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ZEN STUFF INDEX

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9-11-01: Against the Darkness. Words, images, music for times of great distress.
Ahimsa (Non-violence). Douglas Milburn on how to avoid a bloodbath in the 21st century.
Askew. Rean Rhyne obscure little bit of doggerel about the perils of Zen.
At the Time of the Extinction of the Fire. Robert Watson. Lines for solstices.
Beauty Break. Escape from all these words. 7 pictures with music.
Beauty by the Dozen. Our first year's most beautiful graphics.
Beauty Spot: Adam's Peak (Sri Lanka), plus music by Corelli.
Bibliotherapy, Cinetherapy, Cybertherapy. Books & movies that make us laugh.
Big Bend National Park: The Basin. Pedro Bofecillos. Our guide to the park, in 3 words (well, maybe a few more than that).
The Blooming Grove Bronze Tablet.
Blue Book: August 21, 1988 - March 3, 1997. "Beware of planets with no sense of humor..." and 200-odd similar observations for the ages.
Blue Red. Three wee sentences to help with today's synamptic re-wiring. You're welcome.
Chinese Classical Landscape Paintings. With music.
The Chrome Series. Mixed media works by Kai Sonderling. Music by John Dowland.
Cole paintings. Thomas Cole, with music.
Confusing Entanglements. Words from the Hsin Hsin Ming (with midi).
Contrastingly. Artist Joey Ancaster re-thinks the yin-yang symbol.
The Cyber-puritan Manifesto. How to Change the 21st Century in 20 East Steps.
Desire. Douglas Milburn. Nineteen slightly provocative words.
Drone on the Range. Minimalist midi plus minimalist gif equals serenity.
Dualities. Images that are the opposite of Tylenol. Slideshow with midi (4:00).
Easter Surprise. An infinitely repeating little slideshow with midi.
Fenestration. Photo with midi (2:44).
The Fly-bottle and I. Douglas Milburn on words and beyond.
Grand Canyon Breaks. Arthur Varrick Ticklaw says it all in two words.
Les Heures du Mal. A book of hours for eras in distress.
The Great Hunger. The latest update from Chardo Blue Plains, staff mystic.
Headscratcher's Delight. Two wee sentences from the Hsin Hsin Ming. Slideshow with midi (0:57).
Hippie Glop? Just what the world needs: another printing of old 1960s optimism.
Home, Sweet Home. Harriet Lobdell's words of wisdom re religion, politics, science, etc.
HOPE. A slideshow with some flowers and some Scott Joplin.
How Far from Paradise? Ceci Lumley. Find out your present location re Heaven.
How's Your W.Q.? Didio Antis has come up with a test of your "Wisdom Quotient."
How to Yo-yo.
Humans R Us. Chardo Blue Plains at his beatitudinous best.
HUSH! Horticulturalist Izora Firelands's bit of admonitory free-verse.
The Hustling Vanities of Sentient Dust. Elisabeth Ney.
Iris Murdoch: Fragments of a Re-cognition. Douglas Milburn.
Island Revisited. Reppy Duart looks at Huxley's utopia again 40 years later.
Johnny Got What? Elinor Hoef reminds us of Dalton Trumbo's shocking war novel.
Koans for the 21st Century. Twelve, count 'em, twelve.
Koi Paraga? Chardo Blue Plains has suggestions for your metaphysical travel plans.
Magellan's Lesson. Anyone for the other shore?
The Magellan's Log Ego Altar.
The Magellan's Log Mind Diet.
Mantras Cheap. Create your own mantra.
Meditator. 250k-animated GIF as 21st-century role model.
The Metaphysical Stereopticon. Pedro Bofecillos. Five pairs of pictures for you Zen delight.
Meteoropticon. Chardo Blue Plains. New Age glop or deep wisdom?
Milburn's Law of Attention. 20 words, 1 comma, 2 periods.
Mirror Image. Cheki Boggus on the problem with theists.
Mnemonicae. 80 wee photos to help remember that which cannot be forgotten.
My Invisibilities Are Bigger Than Your Invisibilities
NCM & the Roots of Consciousness. Hinko Livernoix. Nature- Centered Meditation? Why not?
Novalis. Douglas Milburn. New translations of old ideas.
On Yoga. Douglas Milburn points at a finger pointing at the moon.
The Ox-herding Pictures. A bit of Zen art to whittle away the hours.
Paranoid's Delight: Interview with the Alien. Rean Rhyne.
