Inside/Outside is not a binary... it's just incorrect.

I am resuming this blog as of today--it's been an incredible ride, one worth "putting out there" for consideration... mine = this is the simple truth of blogging as a state of solipsism. Note: solipsism can be a tremendous framework for generosity as it can (contingent on discipline) eliminate fear and delusions--they're all in the mind. So just deny them access to the mind. They do not invade from "outside" so solipsism facilitates the work done "inside":

For example, see:

In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃 In'ei Raisan) by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Some excerpts:


[W]e Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.

I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration.