A Discourse on the Heart
A couple of days ago I was visiting the campus of a just completed junior college not far from my home to see some people and as I was walking thru the buildings noticing all the brand new stuff that had been installed – furniture, windows, water fountains, stair railings, vending machines it struck me that every class room and office also had a shiny new computer. I started thinking about it – how ubiquitous computers have become in our lives. They’re basically another appliance like a refrigerator or a dishwasher, it occurred to me, but instead of keeping the milk cool or washing the dishes this appliance “thinks”.
It also occurred to me that the computer is essentially a model of our own brain – that we have invented it to enhance and enlarge what goes on inside our own noggin – we instruct it to remember, calculate, send and receive data and do a myriad of tasks quickly and accurately.
In fact the argument could be made that our mind too is a digital device. It operates by comparing and contrasting. There are always two things – life and death, yes and no, light and dark, day and night and of course all the shades of conditionality in between.
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Breath Within Breath
awesome sun
you cradle my brow
your soften my face
you breathe my name
majestic sky
you whisper my shape
you extend my vision
you guide my arms
you hug my heart
soft rain
you drench my skin
you fill my thirsty heart
you drown me in music
you moisten my parched smile
breath within breath
you guide me, ride me
inside me you slide me
along this majestic
tunnel of time
this tunnel of love
this surreal rainbow
that blesses my life
from above….