While the edifice, your mind and your body, desires--it desires food, it desires sex, it desires security, it desires gratification of the senses, do you know what you want? What you want--you that's sitting inside? You want to be part of the harmony, the mist, the...
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. My eyes are like the sun that makes promises; the promise of life that it always keeps each morning. The living heart gives to us as does that luminous...
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of...
Funny isn’t it…. How we’ve chosen To be... Led, shown, guided, taught, illumined, inspired…. While others choose to be…. Shoved, tricked, cajoled, re-routed, mystified, shocked, mocked, De-frocked… For as many paths, There are as many Directions… Up, down, this-a-way,...
I had blocked my listening and visionary skills for so long. What is the point of listening to the stories that are locked in the bones? If who we are is Pure Consciousness, untouched by any thought, emotion, experience-why listen to a story? Then it came to me. My...
As I descend into basement shadows, I am washed in red. Smoothness is not a choice on the earthly plane. As light reveals, so also shadows are spawned. With this I must learn to rock my ignorance to sleep to await its hungry cry. I must feed my insincerity its milky...
Thirty spokes will converge In the HUB of a wheel But the use of the cart Will depend on the part Of the hub that is void With a wall around A clay bowl is molded But the use of the bowl Will depend on the part Of the bowl that is void. Cut out the windows and doors...
Easy is right. Begin right, and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way and forget the going is easy. ---Chuang-Tzu, The Inner Chapters, Gia Feng and Jane English
1. Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill-more of each than you have-inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their...