Translations of Nichiren are always going to be tendentious, and necessary to read with a grain of salt, with all of the weirdnessess of the various sects that want to “push poll” (to use a political term) their own idiosyncracies to the forefront of the translations. (For an example of the most embarrassing, slovenly, non-Buddhist, [...]
Sat, September 18 2004 » Religion/Logos » 1 Comment
Already fall is beginning to creep in. Leaves are turning. NBA training camp isn’t that far away. But I digress. I’m still working on my long poem. It’s up to 53 some pages now. Bit by bit. And the funny thing is, as I guess was to be expected if you really think about it, [...]
Fri, September 10 2004 » Poetry, Religion/Logos » 5 Comments
Abulafia
From Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291?): And vowel-points were set into the letters to demonstrate the vibration of pronunciation in their translation from the book to the mouth. Thus the vibrations are essentially the letters of the mouth, and accidentally, the letters in the book. And joined to this by necessity with the places of the various [...]
Tue, August 17 2004 » Religion/Logos » 1 Comment
For some bizarre reason I’ve been interested in Catholic saints again, in that Golden Corral, Old Country Buffet kind of way. St. Lucy – 12″ Italian Plaster, Catholic Saint Statue: “This is a beautiful Italian Plaster statue of Saint Lucy, who is the patron of eyes, eye diseases and salespersons.” However, they forgot glaziers, hemorraghes, [...]
Thu, August 5 2004 » Religion/Logos » 1 Comment
I should also add that Stephanie has a great post about fleeing a religious childhood. Maybe if I get my act together I can cobble some thoughts on my own flight from an extremely Catholic childhood and adolescence.
Fri, February 27 2004 » Religion/Logos » No Comments
Malleus Hereticorum What I think the religious right has been trying to do this last week, consciously or sub-, is to “shock and awe” those who disagree with them. To almost try to create both a numbness and an inevitability in the minds of its opponents; to soak the mass culture with blood cults and [...]
Fri, February 27 2004 » Religion/Logos » 1 Comment