PAX NOVUM. The peace symbol revised for the 21st century. Slideshow with midi (2:20).
Petrophilia. Found stones as art- and meditation-objects.
Pixels' Delight. Mystic Chardo Blue Plains's latest enigmatic report from the American Outback.
Pneumatics 101. Reppy Duart, D.D., unleashes a lot of hot air. Only thing is, he's serious.
Poster. Your very own printable Magellan's Log poster.
Practitioners. A few words to the wise concerning kultural kwiksand.
Praise. Words in denial thereof.
The Primrose Path Game. Find out how close to true happiness you are.
Qin: Jokes from the Chinese. Piongo Pisgah. Tasteless koans, parables, fables?
The Quiet Hour Revolution. Saramae Anahuac's modest proposal to grease some of the world's squeakier wheels.
readme.txt. Two lists of books: the standard European canon, and our suggested additions.
Reality Check No. 14,739.
Remembering.
Re: View. Saramae Anahuac has wrote a pome.
Rubaiyat Redux. Edward FitzGerald's effective, if highly ambiguous, antidote to the madness of whatever era you happen to find yourself in.
Saltlick: Mind Food for Cyber-nomads. Douglas Milburn. Meditation, anew.
17 Koans for the 21st Century.
Ship Ahoy! An anonymous member of our rambunctious staff indulges in p----y. Again. This time on navigation. Or something.
The Silent Minority. Phalba Gallatin on those who know but do not speak.
S M I L E. Watch us work a little jigsaw while listening to Dowland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).
So Long, Shakespeare. Five more lines of p - - - - y, much to our publisher's disgruntlement.
Storm Warning. Itinerant mystic Chardo Blue Plains's latest weather report.
Summing It Up. Chardo Blue Plains on what it all means, Alfie.
sun (slideshow with midi).
Tasteless Jokes. An abundance, in every issue...
Taughtology. Katherine Ozanic. Nine words to live by.
Texas vs. China.
Texas Zen Hymnbook.
The 3 Turnings. Elinor Hoefs. Personality problems in us, and in the body politic.
Thunderclaps. Chardo Blue Plains. Timely tips on disappearing.
The Tree Man (Revised). Douglas Milburn.
3 Life-saving Bookmarks. Free! Free! Free!   A handy version of the Hsin Hsin Ming.
Tree Talks. Huang Xiao-Yi. Chinese nature poetry, and then some.
Turner paintings. With music.
29 Words for a Time of Psychic Contagion.
U N I T Y. The world's longest, slowest Internet slideshow.
La Vida un Sueño. Pedro Bofecillos on taboos, dreams, frontiers, and the great silence.
Watch It! Obscurantist editor Piongo Pisgah with a few "words of advice for aspirant metaphysicians."
The Water or the Wave? A question from John Fowles's The Magus. Image with midi.
Weeds. A hectoring question or a gentle reminder?
What, Me Chatter? Chardo Blue Plains on what's wrong with your/my/everybody's internal reality. Yawn.
Wheel Words
Woodcuts. Old-timey pix with old-timey music.
Words! Our version of the last line of the "Hsin Hsin Ming."
Yoga Tip. Piongo Pisgah sums it all up in one sentence.
YINYANGBANG. Animated gifs + music = a break from all those Internet words.
You Are What You Believe. Maurice Fitznuggly's self-help test re systems of belief.
Zen Centerfold No. 1. Never before in the history of the world...
Zen Centerfold 69. Slideshow with midi (2:06).
Zen Centerfold 72. Image with midi (1:58).
Zen Centerfold 74. Slideshow with midi (3:10).
Zen Centerfold 75. Slideshow with midi (1:36).
Zen Centerfold 77. Image and music (1:28).
Zen Centerfold 80. Slideshow with music (1:30).
Zen Centerfold 86 Slideshow with midi (3:52).
Zen Centerfold 87.
Zen Centerfold 93. Slideshow with midi (1:45).
Zen Centerfold 94. Slideshow with midi (1:33).
Zen Centerfold 96. Slideshow with midi (3:59).
Zen Centerfold 102. Beethoven plus some pictures. Slideshow with midi (7:07).
Zen Centerfold 104. Schubert, "The Wanderer." Slideshow with midi (5:47).
Zen Centerfold 112. Slideshow with midi (3:43).
The Zen Writer's Progress. Ten tortuous steps on the brambly path of the wholly word-addled.

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