The Burning Hand Beat
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Sapientia in plateis clamitat [Wisdom cries out in the marketplace]
Refueling a contemplative, curious, creative, and compassionate counterculture
where men are nonviolent, women are free, and everyone is wanted.
Edited by Robert Daniel Smith, Poet, Catholic Worker, Dharma Bum,
and Broken-Vase Taoist
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!
Love one another as I have loved you!
I was hungry and you fed me.
-- Jesus, Still the Little Lost Boy of Every Heart
"Come to my home. I will make tea. Noodles. We can talk poetry. -- Tsung Tsai "Ancestor Wisdom"
Viewspaper
Sapientia in plateis clamitat [Wisdom cries out in the marketplace]
Refueling a contemplative, curious, creative, and compassionate counterculture
where men are nonviolent, women are free, and everyone is wanted.
Edited by Robert Daniel Smith, Poet, Catholic Worker, Dharma Bum,
and Broken-Vase Taoist
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!
Love one another as I have loved you!
I was hungry and you fed me.
-- Jesus, Still the Little Lost Boy of Every Heart
"Come to my home. I will make tea. Noodles. We can talk poetry. -- Tsung Tsai "Ancestor Wisdom"
Wild Thought Fueling Station:
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!
-- Jesus
Poetry is the heart of the world. -- Tsung Tsai
Mystery and reality emerge from the same source. -- Lao Tzu
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- St. John Chrysostom
As we grow in consciousness, there will be more compassion and
more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions,
between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the
separateness. -- Ram Dass
In the ultimate reality, the whole is present in every part
and every part participates in the being of the whole.
-- Fr. Bede Griffiths
Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.
-- George Fox
We are Earthseed
The life that perceives itself
Changing.
-- Octavia Butler
If you want to become whole, first let yourself become broken.
-- Lao Tzu
(hence, "broken-vase taoist")
Belief initiates and guides action -- Or it does nothing.
-- Octavia Butler
Beat doesn't mean tired, or bushed, so much as it means beato, the Italian
for beatific: to be in a state of beatitude, like St. Francis, trying to love all
life, trying to be utterly sincere with everyone, practicing endurance,
kindness, cultivating joy of heart... What are you searching for? they asked
me. I answered that I was waiting for God to show his face.
-- Jack Kerouac
All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. -- Henry Miller
Embrace simplicity.
Put others first.
Desire little.
-- Lao Tzu
Beat: "Kerouac (in various interviews and lectures) was trying to indicate
the correct sense of the word by pointing out its connection to words like
'beatitude' and 'beatific' -- the necessary beatness or darkness that preceeds
opening up to light, egolessness, giving room for religious illumination."
-- Allen Ginsberg
Beat literature sings against cynicism, apathy, injustice, deception, compromise,
racism, consumerism, war, evils and cons of all kinds. -- Anne Waldman
Stop demonizing pleasure... love up on each other...
-- adrienne maree brown
THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST
THE IMAGINATION
-- Diane di Prima
The greatest challenge of the day is:
how to bring about a revolution of heart,
a revolution that has to start with each one of us.
-- Dorothy Day, Saint of the Gutter Beautiful
The Tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao.
-- Lao Tzu
The cosmos is an infinite and eternal intelligence... The ultimate purpose
of human existence is to consciously foster and further the transmission of the
unifying, embracing, and all-encompassing intelligence of the cosmos into the
universe. -- Ervin Laszlo
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!
-- Jesus
On the uneven floor
we all lie down in layers,
a hologram of lovers...
-- Hettie Jones
you are beautiful / you are beautiful
you are a hundred times beautiful...
-- Lenore Kandel
God is voluptuous and delicious! -- Meister Eckhart
Make love. Take a bath. Make love again. -- Frida Kahlo
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist,
every minute a chance to save the world.
-- Dolores Huerta, UFW Organizer
There's a crack in everything... that's how the light gets in...
-- Leonard Cohen
I'm continually astonished that people really don't love each other.
