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'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest (Guardian)
Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years ago
Speculating on whether the paintings had a sacred or other purpose, he said: “It’s interesting to see that many of these large animals appear surrounded by small men with their arms raised, almost worshipping these animals.” Observing that the imagery includes trees and hallucinogenic plants, he added: “For Amazonian people, non-humans like animals and plants have souls, and they communicate and engage with people in cooperative or hostile ways through the rituals and shamanic practices that we see depicted in the rock art.”
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Digging a Hole in the Ocean Floor - Zhuangzi - Chapter 7 - Illustration by CC Tsai
Full text Translated by Burton Watson
Chien Wu went to see the madman Chieh Yu. Chieh Yu said, "What was Chung Shih telling you the other day?" 4 Chien Wu said, "He told me that the ruler of men should devise his own principles, standards, ceremonies, and regulations, and then there will be no one who will fail to obey him and be transformed by them."
The madman Chieh Yu said, "This is bogus virtue! To try to govern the world like this is like trying to walk the ocean, to drill through a river, or to make a mosquito shoulder a mountain! When the sage governs, does he govern what is on the outside? He makes sure of himself first, and then he acts. He makes absolutely certain that things can do what they are supposed to do, that is all. The bird flies high in the sky where it can escape the danger of stringed arrows. The field mouse burrows deep down under the sacred hill where it won't have to worry about men digging and smoking it out. Have you got less sense than these two little creatures?"
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Helicopter pilot finds 'strange' monolith in remote part of Utah (The Guardian)
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3 Types & Levels of Tranquillity - Art by Anthony Cheung
Putting Effort... in the Mind
Be like Water My Friend...
Tai Chi Principles
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For qi to flow we need to relax.
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St. George Church next to Al-Tawhid Mosque in Aleppo, Syria (via)
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Book of the Month: The Art of Peace - by Morihei Ueshiba
