mind melts dripping thoughts watering the white rose –Terry Chitwood Heaven The white rose in Dante’s The Divine Comedy (Paradiso Canto XXXI:1-27) is composed of a host of saints circling the Divine Light (God) with angels making a winding descent into the white rose, in essence, becoming part of the white rose (see the illustration […]
Archives for August 2013
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Tasteless Tea
tasteless tea brewed by mind alone –Terry Chitwood Intuition Who brews your trading tea? If you allow your intellect alone to make all your trading decisions, you will drastically limit your trading experience. Thoughts are tasteless. Intuition introduces itself with colorful images, inner music playing, or the fragrance of a flower brushing your face. Intuition […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Red Sun Blooms
red-rose petal swirls to the sky red sun blooms –Terry Chitwood My free-form haiku could be symbolically interpreted in various ways. Firstly, it could symbolize the spread of Zen Buddhism throughout Japan (the land of the rising sun). Secondly, it could refer to the positive effects of Christianity (the red-rose petal) on religious thought in […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Empty Sky
cloud dissolves– empty sky –Terry Chitwood My free-form haiku illustrates the paradox that when thoughts dissolve, the mind is empty; yet, without clouds, the sky is full. The sky is both empty and full—complete. In the sky, emptiness blossoms, raining seeds of enlightenment throughout the world. Negative Thoughts As the lights go on in financial […]