Tag: writing prompts
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mushin || day 182: flow 流動
river me — tenebrous spinning pools under hazelnut trees & salmon slipping upstream This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because they are Zen […]
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mushin || day 181: axle 車軸
spinning axis worlds and worlds beyond the begin seeing again cycles upon cycles return This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because they are […]
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mushin || day 180: force 勢力
some of us cannot be forced into the framework others value so highly it is said some of us can school stone in being stubborn careful, now false preacher man… This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often […]
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mushin || day 179: war 戦争
culture wars: so many bodies littering every avenue no peace on the horizon what a senseless waste This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely […]
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mushin || day 178: childhood 幼年
trying to polish fractured jade to unblemished crystal wishing I might see as a child again This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because […]
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mushin || day 177: unfortunate 不運な
years lost to distraction but wisdom gained not wasted just a meandering path This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because they are Zen […]
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mushin || day 176: cultivation 栽培
building a bridge across the void to cultivate branches left abandoned This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because they are Zen and Tao […]
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mushin || day 175: diversity 多様
let the boxes rot– quit obsessing about exactly defining This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because they are Zen and Tao themes for […]
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mushin || day 174: worship 崇拝
listen to mycelium: messages passed through from mouths of gods This series of writing explorations that I call mushin are an attempt to grasp the concept of mushin no shin (mind without mind, 無心の心, often shortened to mushin, or “no-mind”). I am using prompts from 365 Tao, largely because they are Zen and Tao themes […]
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mushin no shin explanation
Well, I guess I’ll try this mushin thing on for size then. Below is a grid of the key topics as presented by Deng Ming-Dao in his book 365 Tao: Daily Meditations. You can read the book, which includes his suggestions for meditation on each of the key words and articulates some of his reasoning […]
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