Our Collective Initiation
“It does no good to turn and run from the terror of our darkness into light; we must sit it out: zazen.
The Ambiguous Identity of Truth and Bears…
The truth is like the bear. Is it a gentle beast, a model for the stuffed animal children love?
The Four Sisters of Everlasting Beauty
“Honor yourself before all else and you will embrace all life, All direction, All stars, All light.”
Love after Love
Give wine, Give bread, Give back your heart to itself
What really Matters at the End of Life
we will all go through (death) whether it be the one who is ‘leaving’ or the one(s) that are caring for them as they do.
On Resilience
“Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’”
Let me remind you
You’re an immortal freedom fighter who longs to liberate all sentient creatures from their suffering.
Give me the key…..
I promise not to walk on
anything green and tender
I promise to leave the weeding to you
You are far more…
Life was never meant to be safe.
It was meant to be lived right to the end.”
Mind is everything; mind is nothing
Mind pulls the universe out of a top hat, bows to its own applause, and walks off the stage, grinning.
SOS 1995
The atrocities over there,
the interior paralysis over here —
Pleased with the better deal?
And For No Reason…
And
For no reason
I start skipping like a child.
On relationship,love and sex
…almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.
The Altar of This Moment
In this one moment,
Your eyes meet mine and there is
a single looking.
Love’s Camel
“I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love’s camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.”
If You Listen
If you listen
Not to the pages or preachers
But to the smallest flower
Here I am Again
Here I am again, Lord,
offering you the fruit of
all my actions.
Money and Separation
Only when our sense of self expands to include others, through love, is that truism replace by its opposite: “More for you is also more for me”
Human only….
We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is NOT human.
I Had To Seek The Physician
I had to seek the Physician
because of the pain this world
caused me.
Say it!…
Do not miss a single chance — not one single opportunity —
to tell someone how wonderful they are
And what of life?
Life is an endless chain of experiences as we grow spiritually back towards our source.
A Lakota Prayer
Teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition
Let Go Once Again
It is all here to teach you.
It is all here to love you.
It is all here to liberate you.
And it is all perfect.