Month: April 2012
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Luke 20:18: United or scattered by the cornerstone
“…everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” (ESV) I’ve heard this exegeted a dozen ways, none of them convincing. What I haven’t heard are the two verbs contrasted. “Broken” and “crush” are two different words in the Greek. The…
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“Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing”, by Frederick Franck
For me, the value of the book is new, useful terms: “myo” = the mystery of each art-form (Japanese “Tat Twam Asi” = “That Art Thou” (from Upanishad) …. is this the long-lost source for Charles Williams’ “This also is Thou”? (The companion saying is “Neither is This Thou”.) Williams understands better than most the…
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Basho: “The one who writes three to five haiku…”
“…in his life is a haiku poet. Anyone who can write ten is a Master.” From: “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing”, by Frederick Franck
