Dharma Fiddling . . .

Saturday, April 5, 2025. It's the Satyr's day . . . A reminder of Winter is in store for TulseyTown today and tomorrow. Strong Northerlies and snow showers are in the forecasts as the temperatures fall overnight to near freezing.

Denial is my favorite defense mechanism. – Sam Keene

[ … if you haven't heard: Keen died on March 19, the day before my birthday this year, at the age of 93, while vacationing in Oahu, Hawaii ...]

Nero played the fiddle. Donnie fiddled on the golf course. Joyce Vance posted a summary on today's Contrarian: The Democracy Index.

Speaking of violins. China is preparing to play Trump as if he were one, though more complex and challenging perhaps than the Tchaikovsky. To some a thing of beauty. To others more twelve-tone than classically constructed. Stay tuned.

The greatest paradox in all of the Dharma
is that by doing absolutely nothing
the most extraordinary something
happens
all by itself. – Jamyang Tenphel

If you've wondered: Dharma def: the manifest nature of ultimate reality, differentiating only by way of the ongoing unfolding Creation. Apprehended only by direct experience.

[A]bsolute reality, our ultimate nature, is beyond the dualism of the thinking mind. Our true nature and the true nature of all things cannot be comprehended by the intellect, by the deluded trap of the dualistic mind. This is very difficult for us to accept, because we are addicted to our own thoughts and ideas, our intellect and their expression in ego identification. – Pema Düddul, Wisdom Beyond Reason, Shambhala, 3.10.25.