A twisted path
29/06/2006 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaLots of tasty juicy radio morsels this week. Thinks we better post the linkies before they find their way to the Black Hole of Cyberia
Been reminiscing lately about a certain writer and his infernal books which Petunia always threatened with tossing in the bonfire. "They are corrupting and twisting your mind" she used to claim. And sometimes we think she just may well be right. But they gave us our first taste of Zen Buddhism and its distant relative Taoism. And the more we find out, the more we like it so could hardly pass up the opportunity of hearing the stuff straight from the source
The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.'
Spiritual Classics - China
(audio)
And then another tale about two creatures who have fascinated this serpent for a long long time. Two men who held mainstream religion in utter contempt and disdain but certainly had delusions of divine grandeur. Oh and the music at the end is truly spooky spine tinglin stuff
Michael Burleigh on political religion
(audio)
Been reminiscing lately about a certain writer and his infernal books which Petunia always threatened with tossing in the bonfire. "They are corrupting and twisting your mind" she used to claim. And sometimes we think she just may well be right. But they gave us our first taste of Zen Buddhism and its distant relative Taoism. And the more we find out, the more we like it so could hardly pass up the opportunity of hearing the stuff straight from the source
The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.'
Spiritual Classics - China
(audio)
And then another tale about two creatures who have fascinated this serpent for a long long time. Two men who held mainstream religion in utter contempt and disdain but certainly had delusions of divine grandeur. Oh and the music at the end is truly spooky spine tinglin stuff
Michael Burleigh on political religion
(audio)
