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
If You Do not Think There Are Demons…Just Wait ‘til Someone Slights You?
Demon-ghosts: Torments in the Mind Watch how you blame the world and other for your misery. Although I have been practicing Buddhism for a long… Read More »If You Do not Think There Are Demons…Just Wait ‘til Someone Slights You?
Accept and Appreciate
Acceptance No matter what you think about anyone else’s mistake Keep it to yourself. Don’t mention a word of it even into your own ear.… Read More »Accept and Appreciate
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
What do you do when you are suddenly the recipient of bad news?
Heed the wisdom from above…don’t look back…keep going…to high ground…in the Mind. I have always been taken with the Jewish story of Lot’s wife. She… Read More »What do you do when you are suddenly the recipient of bad news?