Food Glorifies God In Italy

We are planning our next adventure to Italy for September, which is always the highlight of our year, one that incorporates food. Being first generation Italian, one might think th…
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I watched my grandmother for years without knowing I was being taught.

The body absorbs what the mind hasn't named yet, it stores it quietly, for decades.

What did you absorb before you had words for it?

#mindfulness #familywisdom #yoga
#contemplative #embodiedlearning #slowwisdom
#grounded #yogalife #innerwisdom

New track: 035 Sigil

Bb Dorian b2 — the lowered 2nd degree sits a semitone above the root, creating a haunting gravitational pull. Like something familiar seen through warped glass.

Oboe + vibraphone dual leads. 74 BPM, 7/4 time.

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📀 https://archive.org/details/aeon-15-scales

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New track: 033 Quartz

C Ukrainian Dorian — the raised 4th creates an augmented 2nd between Eb and F#. Exotic tension within a minor framework.

Violin + vibraphone dual leads. 7/4 time, 74 BPM.

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🎵 Track 027: Fracture

B Locrian — the last unexplored standard mode. The diminished tonic triad means there's no stable home. Every arrival is a departure.

Violin + clarinet searching through instability. The b5 interval (B→F) is the crack everything falls through.

▶ https://files.catbox.moe/azn9j7.mp3
📀 https://archive.org/details/aeon-15-scales

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New track: Velvet (024)

A Dorian waltz in 3/4 time. Clarinet and vibraphone weave through eight sections — from whispered piano through soaring dual-lead climax, through silence, back to where it began.

72 BPM | 3:22 | A Dorian

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This is an extremely relevant guide for practicing #mindfulness of the four #elements

Whether you're familiar with the practice or not (and especially if you're not or at least skeptical about it), this is not a practice grounded in pseudoscientific ideas about the "true existence" of the four classical elements; this is an #experiential #contemplative #practice broken down into manageable feelable categories.

https://tricycle.org/magazine/4-elements-buddhist-meditation/?utm_campaign=02383468&utm_source=p3s4h3r3s

Tariki

It seems to me that we are not so much human beings as human becomings. And it doesn’t apply merely to humans: there are feline becomings and bovine becomings, cephalopod becomings and fungal becomings. It’s becomings all the way down.

To speak of a “being” implies an object, a static substance that acts and is acted upon; a thing embedded like a rock in a stream called time. But this isn’t what we are. Even our cells are replaced on a regular basis, some every few days; we change and evolve, each of us, throughout our lives, and we are different people in different eras of our life, very often with different interests and abilities. This applies perhaps more strongly to some people than to others, but by and large it is true: a person in later life is quite different than the “same person” in their teens, or as the parent of a young family.

Our thoughts too shift and flicker moment by moment, despite any effort we may make to concentrate on even one stream of them. Even the most elementary contemplative practice will show us this in the first few minutes!

But it isn’t just the ephemeral creatures of earth that are becoming, moment by moment and aeon by aeon. Our planet itself is changing and remoulding itself – if you doubt that you’ve never lived through an earthquake – and even our own lovely Milky Way is a finely balanced eddy of gas and dust and stars sailing 630 km/sec along the Hubble Flow.

Nothing is static. There are no objects, except by convention. All is change and becoming. As Spinoza saw, there is no substance but God (or Nature): everything – ourselves included – is merely a mode of that infinite becoming. The ten thousand things are no more than sparkles on the broad river of the Tao.

Literally, no thing is the ground of becoming.

So if this is how it is, what of our vaunted human will? The slipstream of a passing gnat disperses it. But becoming is movement, an ontological wind over the ocean of what is. There is no need to lean, brows knitted, on the imagined oars of the will. Sit still; the sail is raised of itself, and fills.