How can they do it?
-- Jack Kerouac
Our work today is evidence of the unfinished status of planetary
struggles for equality, justice and freedom.
-- Angela V. Davis
The philosophy of Tao embodies a cosmology rooted in that most primal and
wondrous presence: earth's mysterious generative force... this venerable
generative force appears most explicitly in Lao Tzu's recurring references to the
female principle, such as "mother of all beneath heaven," "nurturing mother,"
"valley spirit," "dark female-enigma." -- David Hinton
We are clusters of vibration in-formed by the intelligence of the cosmos.
-- Ervin Laszlo
Every day: Chop Wood, Carry Water
-- Chinese Taoist Sage
Come to my home. I will make tea. Noodles. We can talk poetry. -- Tsung Tsai
Our power is in our soils. They sustain our every need. They are the starting
place when we return to the land with a seed in hand.
-- Poppy Okotcha
And then I ate hot bread. -- Gertrude Stein
God is Alive, Magic is Afoot. -- Leonard Cohen
I am your Mother. -- Our Lady of Guadalupe
Nothing Immortal
There is nothing immortal
about these bones
that I wear under my skin
but the wandering clouds
above
ah as they dance through
the blue
surely they wear immortality
as the skin of the Tao
Simple Way-Ultimate Way
The kingdom of heaven within you
is the bare-naked admission
of no-thing out-side
but all-things jumping
through possibility
into here...
then returning
into there...
neither of which
is different or separate
from the other
always Mother
always birthing
always celebrating
always transforming
this is Simple Way
and
Is is the always-rising
from the empty-belly of Not
this is Ultimate Way
now-only
Wandering Cloud, Empty Mind
Wandering cloud empty mind
Counting trees
If Li Po drops by later today
I'll show him my winter-naked
Apple trees
Waiting for their spring-bloom
I'll ask him if he would like
A cup of tea
And a conversation on poetry
I know that I will also
Ask him to meet my wife
Later and stay for dinner
And who knows perhaps
He will
But for now I'll walk the dogs
-- Robert Daniel Smith
Creation was fashioned to be adorned, to be showered, to be gifted with the love of the Creator. The entire world has been embraced by this kiss. Limitless love, from the depths to the stars, flooding all, loving all. It is the royal kiss of peace. God hugs you. You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God. -- St. Hildegard of Bingen
Imagine Paradise, Practice Beauty
We are put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.
-- William Blake
We were created by Love, for Love, to become Love. -- Simone Weil
Suppose it never, ever comes true, and there is no paradise... well, I'll still go on preaching. And yet how simple a matter it is: in one day, in one hour it could all be brought about at once! The chief thing is to love others as oneself, that's the main thing, and that's it -- absolutely nothing more is necessary: you would immediately discover how to bring it about. -- Dostoevsky
I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life. -- Zoe Saldana
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
-- Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
Dissolving into the Primordial Ecstasy:
Into the breath,
Into the garden,
Into the water,
Into the silence,
Into the music:
Everything fits exceedingly well...
-- Robert Daniel Smith
(from The Jewel In The Lotus)
I am different from ordinary people.
I nurse from the Great Mother's breasts.
-- Lao Tzu
We are put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.
-- William Blake
We were created by Love, for Love, to become Love. -- Simone Weil
Suppose it never, ever comes true, and there is no paradise... well, I'll still go on preaching. And yet how simple a matter it is: in one day, in one hour it could all be brought about at once! The chief thing is to love others as oneself, that's the main thing, and that's it -- absolutely nothing more is necessary: you would immediately discover how to bring it about. -- Dostoevsky
I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life. -- Zoe Saldana
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
-- Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
Dissolving into the Primordial Ecstasy:
Into the breath,
Into the garden,
Into the water,
Into the silence,
Into the music:
Everything fits exceedingly well...
-- Robert Daniel Smith
(from The Jewel In The Lotus)
I am different from ordinary people.
I nurse from the Great Mother's breasts.
-- Lao Tzu