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In the garden this morning, I am looking where I always look. Blossoms stand ghostlike in abundant tree foliage. A dead leaf hangs captive in the frayed strands of a flag, flit-flapping. Undergrowth and overgrowth fill the day's holes with unknowing. I watch. New faces of color and light emerge. The more I look, the [...]

"...ce secret n'est que la présence intérieure, silencieuse, insondable et nue, qu'une attention toujours donnée aux mots (aux objets) nous dérobe..." Georges Bataille, L'expérience intérieure (Gallimard) ("...this secret is nothing but the inner presence, silent, unfathomable and naked, which is hidden from us by our constant attention to words (objects)...")

Have been off in the North Sea, on a windswept island, in an unending swirl of the 10,000 things, studying with my teacher's teacher and the extended Great Maha Sangha. Thus, my silence here. "There's no language that isn't the Dharma," Bodhidharma said in his Wake-Up Sermon.

"Immortel je suis et infini, et vous tous avec moi. Telle est la vie." Alberto Giacometti ("Immortal I am and infinite, and you all with me. Such is life.")

"...l'oeuvre de Giacometti communique la connaissance de la solitude de chaque être et de chaque chose, et que cette solitude est notre gloire la plus sûre." Jean Genet l'atelier d'alberto giacometti (L'Arbalète, 2007) ("...Giacometti's work communicates knowledge of the solitude of each being and thing, and knowledge that this solitude is our most certain glory.")