Pay Attention
Share Article A monk asked Yang-chi.
How to escape the clamor of the mind?
Read the ancient text.
What is the ancient text?
The moon is bright in space. The waves are calm on the ocean.
How does one read it?
Watch your step.
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Creative Hanging Out by Tran
Please put the blue sky on the white table. It is fragile and creased along the horizon.
Pay Attention.
There are:
People who want to control you
People who want to blame you
People who want to distract you
Samuel Beckett was very precise. He didn’t want theories or any level of intellectualization. He paid a lot of attention to the tone of voice and to the relationships among the characters. He cared a great deal about the silences and the pauses. It’s as beautiful as the chance encounter on an operating table of a sewing machine and an umbrella, the essence of surrealism.
Freedom is being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience, said David Foster Wallace.
DFW had the courage to express in absurd detail what it feels like to live, observe and experience life. He knew many humans lacked the sincerity and honesty to really voice their awareness. He gave us deep exquisite work and then checked out. He suffered from depression. Pale King.
Every feeling waits for its gesture. Gestures use people as their instruments, bearers and incarnations. Impressions exist in a distinct serene zone of imprecise calculation. Observations dance with empirical data structure. Art, symbols and metaphor.
Language is a virus, like C-19.
Blue dragonfly eyes create a lightning bolt. Flashes of brilliance in the DNA helix reveal spiritual and truth-value meaning in your play. The poetic inspiration rebels against science and math.
Dancing color spectrum
Jellyfish aqua laughter smells sweet fresh cut grass
Yellow butterfly voices perspiration’s inspiration
Transparent wave energies wash your interior/exterior dream
I love to doodle, said Zeynep. It’s my meditation. Everyone doodles their noodle while splashing in their life puddle.
Good travel writing is The Art of Creative Hanging Out, said Tran.
