The guru bead

I started making malas. A mala is a necklace, consisting of 108 beads, some knotted thread, a guru bead and a tassel. It is used for meditation, or prayer. The reason we need such objects is that we are forgetful about essential realities. Every part of the item has a symbolic, or even mnemotechnic significance. …

The only path forward

There is that intellectual disease, it`s like a division of labor idea. That you can just think and analyze and write, that you can stay with your intellectual labor. A question gives birth to another question. Certainty begets uncertainty on its border. The afternoon is lazily dragging on. You could just go on indefinitely. The …

Divide and understand

The power of reason is often overestimated. It is nice to appear clever, in real life there are no prizes handed out to people for being smart, though. Also people often keep their distance from cleverness, because it can lead to a nasty case of heightened expectations. What reason clearly can do though, where it …

Dark Samovar

Contacts of geological units, significant faults. Water seeps slowly through the aquifers, deep soaked underground seas of sand or gravel, permeable rock. Sedimentary basins with lignite deposits, tertiary and quaternary volcanism. Mineral springs, seismic swarms. Moffetts. Sedimentary rock, the ooids, the aragonite naturally occurring in all mollusk shells. Magma rising to the surface from the …

Threading a needle

So, I am sitting at a table, threading a needle, right? Don't laugh, my wife is a modern feminist woman, so I have had to learn to do these things for myself. I do not mind. I believe that every influence that makes me more competent – wouldn't it be plain ungratefulness to complain? The …

Limits of Humor

I think that the horizon of our life is delineated by what we are no longer able to laugh at. And I think that there are three persons that are difficult to make fun of. The person that pays youThe person that lies with youThe person that saves your soul I wonder – if you …

Wishful thinking

Thoughtful wishing is just as dangerous as wishful thinking. Do that and the devil will pick you up like a ripe apple – lifting just a little bit and twisting.

To get good

There is only one way how to get good. You have to deliberately and intentionally place yourself in space that will put specific demands on you. There is the talent and hard work dichotomy, of course, but the simple truth about humans is that if you do not live in dire need to get good, …

A poem for Jana Orlová

In autumn last year, I have written a poem to a girl. And it is a very special kind of girl. Her name is Jana Orlová, she is a performance artist. Here are her pages:http://www.janaorlova.cz/en I got acquainted with her through my wife. They have one of those kinds of a relationships, that don't come …

Meta-modernism – its jiggles and its wiggles

In the previous post on meta-modernism that dealt more with the sociology and ground reality of MM, I promised to take a look at its actual ideas. To get picture for yourself, read here: http://www.metamodernism.org I summon the noble and great spirit of Richard P. Feynman to assist me here: My father was always interested …