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The woman in the ordinary
The woman in the ordinary pudgy downcast girl
is crouching with eyes and muscles clenched.
Round and pebble smooth she effaces herself
under ripples of conversation and debate.
The woman in the block of ivory soap
has massive thighs that neigh,
great breasts that blare and strong arms that trumpet.
The woman of the golden fleece
laughs uproariously from the belly
inside the girl who imitates
a Christmas card virgin with glued hands,
who fishes for herself in other’s eyes,
who stoops and creeps to make herself smaller.
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
compounded of acid and sweet like a pineapple,
like a handgrenade set to explode,
like goldenrod ready to bloom.
- Marge Piercy
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One of the most revered zen masters, Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481), mocked the rules of monasteries and their extremes of self-denial.He claimed foebidding sex to attain enlightenment made no sense. Rather, his philosophy of “red thread zen,” sex deepened the experience of enlightenment.
In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized of physics, time and even ourselves. Einstein had spent many hours wondering how time and space was experienced under different conditions. With this in mind, writer Alan Lightman wrote the science fiction novel Einstein’s Dreams that asks us to think about how our perception of time influences the way we live.
Set in 1905, Bern, Switzerland, Einstein is found hunched over his patent office desk, exhausted after long hours of calculations into the early morning. We are then taken into the mind of Einstein as he dreams a series of ‘what if’ scenarios.
what if we could learn from the Kabbalistic view oftime that has held Judaism together in exile and inspired the Dalai Lama to interview Rabbi’s to navagate the future of the tibetan people.
