3rd Eye Activation
February 12, 2015
NO EDGES, NO BOUNDARIES
February 6, 2015
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We are free, every one of us. We are born free, and the bondage, restrictions, and limits that we find in our life are self-created. The edges we perceive have been placed there by the way we use our minds. There are fundamentally no edges, no boundaries. But this practice has nothing to do with believing. We don’t have Zen believers. It also has nothing to do with understanding. Understanding implies a separation between the knower and the thing that the knower knows. It has to do with direct and intimate experience itself. Your experience. Not Shakyamuni Buddha’s, not mine—yours. Only you can make yourself free. No one can do it for you. The only one with the power to do it is you yourself. “Only a Buddha can realize Buddha”—and it is nowhere to be found other than on top of the seat that you’re sitting on. –John Dido Loori |
February 4, 2015
Wait without Hope
January 19, 2015
T.S. Eliot: “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
Do not call to mind the former things…
January 11, 2015
“Do not call to mind the former things,
Or ponder things of the past.
Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will ever make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the Desert…” ~Isaiah 43:18-19
Eiko Peiko 1995-2014
December 27, 2014
My beloved long time companion has left for another world.
Baruch Dayan Emet. ברוך דין אמת
Macbeth, again and surgery update
November 26, 2014
Thinking about what is happening in Israel, I cannot find anything better than the below, from Kurosawa’s MACBETH, which I’ve already posted a few times, but it never gets old. Besides that I can now lift my left arm to about 160 degrees, Barucha Ha Shem…(yes, feminine on purpose).
Look upon the ruins
Of the castle of delusion,
Haunted only now
By the spirits
Of those who perished.
A scene of carnage
Born of consuming desire,
Never changing
Now and throughout eternity.
Rotator Cuff Surgery on October 20th
October 17, 2014
I’m preparing to enter the underworld in less than 48 hours.
Chan Master Han Shan
October 13, 2014
Why do you replace the pupils of your eyes with black beans? There is a way, easy to tread! Its as easy and plain as a pair of scales. Just avoid hankering after attractive side-shows and in time you will enter the Imperial City.
–Chan Master Han Shan.
Film Comment mentions MINOTAUR
October 6, 2014
Hey! fun that Film Comment mentioned my new film….
