Author Archives: Richard Q

A human being-question chasing after both God and nothingness. The internet is a disaster, but our starlessness might teach us something. I welcome our constant experimenting with ourselves with open arms, for ultimately they are attempts of life at living and growing in life. My dwelling is in Key West, while the dwellings of my loves are Indiana, New Mexico, Texas, Massachusetts and Arizona. These spaces are nothing. Love abides and love embraces.

Let’s Face It

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. –Cormac McCarthyMore

Alientology

What I want to know is which will survive – Inua Ellams, The Actual, Fuck / Our FutureMore

A Note on (Dogen’s) Living-Dying

Dogen refused to consider life and death as separate from one another or as engaged in any type of warfare.  In other words, he would not have been sympathetic with there being within the human eros, a drive to life and ever more life, and thanatos, a death-drive.  This psychological picture, no matter how much…More

Just what is shared

Just what is shared?  Just because I share a perspective with so many things, does not mean I rest content with understanding these things, or anything else.  Sharing can give rise to the utmost confusion, and is not a bed on which to rest and call the rest of our investigations quits.  I share a…More

Impersonal Love

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise. –NagarjunaMore