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Congrats! 👏😁 It is such a great satisfaction when one finds a book treasure. Hooray!

Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 27/09/2026

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We can't stop the flow. We can choose how we walk. Everything else is a blur.

Photo by Bastien Neves. A solitary figure ascends an escalator in a vast, modern interior. The person, dressed in dark clothing, is positioned at the center of the frame, walking upward while the surroundings blur into streaks of abstraction. The escalator cuts a sharp, vertical path through the soft distortion, creating a tunnel-like illusion of isolation and motion.

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

something of us must keep changing to remain the flame survives by renouncing each shape it becomes what is relinquished becomes its light #Vss365 #Renounce #inkMine #Survive #PoetrySky #Poetry #Photography #EastCoastKin my 📷

Sunset glows pink and gold above railway tracks stretching into the distance, framed by dark trees.

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An evolved human supports 4 interconnected realms: Spouse, parents, family, wouldn't abuse, neglect them; Friends & community, doesn't serve themselves first; Justice & equal rights; wouldn't misuse power over others; Nature, the way & its power, doesn't chase fool’s gold. #mind-in-nature

Image: a 4-circle Venn diagram template: bottom blue, left green, top pink, right yellow.
Source: www.vecteezy.com

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lovely this! And that is exactly how to pronounce it. 👏😁

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#Poetry #Painting #SouthAfrica "To pronounce Hluhluwe, you need loosely place the tip of your tongue to your top front teeth and blow while pronouncing the name..." - Brian Bilston 🎨 Richard Beyleveld

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Tristan Gooley on phototropism: “the directional growth of a plant that is influenced by light.” Branches on the lighter side (south in Ontario) grow out toward the light, those on the darker side grow vertical. Maple tree on our walk: south is on the right. #mind-in-nature 🖋️ The Natural Navigator

Photo: Under a clear blue sky, on a green front lawn stands a large maple tree whose leaves are turning red with the branches on the right side growing flatter while those on the left grow vertical.

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Agreed. All hail Coffee! ☕

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I love your optimism: if they turn this around, I'll buy you a beer. 🍻 Hail Harlan! 🙏

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's laugh or cry this season! 🎭🤦‍♂️😂 Cheers, Marie. 👋😁

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#Poetry #Art #Autumn My Master’s life is a hard one A fisherman’s life is tough I haven’t got my sea legs yet And I’m feeling rather rough - Gary Bunt 🎨 Gary Bunt

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I'm glad it resonated, Tashi. It's so cool that you see the correlates with your practice. All the mystics of the world say the same things. Cheers, G. 👋😁

Ron Hogan is an example of someone making the Dàoist teachings their own. Sections 1-3 are fine, but he doesn’t understand the ontological context of section 4 (as Chen explains), & presents it as ethical teaching, which works well as such anyway. 😁 #Daoism #DaoDeJing 51

DaoDeJing 51
Ron Hogan

Tao is the source of all living things,
and they are nourished
by Tao's power.
They are influenced
by the other living things around them,
and they are shaped
by their circumstances.

Everything respects Tao
and honors its power.
That's just the way it is.

Tao gives life to all things,
and its power watches out for them,
cares for them, helps them grow,
protects them, and comforts them.

Create something
without holding on to it.
Do the work
without expecting credit for it.
Lead people
without giving them orders.
That's the secret of the power of Tao.

Link:
https://terebess.hu/english/tao/ron.html#Kap51

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These concluding lines sum up the nature of Tao & its dark mystical Presence in the world as de: it gives birth without possession, acts without holding on to, & grows without lording over. Such a conception of the absolute is the complete opposite of the jealous God. DDJ 51, Ellen Chen, p. 176

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in the world of ten thousand beings. As the power inherent in each individual being determining its unfolding from within de corresponds roughly to the formal cause in Aristotle. 4. These 4 lines also appear in ch10 as ethical reflections. Here they depict the very nature of Dao itself. DDJ 51 Chen

DDJ 51, Ellen Chen p. 175: 1. Dao is the creative principle that gives birth. De means nature either as a universal power or the power inherent in each individual being. As a universal power de is the resident creativity in the natural world, the presence or providence of the non-appearing Dao...

Kirpal Singh @kirpalsingh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DaoDeJing, Pt 2: De ch 51/81 This chapter concerns the providential powers of Dao & de in the life cycle of every being, especially de as the ever-supporting & yet self-effacing presence in the world. Ellen Chen p. 175 TY for reading in early #Daoism with us. 🪷😁 Please expand the 2nd hidden post.

DaoDeJing 51
Ellen Chen

1. Dao gives birth,
De rears,
Things shape,
Circumstances complete.

2. Therefore the ten thousand things,
None do not respect Dao and treasure de.
Dao is respected,
De is treasured,
Not by decree,
But by spontaneity.

3. Therefore Dao gives birth,
De keeps, grows, nurtures, matures, ripens, covers and buries.

4. To give birth without possession,
To act without holding on to,
To grow without lording over,
This is called the dark de.

