What a benefit it could be for us to move beyond a tourist’s way of being in the world and instead invoke the spirit of a traveler, one who is willing to step inside their questions about worlds different from
So much has happened that in some ways the time has flown by. Only others who’ve walked the grief journey can truly relate. I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to feel at this three-year anniversary of Patrick’s death. Overall, I am doing well. Day by day I continue to move...
So much has happened that in some ways the time has flown by. Only others who’ve walked the grief journey can truly relate. I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to feel at this three-year anniversary of Patrick’s death. Overall, I am doing well. Day by day I continue to move...
(images from)Li Zhuowu’s late-16th-century critique, and a circa1835 Japanese translation. Here, I’d like to add another, theNewly Annotated Journey to the West With Illustrations(Xinshuo Xiyouji tuxiang, 新說西遊記圖像, 1888). The original text and commentary are the same, but this ...
All the patterns, all the pain and joy and sorrow, all the ways in which I have tied myself into knots over his dying and death. And in that moment, that elusive clarity, I say, “I think I need to give myself credit.” Now I am quiet, I take a deep breath, and I let ...
, the novel is a separate work that was published nearly 30 years after JTTW. Look at this piece as a fun “What if?” Fig. 1 – Monkey’s headstone (larger version). I. Possible Ways Ch. 44 of Investiture mentions ten magical array traps that rely on primordial energies, destructive...
You alone in a room for hours at the time learning in ways you never have done before. It hits your personality and your doubts. You start second-guessing. Is what I am learning now, really what I want to learn? Do I want to use it in the future? Can I see myself working with...
After receiving separate complaints about Monkey’s behavior, Heaven decides to give him a celestial position in order to keep his misadventures in check. A stellar deity is dispatched to invite him to the realm above: The Gold Star came into the center of the cave and stood still with his...
This resembles stories of the ancient god Pangu (盤古) (fig. 3), the first being born into primordial chaos who slaved to separate heaven from earth, cleaving one from the other and forcing them apart. Stevens (1997) writes this monumental task took its toll on the titan: He died as ...
Wukong drew near and asked, “Whose little brother are you, and what do you want, barging through my gate?”“Lawless monstrous monkey!” shouted Nezha. “Don’t you recognize me? I am Nezha, third son of the Pagoda Bearer Devaraja. I am under the imperial commission of the Jade Empero...