Stygian Horizons

Been a long time since anything was on this page. Here goes a little something … for if anyone happens to stop by for some unknown reason.
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Behold!
These broad doors
Always shut, it seems
The storm of God-man rises
Ever raging beyond
Sparked from ego’s greed
Eternal pressure pounds
Tendrils of the soul all tingling

Enter my thralldom! proclaims the blacksmith

Blacksmith!

In what chamber was forged this tempest?
Set to ruin these walls constructed in prostration

Wanderer!

My molten iron rages through your veins
Your kind are wont to feel its scalding

This oaken heart
Behold!
As it splinters and screams
Yearning to join without
Pulsing from within
The sinuous serpent’s fold
Forcing all that lies within
Our own creation set adrift

Enter my thralldom! proclaims the earth shaker

Poseidon!

Guide not my vessel to the belly of the whale
Mind’s eye reveals a voyage into the abyss of desire

Wanderer!

In mindless hunger fire overflows the heart
Release your hold, balance wills its nature to transform

Rays of golden light, pure
Bursting forth throughout reality
Wrath of ignorance, incoherent
Smoldering in the warmth of creation

Realize its brilliance as grey reveals as light
Unfolding eternally outward, all-encompassing
The greatness of truth knows each one as all
And in knowing will be found that all is but illusion

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I’ve finally gotten all of the photos from my trip online–well, the ones I’m going to be posting anyway, there are thousands of them all together! Click “Mongol-China Adventure 2007″ in the right column or the banner below to view the photos. Soon I’ll be adding some commentary and photo explanations, though the photos by themselves will have to suffice for now.

Filed by Chris 大斌 at 5:19 pm under China 中国, Mongolia, Photography, World Wanderings
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In this heart will you dwell
Forever as one—strength and fallibility
In the overflowing pool of emotions
Forever circulating—love and memory

Toward the eternal dark of night I look
Its void—the celestial majesty—seen
Into the depths of starlit oneness I venture
Your gaze-—warm yet piercing—draws me

Betrayed by its logical nature
My mind struggles to contain your mystery
Heart’s wisdom overcomes the struggle …
Humble purveyor of love and serenity

The taste of your name on my lips
Brings a sweetened quickening of breath
Your pale moon face forever in mind
Memory calls forth every groove and plane

Many fair faces have these eyes seen
Always come and go … have come and gone
Though in this night sky yours will ever be
As the full moon pales the stars with its sheen

Filed by Chris 大斌 at 11:59 am under Adventures In Poetry
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It’s official … I will be returning to China this summer!!!

I’ll be leaving either June 16th or 17th, and will be accompanied by he who is called Ross. First we’re going to hit up Beijing for several days, then head up to Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, for about 12 days. After that we’ll head back into China and make for Xi’an, where I was volunteering summer, 2005. We’ll stay in Xi’an for about 15 days, for where my feelers bare out to see if I can’t land me an English teaching job. After Xi’an we’re gonna make the journey to Lhasa, in Tibet, and stay there for about a week or so.

If I don’t get a job in Xi’an, at this point we’ll both head back to Beijing from Lhasa and fly out on August 5th or 6th. If I do get a job, though, I’ll head back to Xi’an after Lhasa and see what happens.

Don’t worry, I’ll be posting some pictures and anecdotes of our shenanigans.

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I’ve joined a Chinese language meetup group on the site meetup.com, and my first meetup with the group took place at the 2006 Moon Festival at Colima Hong Kong Plaza in Rowland Heights. The festival itself seemed a bit too commercial for my tastes, but all in all it was a fun experience. It was really great to connect up and be a part of some of the Chinese culture here in Southern California. I met a lot of great people in the group and look forward to meeting up with them more in the future.

The best part of the day was at the restaurant in the plaza. I don’t remember the name of the place, but it had some of the most authentic Chinese food I’ve ever eaten in the States. It actually tasted like the food in China! You can see some pictures from the Moon Festival by clicking the images below.

Filed by Chris 大斌 at 3:33 pm under General, Photography
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