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Ordinary Prediction
If we organize ourselves, if we understand time management, we have to understand prediction. We consider what must be done, consider the likely outcomes, and consider the time involved. Then we set o… more →
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Ordinary Prediction
livingiching wrote 1 hour ago: If we organize ourselves, if we understand time management, we have to understand prediction. We con … more →
Classic Versus the Individual
livingiching wrote 10 hours ago: Hexagram 22 of the I Ching is Adornment. The trigrams show fire below a mountain. Might that just no … more →
Opportunities for Disaster
livingiching wrote 1 day ago: My mother told me she once counted at least thirteen times in the course of making a bowl when somet … more →
Glazing
livingiching wrote 1 day ago: Once a bowl has been fired, it’s called stoneware. A normal clay flowerpot is an example of ceramics … more →
Firing
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livingiching wrote 4 days ago: When I was a boy, I saw my mother blown off her feet by an exploding kiln. Being an artist was no ea … more →
The Foot of a Bowl
livingiching wrote 5 days ago: Look at many of the great bowls in the world—the Song dynasty bowl, the raku tea bowl, the porcelain … more →
Centering
livingiching wrote 6 days ago: There’s a lot of talk about centering, like it’s some mystical trick. Try throwing a pot. There’s no … more →
Throwing a Bowl
livingiching wrote 1 week ago: Making pottery, or in the potter’s terms, throwing pots on a wheel, happens to represent all eight t … more →
Pottery
livingiching wrote 1 week ago: My mother was a potter. I grew up in a ceramics studio, and learning how to throw pots was part of j … more →
The Violin
livingiching wrote 1 week ago: The violin happens to express the principles of the I Ching perfectly. Let’s take the bow, so often … more →
Opportunity
livingiching wrote 1 week ago: There are many kinds of opportunity in the world. There are the kind you make, as when you decide to … more →
Dao, the Impersonal
livingiching wrote 1 week ago: Dao is not god. People try to portray Dao as just a Chinese word for god. That is not so. For the Da … more →
Be Water
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livingiching wrote 1 week ago: Be water. Flow everywhere. Do not fear the precipice, for water plunges to the greatest depths and i … more →
A Grand Mufti, a Rabbi, an Archbishop, A Daoist Master and a Shinto Priest went into a bar...
ARC wrote 2 weeks ago: Prince Philip and Ban Ki-moon honour the EcoSikh action plan A Grand Mufti, a Rabbi, an Archbishop, … more →
Sickness is Learning
livingiching wrote 2 weeks ago: Sickness is learning. Medicine might help, but it’s rarely enough. Usually, the doctors do what they … more →
Breakthroughs
livingiching wrote 2 weeks ago: There’s not much use in practicing—whether it’s your job, your spiritual practice, art, music, writi … more →
The Dead Live On in Us
livingiching wrote 2 weeks ago: All I can do is record what I experience. One of those experiences is that the dead live on in us. E … more →
The Bell Curve
livingiching wrote 2 weeks ago: If every event is a bell curve, how does that tally with the traditional view of the I Ching? As it … more →
What Makes an Event?
livingiching wrote 2 weeks ago: We’re found of saying an event is a moment in time. Whether it’s a meeting, a journey, or a party, w … more →
