The This & That Separates Our True Nature
Self-Realization is beginningless, endless, ever-present. It is both the path and destination. Our intellect can take us just so far as though we are at… Read More »The This & That Separates Our True Nature
Essays by Fashi Lao Yue
Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART FOUR
We will crave privacy, a space of our own around which we can create a ring of fire or a moat. Ming Zhen… Read More »Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART FOUR
We All Suffer Birth & Death – A Buddhist Invitation
The old man illumines forms and their nature and knows that we share in the suffering of birth and death. Each one of us was… Read More »We All Suffer Birth & Death – A Buddhist Invitation
Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART TWO
It is hard for us in the 21st century to image building a grass hut up in a far-off mountain range. A place we would… Read More »Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART TWO
How to Survive the Collapse of the Silver Lining
Only the Truth and Nothing But the Truth… So Help Me All created things are impermanent. That’s really quite a mouthful. But I’ll continue. All… Read More »How to Survive the Collapse of the Silver Lining
All One Cloth
We are all one cloth. We all are powered from somewhere else. Consider it. All one power grid or separate bits and pieces… Read More »All One Cloth
Do You Think You are Better Than or Worse Than Someone Else?
Equanimity, is the Antidote to Jealousy, Envy and Thinking You Are Better or Worse Than Someone Else Equanimity is the wisdom to know the transient… Read More »Do You Think You are Better Than or Worse Than Someone Else?
A Poem to Take to Heart
The Third Position: Neither Here, Nor There Then, Once and Now… EF Hulsizer, 2004 It is just a matter of hitting the bell, closing the… Read More »A Poem to Take to Heart
A Person of the Way Fundamentally Does Not Dwell Anywhere
December 27, 2020, Falling Off the World A cold morning below a shimmering gray-cloud illusion above. To the East, the illusion splits apart letting the… Read More »A Person of the Way Fundamentally Does Not Dwell Anywhere
We play with Paste by Emily Dickinson, 1862
We play at Paste – We play at Paste – Till qualified, for Pearl – Then, drop the Paste – And deem Ourself a fool… Read More »We play with Paste by Emily Dickinson, 1862
Dog on Ice
…despite the impossibility of tracing back a single effect to a single cause, human nature allows for no other response to an event…. there… Read More »Dog on Ice
TRENDS
I read this morning that the early Christian church took on the laws and structures of the Roman state. It was when persecutions of Christians… Read More »TRENDS