tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post3607627484533507832..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: Zero Sumchristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-58901930235669718622009-10-23T20:08:42.833-07:002009-10-23T20:08:42.833-07:00Love right back at you, dear Christopher. :) Yes, ...Love right back at you, dear Christopher. :) Yes, we must have both; balance, but not in an equal, stable, static sort of way. There's more of a swaying between the two, like trees rocking in the wind.RachelWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18225401230724459199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-41386770941644813522009-10-23T19:25:05.637-07:002009-10-23T19:25:05.637-07:00Well, Rachel, some of the time it has to be. No o...Well, Rachel, some of the time it has to be. No one is exempt. We are all yin, yang. Things tend to be inclusive rather than exclusive. As per the next post, we like to discriminate, to exclude rather than include. It's neater, less confusing. It is also less real. You have to have exclusions. You also have to have inclusion. Inhale, exhale. You can't make babies without the thrust but without receiving there is no womb. You can't make poems without thrust, but without soul there is no poetry. I love you, girl, glad you have yang in you.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-50265865881046543122009-10-23T19:11:14.914-07:002009-10-23T19:11:14.914-07:00To curl inward is yin. Yes, it may be your nature....To curl inward is yin. Yes, it may be your nature.RachelWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18225401230724459199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-92175459091133865852009-10-23T16:21:18.119-07:002009-10-23T16:21:18.119-07:00Dancing with you is one of the highlights of my da...Dancing with you is one of the highlights of my day,lovely man. <br /><br />xxxMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816138640432897870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-11727510155563870632009-10-23T10:51:33.904-07:002009-10-23T10:51:33.904-07:00TB, keep learning, one day at a time...
W&W, ...TB, keep learning, one day at a time...<br /><br />W&W, thank you for your eyes.<br /><br />human being, I am happy to know you are out and about. Thank you for your link and your enthusiasm. I hope your gate can stay open, your doors and windows too.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-71087193088828186542009-10-23T09:38:45.672-07:002009-10-23T09:38:45.672-07:00fabulous!
both the discussion and the poem...
lov...fabulous!<br />both the discussion and the poem...<br /><br />loved that image of love piercing our being and changing us into a kind of musical instrument... whistling with the winds of life...<br /><br />wow! kind of Rumi style...<br /><br />the images you create are always great... touch deep...<br /><br />and i think no matter what happens to the relationship, we are always the winner... as we are not the same person we were before... we are changed... more experienced... more human... (though more suffering)... so when the lovers are separated, the sum cannot be zero...<br /><br /><a href="http://dearteachercrow.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-does-not-equal-one.html" rel="nofollow">one plus one minus one is...</a><br /><br /><br /><br />"A zero sum game cannot happen in infinite surroundings."<br /><br />YES!<br />how beautifully you've summed it up!<br /><br /><br />peace and love to you dear friendhuman beinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09232419187783429903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-229144016206306942009-10-23T09:01:14.374-07:002009-10-23T09:01:14.374-07:00I loved this poem Christopher and the visions it b...I loved this poem Christopher and the visions it brought to mind. It was very optical for me. All the curling and roundness....Wine and Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778785233226804217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-89402762967871254542009-10-23T08:41:44.090-07:002009-10-23T08:41:44.090-07:00In my experience, a social trap is something I hav...In my experience, a social trap is something I have to learn from so I do not lose again and again.CiCihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615265608675467505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-12118589612885776082009-10-23T03:46:33.704-07:002009-10-23T03:46:33.704-07:00Oh, Michelle, yes. And yes.
There is no way to a...Oh, Michelle, yes. And yes.<br /><br />There is no way to avoid the cost of things. There are occasionally the choices we can decide between, which cost shall I choose this time. To maximize this freedom to choose reveals character and so what it means to be human. Nowhere more than in how we love do we see this.<br /><br />I am very pleased you are dancing with me here.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-3946911059347775542009-10-23T01:51:22.514-07:002009-10-23T01:51:22.514-07:00Detachment saves my soul, and has saved my life. I...Detachment saves my soul, and has saved my life. It has also wasted a lot of my time. <br /><br />This is where you took me:<br /><br />I curl inward <br />I can't touch my toes<br />no one can touch me<br /><br />I observe,<br />learning becomes<br />inevitable<br /><br />I live there<br />in the holes,<br />full of you<br /><br />empty<br /><br />xxxMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816138640432897870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-40546454121447671772009-10-22T21:57:00.282-07:002009-10-22T21:57:00.282-07:00If the finite realm that we know is supported from...If the finite realm that we know is supported from an infinite realm we cannot know in ordinary ways, then zero sum is a shallow appearance of something different and deeper. That is the perennial spiritual claim. This claim transforms the negative and also the positive into another category of experience.<br /><br />This is one reason why the spiritual dimensions of human experience are critical and our acceptance or rejection of them builds very different views of the cosmos.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-80223473080647272412009-10-22T21:48:26.071-07:002009-10-22T21:48:26.071-07:00Morose thoughts, and sometimes it seems like life ...Morose thoughts, and sometimes it seems like life itself can be a zero sum game. But you don't see it until you reach the finish, so maybe it's better to accrue all the positive bits while you're in it? Whether it's love, or the world, or whatever...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com