The new reader should memorize this statement.  The Experienced reader should totally erase this statement from memory.  The cosmic reader will do the other thing about this statement.

If you would go back over previous sessions in search of the note, message, statement or question most worth memorizing, what criteria would you use?  Would you memorize these two questions to help you find your criteria?

Odinn , the Viking God, has two ravens as his allies.  Their names are Muninn (memory) and Huginn (mind).  Odinn knows you need to get up-to-speed in all this, so he sends his helpful ravens right here in this very reference.  Think now about the Ravens of Odinn in the way that helps your thinking the most before you memorize the next note.

The Ravens of Odinn are Huginn (mind) and Muninn (memory).

There is a fascinating little verse from a poem of the Mexican poet, Octavio Paz, which reads like both a note and a Japanese haiku.  You need not memorize it (Muninn) but you might want to keep the essence of it in mind (Huginn).  Here it is:

Doblo la página del día,
escribo lo que me dicta
el movimiento de tus pestañas.

I turn the page of the day,
writing what I’m told
by the motion of your eyelashes.

This is now the next note after the previous poetic note.

But this too is the next poem after the previous noetic poem.

This note is an actual haiku of Bashó:

Furuike ya,
kawazu tobikomu;
Mizu no oto.

Breaking the silence
of an ancient pond,
A frog jumped into water –
A deep resonance.

But you need not memorize it.  It is quite enough to not be able to forget it.  If you can understand the meaning of unmemorized unforgetableness, go on to the next note.

Heidegger says, “Most thought-provoking in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”  Will you now think of the thinking we are still not thinking before you go on to the next note or will you just lurch into the next note?

A verse from the German poet, Hölderlin, reads:

Nicht ist es gut
seellos von sternblichen
Gedanken zu seyn.

It is not good
to be soulless with mortal
thoughts on existence.

Can you therefore demand thinking from yourself which is soulful and authentic?

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