Practice
Practice the arts of attention and listening. Practice renewing yourself every day. Practice meandering toward the center of every place. Practice the ritual of reading sacred texts. Practice gratitude and praise-singing. -- Zi Zhang and Confucius
Thoughts on 12 Little Known Laws of Karma
What is Karma? Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton's law of ‘every action must have a reaction’ When we think, speak or act we initiate a force that will react accordingly. This returning force maybe modified, changed or suspended, but...
SMUDGE
In the birth canal you were anointed with the microbiome, smeared and smudged with the mighty host of earth's bacteria. Your first breath hugged atoms of all races, all tribes into your blood, the flesh of stars, particles of the ancestors, atoms from the body of...
It’s What We Are
Beneath the seething sea of feelings, sense impressions, thoughts and interactions the ground of being rests. Like bedrock on the ocean floor it forms a container for the psyche. It's the source of the "something more" we're always looking for. It's here, not...
For a Dancer
Keep fire burning in your eye Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don't remember losing track of you You were always dancing in and out of view I must have thought you'd always be around Always keeping things real by playing the...
Liberate Your Imagination
Let me remind you who you really are: You're an immortal freedom fighter who longs to liberate all sentient creatures from their suffering. You're a fun-loving messiah who devoutly wants to help all of your fellow messiahs claim the ecstatic awareness that is their...
It’s all Flow
All of our experiences, sights, sounds, smells and tastes are a flow. Even our thoughts and sensations and emotions are a flow, are they not, of objects of attention, sights and sounds that we normally think of as "outside myself". So our bodies are rivers, massive...
Are you looking for me?
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. You will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: Not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating...