#daoism — Public Fediverse posts

Though I can’t access the experience of mushroom selfhood or butterfly selfhood—I can’t know what it’s like to be those people—there is some relationship between the mushroom and me, the butterfly and me, some common rouser or piper that pipes 'puhpowee' in the night and creates the conditions for all of our selves to emerge, however different they are from each other.

https://freeanduneasy.blog/we-are-the-morning-mushrooms/

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4/4 It took me a long time to finish it, and it is quite long, but I hope it captures my thought process, or the connection I see between these two texts and why it matters.

https://freeanduneasy.blog/we-are-the-morning-mushrooms/

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I know this is the *ideal* time to post a nearly 4000 word blog post on selfhood, identity, fungi, and butterflies. Who doesn't want to spend their Friday night reading long personal musings about Daoism and indigenous knowledge???

https://freeanduneasy.blog/we-are-the-morning-mushrooms/

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Astronomical personifications in #ChineseArt are distinguished by impressive vivacity. These dramatic faces.
Jade Emperor Temple (玉皇庙), Fucheng, Zezhou, Shanxi. The Hall of the Twenty-Eight (Lunar) Mansions (二十八宿殿), colored clay, Yuan Dynasty.
See also this standing figurine depicting a sign of the Chinese Zodiac from SLAM collection, Southern Song.
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