he read in the Philosophy of Tao as close he would tread to religion that Oriental yup Oriental  as Oriental is to Occidental  Edward Said that Oriental musicians learn music not by reading notes but by listening to their teachers playing  get the feeling of it  which allows her or him to acquire rhythmic and tonal sophistications                                                                                                                                sounded like jazz to him 

Tao refers to this as the peripheral mind

the peripheral mind he called his periferal is used for “knowledge of reality”

Tao concerns itself with unconventional knowledge 

                                                    where the fuck was that when he was a kid growing up beating his brains out in school 

Tao is understanding life directly instead of in the abstract refreshing  lessons were abstractions instead of the linear terms of representational thinking 

Tao seeks to restore and develop the original spontaneity termed “Tzu-Jan” self-so-ness

Shit had he known then Tao would have been so liberating 

                                                             free of convention not spurning it but not to be deceived by it to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it

Well   Wha the fuck 

                       Oriental to Occidental he couldnt help but wonder if this also wasnt race though to be sure his parents hadnt a clue when he mentioned Taoism to them

2339,  Monday,  3  2. 92

1516,  Monday,  22  3. 21

Don Cherry  Orient  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmxnQiYgoc