Ainoma, the space between two structures in a Japanese temple
Ainoma, the space between, where you are in two places at once, or neither, beyond logic, confused perhaps, but open and ready for some kind of enlightenment, “about as near Nirvana as would be convenient in practical life”, as RLS says. We invite you to attend to discussion, readings and music on this theme.
Tags: ainoma, Alice through the Looking Glass, An Inland Voyage, Animals in the Zoo, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Child's Garden of Verses, Embryonic Journey, Four Quartets, I'm Only Sleeping, Incredible String Band, Japanese temple, Jefferson Airplane, Kinks, Mike Scott, Nirvana, Not Dark Yet, Open, Ram Das, Stevenson, Story-Books in Winter, T.S. Eliot, Waterboys, Wendell Berry
A wonderful programme of wandering and unexpected connections – and juxtaposed unconnections, of course – including the unexpected origin of “evening under lamplight”. I listened to it with a standard lamp lit, attenuating the gathering dusk.