Link:
https://terebess.hu/english/tao/e-m-chen.html#Kap51

Derek Lin, tr. & comment:
https://terebess.hu/english/tao/DerekLin.html#Kap51

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Sisu, Himachal Pradesh, Himalayan people let their cattle wander around for fresh grass , herbs , flowers 🌸 🌿 to eat , in the evening they return to their respective houses. they're beautiful in the Himalayas as well 🐄🐄🐄 Short clip while ,i was crossing the road 🏔️ 🏔️ 🏔️ youtube.com/shorts/cD--7...

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Mauve @mauve76.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mon amour est une feuille morte On continue sur le collage numérique en 3 pièces

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Football day & my beloved #Packers can't lose. They already did on Thursday. We usually turn to beer & brats after a loss. Things are so bad we're turning to prayer. For the uninitiated, Bob Harlan 😇 was the architect of modern club success. Curly Lambeau 😇 founded the team. 🏈🧀🍺🌭🙏😂 🖋️ Seabassmtg 🫡

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By: Seabassing at Cheesehead TV
September 25, 2026

Hail, Harlan, full of competence,
Lambeau is with Thee.
Blessed art thou among Packer fans,
And blessed is the fruit of well-coached football.
Holy Harlan, Guardian of Titletown,
Pray for us cheeseheads.
Deliver us from organizational ineptitude,
And restore the glory of the Green and Gold.

Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TY, Luis! 👋😁 If there was an award for the most encouraging person on Bluesky, I would nominate you immediately. All the best, G.

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#Philosoohy #Painting #Autumn “The highest form of peace is having no desire to be seen, validated or understood by anyone.” — Epictetus 🎨 Andrew Wyeth

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life" - Pablo Neruda Lorraine Christie artwork

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Climb To The Clouds @climbtotheclouds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good morning. Happy Sunday. We are the creation of elements that are not our own, borrowed, for our time. We too create, its beauty in its impermanence. This experience is the reward of feeling. Have a beautiful day. #Stunday #imageandverse #acadia #photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #maine

A rock cairn I built with 7 rocks of various sizes on a drift wood log. Teal water and sky muted to look like a canvas.

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Andy Herman @andyhermannfl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I fully understand the choice between a colonoscopy & re-living Falcons/Packers isn't easy, but there's a ton to learn about what went wrong, what went well & which players stepped up despite the shit show. Check out my full grades & film review, today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8mK...

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Packers Week 3 Grades & Film Review!!!

YouTube video by Pack-A-Day Podcast

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Nighttime I am waiting for that day When my soul will be called away, And I'll join with the eagles upon high. - Gladys Darlene Browning 🎨 Laura Makebresku

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Mithra @mithraraven.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Mithra keeper of dawn your hands brim with the bright water of beginnings You pour light over the mountains every seed waiting for the warmth of first light The earth remembers your footsteps before it remembers the sun and every faithful heart opens like a flower awakening to the promise of dawn

Figure of Persian god Mithras, National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower Address, "The Chance for Peace," April 16, 1953 #phronesis 📸 cc in ALT

Image: Multi-coloured poster with 43 blocks of themes of The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): The Children’s Version
Source: https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/united-nations-convention-rights-child-childrens-version
Text: Dwight D. Eisenhower Address "The Chance for Peace"
Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
April 16, 1953

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Questions for a Sage: Thales of Miletus, c. 500 BCE What is difficult? To know oneself What is easy? To give advice to another What is pleasant? Success What is divine? That which has neither beginning nor end. The weirdest thing? An aged tyrant (As relevant as ever.) #phronesis

Photo: Close-up of Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine in Return of the Jedi (1983).
Source: By Lucasfilm - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38430548

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#Poetry #Painting #LateAfternoon An old weathered barn, one who has known many seasons, invites you to enter his past. And as you come in, an old barn can whisper true tales 🎨 Joseph Alleman

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😳 Nope. Stay safe, eh.

The lotus flowers gently dance in the wind by Bai Juyi - Classical Chinese Poetry

Bai Juyi, Tang dynasty poet, Song of Lotus Picking The lotus flowers gently dance in the wind, a skiff flies on the little pond. Encounter him, I lower my head, shyly smile. Into the water unwittingly my hairpin falls. The importance of hairpins! See at the link: www.cn-poetry.com/baijuyi-poem...

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Explore the English translation, original Chinese text, and deep cultural analysis of “The lotus flowers gently dance in the wind” (《采莲曲》), a classical poetry masterpiece by Bai Juyi.

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Most people do not take heed of the things they find nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they think they do. Heraclitus 500 BCE Fr 57 Intellectual humility is needed to grasp things: being open-minded curious realistic teachable. #phronesis #mind-in-nature cc ALT

17th c. oil painting: A man with long brown hair and a wide-brimmed black hat looks back at the painter holding a skull in his right hand with his left index finger pointing into the nose hole.
Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull, Michiel Sweerts.

