Sensum Essay Contest

"Stop at the bare sensum" is the subject of the essay contest.

The essay will explore the act of stopping at the bare sensum; not to exceed the bare sensum or other means of excess in thought, speech or deed. (Buddhists and friends of Buddhists are not allowed to enter this essay contest, but are encouraged to continue practicing."

The winning essay will be published in this blog, if I can figure out how to transfer the essay.

I'm especially hoping to hear from the following people: sociopathic bankers, Wall Street types, Hedge Fund managers, MBA candidates, old people on Medicare who are afraid of socialized medicine, the 400 pound woman who called Paramedics to lift her off her trailer floor in Nevada, Yankee fans, Nigerian Scammers and the oil Elite and house painters. Although everyone is welcome to enter the contest, I will favor the self-identifying aforementioned.

There is also a list of celebrities who would receive a favorable reading, but I'm tired of celebrities this week. The Lindsay Lohan stay at Betty Ford was difficult. I've monitored the situation and found it to be simply exhausting. My source was fired for arriving at work drunk. I did learn that Big Foot left in a private car --tinted windows. He had expressed the desire to travel to Nepal to see his cousins the Yeti. Believe what you will, a suggestion I make with considerably unease.


Denmark -- Land of the Rising Sensum

In Denmark each sensum rises and decays and the Danes are watching! The sensum does not go unnoticed. Congratulations Denmark on being the country most attentive to the sensum!

This may seem like a small and curious cultural practice, but it is not. What it is though, I can't say. It may be that the sensum sends the Danes on long fretful bike rides or is cause for all manner of behavior, but the Danes are there at the sensum's rising, like naturalists at the sun rise.

The Danes are also great essayists, although it is a private affair. Their beloved sensum is coyly incorporated in their essays covering such topics as Swedish Meatballs, is fjord a misspelling, where the Danes would practice reckless military adventures (after the U.S) if they could and the flatness of flat tires. These and many more topics -- many deliberately banal -- are hidden in Danish laptops as exercises in sensum identification. The average Dane writes 3.5 essays a month.


A note on the sensum essay contest: The corporate funding has not materialized. There have been feelers, but the sensum as a subject or cause is not perceived as enhancing the corporate image.

Qualified judges for the essays have not been found. While everyone can experience the sensum, not everyone has the training or has done the reflection necessary to select among the essays that are written by crackpots or minor thinkers. Obviously, I am not trained to judge.