world as made up of things. Of substances. Of entities. Of something that is. Or we can think of it as made up of events. Of happenings. Of processes. Of something that occurs. Something that does not last, and that undergoes continual transformation, that is not permanent in time. > > […] > > "Thinking of the world as a collection of events, of processes, is the way that allows us to better grasp, comprehend, and describe it. […] The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events. > > […] > > "A stone is a prototypical 'thing': we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an 'event.' It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones. > > "The basic units in terms of which we comprehend the world are not located in some specific point in space. […] They are spatially but also temporally delimited: they are events." > > Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time What Dr. Rovelli, internationally noted theoretical physicist and philosopher of science, is saying here, is that a rock isn't an object; it's an event. Which is true of literally every "thing"; they're phenomena, not matter. They only exist for a specific time, their natures changing from moment to moment. So time is the only thing objectively present in that space. We think objects are solid and exist because we can't grasp the temporary (the word means "subject to time") nature of matter and energy – which are the components of "stuff". But stuff is an illusion. (More accurately, it's a hasty conclusion, leading to a practical fiction.) So the good doctor has at long last caught science up with Zen, of which this notion of an "empty" universe, where things don't really exist, but are instead an ever-changing stream of dependent co-arising (scientists call it "attraction") that never attains stasis, is a fundamental teaching. Which is why every "thing" in the universe – you and me and rocks and trees and amœbas and planets and galaxies and Labrador retrievers – aren't objects or things at all, or even matter, but events. Literal products of time, having a beginning and end, because the agglomeration of attractions that make us all up never settles on a permanent relationship, and eventually dissipates entirely, its components running off to join other processes, in the manner of a wave or a cloud. Thanks to Brad Warner, whose latest book, The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being, alerted me to Dr. Rovelli's thoughts on this matter. (Who, by the way, is also a professor emeritus of L'Université Aix-Marseille Luminy, where I spent a year in the late 80s. An observation à propos of nothing but my startled satisfaction.) _(Photo courtesy of Neil Owen and Wikimedia.com.)_

Everything Is Time

Stuff doesn't exist.

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#BradWarner, #CarlRovelli, #dependentcoarising, #hermitpractice, #impermanence, #paradox, #science, #Zen

Good Song: Nobody Asks None of us have been here before.

Good Song: Nobody Asks

None of us have been here before.

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#advaya, #ahimsa, #clearseeing, #dependentcoarising, #empathy, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #monsters, #music, #PeterMayer, #poem, #video, #Zen

Good Song: Nobody Asks Here's insight we can use. In this short meditation, Rusty Ring favourite Peter Mayer sums up the lesson we all should have learned long ago, but that many – perhaps the majority – of us are still sulking over. Candid elaboration on the Zen notion of dependent co-arising, as applied to the human condition (a subordinate form I prefer to call co-dependent arising), the whole track consists of little more than Peter's own voice and guitar, enhanced here and there with a ghostly violin at the edges. It all adds up to power that commands attention, and a sedate simplicity our sort esteem. Another cut from Peter's excellent album Heaven Below. I've got this on frequent rotation these days, as I absorb demands to take arms against successive waves of faceless, vaguely defined offenders. Give it a click; see if it doesn't help to keep you on-task as well. _NOBODY ASKS_ by Peter Mayer Nobody asks to be born They just show up one day at life’s door Saying here I am world I’m a boy, I’m a girl I'm rich, I am sick, I am poor Nobody asks to be born No one is given a say They’re just thrown straight into the fray The bell rings at ringside And someone yells fight Some just end up on the floor Nobody asks to be born And no one’s assured Of a grade on the curve Or a friend they can trust Or a house where they’re loved And no life includes A book of how-to Because nobody has lived it before So to all the living be kind Bless the saint and the sinner alike And when babies arrive With their unholy cries Don’t be surprised by their scorn Nobody asks to be born

Good Song: Nobody Asks

None of us have been here before.

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#advaya, #ahimsa, #clearseeing, #dependentcoarising, #empathy, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #monsters, #music, #PeterMayer, #poem, #video, #Zen

Good Song: Nobody Asks None of us have been here before.

Good Song: Nobody Asks

None of us have been here before.

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#advaya, #ahimsa, #clearseeing, #dependentcoarising, #empathy, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #monsters, #music, #PeterMayer, #poem, #video, #Zen

Good Song: Nobody Asks Here's insight we can use. In this short meditation, Rusty Ring favourite Peter Mayer sums up the lesson we all should have learned long ago, but that many – perhaps the majority – of us are still sulking over. Candid elaboration on the Zen notion of dependent co-arising, as applied to the human condition (a subordinate form I prefer to call co-dependent arising), the whole track consists of little more than Peter's own voice and guitar, enhanced here and there with a ghostly violin at the edges. It all adds up to power that commands attention, and a sedate simplicity our sort esteem. Another cut from Peter's excellent album Heaven Below. I've got this on frequent rotation these days, as I absorb demands to take arms against successive waves of faceless, vaguely defined offenders. Give it a click; see if it doesn't help to keep you on-task as well. _NOBODY ASKS_ by Peter Mayer Nobody asks to be born They just show up one day at life’s door Saying here I am world I’m a boy, I’m a girl I'm rich, I am sick, I am poor Nobody asks to be born No one is given a say They’re just thrown straight into the fray The bell rings at ringside And someone yells fight Some just end up on the floor Nobody asks to be born And no one’s assured Of a grade on the curve Or a friend they can trust Or a house where they’re loved And no life includes A book of how-to Because nobody has lived it before So to all the living be kind Bless the saint and the sinner alike And when babies arrive With their unholy cries Don’t be surprised by their scorn Nobody asks to be born

Good Song: Nobody Asks

None of us have been here before.

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#advaya, #ahimsa, #clearseeing, #dependentcoarising, #empathy, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #monsters, #music, #PeterMayer, #poem, #video, #Zen

Hero Practice Your heroes need a hero.

Hero Practice

Your heroes need a hero.

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#advaya, #compassion, #dependentcoarising, #forgiveness, #hermitpractice, #mindfulness, #poem, #Zen

Hero Practice Your heroes need a hero.

Hero Practice

Your heroes need a hero.

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#advaya, #compassion, #dependentcoarising, #forgiveness, #hermitpractice, #mindfulness, #poem, #Zen

Street Level Zen: Effect Cause may be the least of your problems.

Street Level Zen: Effect

Cause may be the least of your problems.

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#climatedisruption, #dependentcoarising, #karma, #StreetLevelZen, #Zen

Street Level Zen: Effect Cause may be the least of your problems.

Street Level Zen: Effect

Cause may be the least of your problems.

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#climatedisruption, #dependentcoarising, #karma, #StreetLevelZen, #Zen

Street Level Zen: All Things Made of Parts A message from the Buddha.

Street Level Zen: All Things Made of Parts

A message from the Buddha.

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#Buddha, #dependentcoarising, #StreetLevelZen, #Zen