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vegy🥕power🥕🐇 @vegypower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Missy: You woke me up for what? #Caturday? I wuz sleeping here! With no treat either? We'll sort this out later, my good man.

Photo: A B&W cat is lying on a grey & white blanket on a cream leather couch with her head turned back to the camera.

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#Caturday 🐱 ☕️ 🐱 #art by Molly Hahn for Buddha Doodles #BuddhaDoodles BuddhaDoodles.com

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We're on the precipice of the Seven Monkeys phase in the climate crisis. Grace Grothaus is a York U researcher working on wearable AQ sensors. Our house is learning to check the AQM on summer days. We'd be early adopters like we were with masks. #phronesis #mind-in-nature www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Photo: A close-up of a woman seated with a blue wearable AQM in her hands, a bit bigger than a phone. Source: Anand Ram/CBC.

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TY Luis! Can you believe we're at the weekend already? Tempus fugit. Enjoy yours as well, eh. 👋😁

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I think Ron Hogan's tr rocks. It also calls out later #Daoist immortality fixations. Founders of wisdom streams build sea kayaks & leave their natural harbours. Over the centuries followers lose the historical context & build cruise ships instead of kayaks. Context is crucial. #Daoism #DaoDeJing 50

DaoDeJing 50
Ron Hogan

People who look
for the secret of long life
wind up dead.

Their bodies are the focus of their lives
and the source of their death,
because they think a healthy body
is all there is to life.

Lao Tzu used to say
a man who truly understood life
could walk through the jungle
without fear
or across a battlefield
without armor, totally unarmed.
Wild animals and weapons couldn't kill him.

I know, I know:
what the hell does that mean?
"Well, he couldn't be killed,"
Lao Tzu said,
"because his body
wasn't where he kept his death."

Link:
https://terebess.hu/english/tao/ron.html#Kap50

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Death is therefore just the other side of life. Since life & death accompany & succeed each other, it is better not to worry about the matter. The point is not to dwell on either life or death, but to transcend both to the life of the one. Chen, p.173 #Daoism DDJ 50 Below her lovely words in full:

Death is a phenomenon from the individual’s viewpoint.
Cut off from the life of the round & standing alone,
an individual faces his opponents &
arrives at the place & time of his death.
However, in the round, which is the eternal life process,
productive, & embracing all Opposites, there is no death.
There is only intense life-producing activity.
A person who transcends his individuality,
identifying himself with the eternal life process that has no place of death,
also has no place of death.
Ellen Chen (1989, p.174)

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Ellen Chen (1989, p.173) What we have in this passage is the life of the round, constituted by this dynamic process of coming to be & ceasing to be. Life & death are opposites that alternate with each other; what has life pushes on toward death so that new life can come to be. #Daoism #DaoDeJing 50

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#DaoDeJing 50/81 1st stanza concerns ordinary mortals who die; 2nd describes those who are deathless. What is deathless is the unceasing life-producing activity. The person at one with this unceasing creativity is immortal. Chen p.173 TY for reading in early #Daoism. 🪷😁 Please expand the 2nd post.

DaoDeJing 50
Ellen Chen

1. From coming out to life to going back to death:
Those companions of life,
They are one-third;
Those companions of death,
They are one-third;
Those living but moving toward the place of death,
They are also one-third.
Why?
Because of the intense life-producing activity.

2. I have heard that one who knows how to nourish life,
On land meets no tigers or wild buffaloes,
In battle needs to wear no armors or weapons,
A wild buffalo has nowhere to butt its horns,
A tiger has nowhere to sink its claws,
A weapon has nowhere to enter its blade.
Why?
Because such a one has no place of death.

Link:
https://terebess.hu/english/tao/e-m-chen.html#Kap50

Derek Lin, tr. & comment:
https://terebess.hu/english/tao/DerekLin.html#Kap50

VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Dao is great! The Dao is late! The Dao is here for our delight! 💃🐲🐉🕺🥳 #DaoDeJing ch. 50 up next. The day got a away from me yesterday. 😁 📸 cc in ALT: dragon dance practice

Outside of an ancient round building in a mountain in China a group of dancers in red clothes practice a dragon dance.
Source: www.dfmyth.com

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The Harvest Moon is the full moon nearest the #AutumnEquinox. In 2026 it falls on 26 September. In Gaelic lore it was “Gealach an abachaidh”, the ripening moon, believed to ripen crops, and “Gealach bhuidhe nam broc”, the badgers’ yellow moon, when badgers gathered winter stores.

A three-part autumn collage. On the left, a vintage illustration of a European badger by Franz Murr (1887–1964), surrounded by a cream border. On the right, a glowing full moon in a golden sky above a field of ripe golden wheat.

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TY, Andy, watching now. Mike is amazing and you two work well together. GPG.