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  • 240612

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    Paano ba lumaya? Iyon ba ang maginhawang pagbitaw sa kadena ng oras na layaw nang sa munting sandali makapagtagpuan itong mga kamay naman natin? Paano ba lumaya? Iyon ba ang malalim na paghinga palalim sa iyong mababait na mga mata pahingang sa puntong ito wala mang ibang inaalala kundi itong ating pagsasama? Ano ba ang…

  • In Attention

    What goes on in one’s mind when one is engaged in a task? Lately, I have been playing with the idea of “focus” as a similar phenomenon to hunger. Sometimes a lack of appetite is not a concern—one may simply not be hungry; likewise, a lack of singular attention may be an indication of a…

  • What does it mean for [a] life to be “worth living”?

    I have been reading about Socrates and have finally come to the texts Crito and Apology. In the latter, Socrates utters the line “The unexamined life is not worth living,” which has always made me wonder. It is a popular line, so much so that it seems as though its meaning should be straightforward, yet…

  • Spotlight, 1

    And when all of that is said and done— When all of what? That, this whole thing with our being human beings— You mean, how we’ve got ends and beginnings? Yes, but more than that: How right here, in the middle this middle section where things are moving around it but not through it not…

  • Some essay [Walking with Christ]

    Some essay [Walking with Christ]

    I think I may have been looking at the earlier question the wrong way, focusing on “the limits” of Jesus and how I could ever be able to cope with that. The keyword could instead be will. What do I will? What am I willing to do?

  • Kay Sarap Magmahal

    Kay sarap palang magmahalat namnamin ang lamig ng hanginsa mga gabing maliwanag ang buwanat matingkad ang mga anino natin. Kay sarap palang magmahalat damdamin ang mga minutong ‘di nagtatagalYaóng tila usok na initat mala-habambuhay na pagpikit. Kay sarap palang magmahalat pakinggan ang mga salitang ‘di masabi-sabimusikang pampakalmaat nanggaling sa nanginginig na mga labi. Kay sarap…

  • Finding Chai and Time Again

    Finding Chai and Time Again

    I once professed a hatred towards anything that is not plain black coffee but I find myself at this moment absolutely in love with every sip of this drink. It is not the best sort of chai; there is only enough spice for it to be called a chai but I know I have had…

  • On Defining Terms

    The World is full of inhibitions I cannot write the world I see for it cannot be true. My vision is fractured; it is nothing but a piece of glass—nothing is no more. Nothing is no longer natural—to be nothing is sinful here in the World that deceives the truth stares at me observer vis-à-vis…

  • Notes on 道德經 (Dào Dé Jīng), chapter 36

    To shrinkFirst stretch.To be softFirst be hard.To destroyFirst raise up.To stealFirst give away.This is the subtle light.Soft and gentlePrecede hard and strong.Never take a fishfrom its deep.Never displaythe sharp weaponsof a Nation. Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Translated by John Minford. 2021. This chapter seems to be composed of three parts:…

  • M.M.

    She sees her hand and takes it but it slips through, it vanishes in the air; it is gone yet it is there: untouchable, immaterial. Neither does her smile exist—it has no shine the lights behind her eyes, are nothing and she wonders: where had It gone? Has It always Not Been There? The many…