... 1845 journal W, Emerson initiates discussion of "parallelism" and, more familiarly, the "doctrine of symbols or Correspondence" informed by Emanuel Swedenborg, by writing the line that will return years later in "Art and Criticism": "All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric, or, I may say, of metonomy." Two years later, in the journal AB, Emerson analogizes " ... be "the organic destiny of the mind." Emerson's concept of transition links tropological with biological and geological change. In a late and unfinished natural history project, one clearly insp...

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... , p11) "Buddhadharma, the Teaching of Awakening, is the practice of sitting, walking, breathing, working and speaking with mindfulness and insight. As such Buddhadharma is not a religion, a dogma, a skill, a science, an art, or a philosophy. It is the presentation of our own natures. Zen is just this. - (Nishino, p34) True Zen consists of sitting quietly in the correct posture. It is not a special ... prescription drugs. "Meditation can transform the weak into the strong, the dull mind into the alert and aware mind, and an ordinary person into a dignified human being. It is an art that i...

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