As you may know, Dean is in need of a heart transplant.
Over the past 10 or 15 years, Dean has lived with a degenerative heart condition--congestive heart failure due to idiopathic hypotropic cardiomyopathy. After periods of more-or-less remission, in which his heart was stabilized and improved with the help of medications, the function of his heart has worsened. Now, radically.
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a video by D.J. Dolack of the recent benefit reading for dean Young at the National Arts Club in Manhattan.
Readers include Robert N. Casper, Joe Di Prisco, Matthea Harvey, Edward Hirsch, Mary Karr, Matthew Rohrer, Gerald Stern and Dara Wier.
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...and Dean Young on the telephone.
To make an online donation, please visit Dean Young's pageat the National Foundation for Transplants.
Dionysius the Areopagite called Pseudo - to differentiate him from the Dionysius mentioned by Paul in Acts. He lived in the 6th Century and has had a profound impact on Christian mystics.
Daydreaming - not the activity of having thoughts, but allowing one's attention to get lost in them - is an obstacle to presence, an obstacle to love which exists only in presence, an obstacle to our embrace of the fullness of life, and to contemplative practices in all traditions..
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression falls away. We rest in the night.
verbalization, no choice, no restraint or direction.
When the body is completely relaxed, have you noticed the silence that comes into being?
That requires a great deal of investigation, because our
minds are never still but endlessly chattering and therefore divided.
We divide living into fragments.
Can all this fragmentation come to an end?
Knowing that thought is responsible for this fragmentation, we ask: `Can thought be completely silent yet respond when it is necessary, without violence, objectively, sanely, rationally - still let this silence pervade?'
That is the only way: to find for oneself this quality of the mind that has no fragments, that is not broken up as the `you' and the `me'.
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~ J. Krishnamurti from a public talk in Saanen on July 28th 1970 .
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