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in reply to: Hilarie's Response: Rethinking Nirvana #549

Hilarie: What’s interesting to me here is the distinction made in yogic thinking/philosophy about the ‘lower body’ and the ‘higher mind.’ Gene would say that here, too, the thinking is a bit off in making these hierarchical. In his philosophy, they are all together and one implies the other….into occurring….and back into implying as we move thru the processes of living.

Sean: Fascinating to me to read your interpretation of what was both present in the early work and what was implicit. “Wise” — a lovely compliment. 🙂

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in reply to: Nolan's Response #548

Nolan: I love your bringing in the concept of ‘answerability’ — much like Bahktin’s ‘response-ability’ — the call to answer or respond to the other is the basis of a dialogic pedagogy and a dialogic understanding of the world.

Sean: “Meshing inward looking focus of process with outward lens of rhetoric” Yes. How apt.

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in reply to: Ryan's Response #540

Your story and poem are a wonderful example of recursiveness in reading, writing and viewing — all the way through. You keep going back and going back in order to go forward. Just great. And honest.

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in reply to: Shona's Response to "Understanding Composing" #539

Gene would feel right at home with your notion of circling back and the natural rhythms of nature: “respiration, cardiac function, sunrise and sunset.”
I also love your way of seeing Gene’s “whole body aesthetics” as an antidote to or an answer to the separation of mind and body in western intellectual thought and mindful somatic practice.

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