I try to empty myself of images which have made me blind–Leonara Carrington
June 16, 2013
June 12, 2013
“Give thanks for unknown blessings
already on their way.” ~~
Native American saying
June 9, 2013
All is never lost unless the bodies perception overrides the souls awareness and knowledge…
June 5, 2013
~~~~~~~ Do Your Practice, All Is Coming ~~~~~~
June 2, 2013
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass
June 1, 2013
LIBERATION IS IMMINENT
May 31, 2013
A friend writes to me today:
You find yourself in a dilemma where you are “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” You cannot solve such dilemmas by choosing a side because both paths lead to suffering. The only way out is to transform your perspective to a place where the dilemma no longer exists. This is possible–with time, patience and …some…good help.
Einstein said it like this: “We cannot solve our problems on the same level that we created them.”
TIME TO MOVE TO THE NEXT SQUARE…
May 21, 2013
With thanks to Lior Shamriz
The City
You said, “I will go to another land, I will go to another sea.
Another city will be found, better than this.
Every effort of mine is condemned by fate;
and my heart is — like a corpse — buried.
How long in this wasteland will my mind remain.
Wherever I turn my eyes, wherever I may look
I see the black ruins of my life here,
where I spent so many years, and ruined and wasted.”
New lands you will not find, you will not find other seas.
The city will follow you. You will roam the same
streets. And you will age in the same neighborhoods;
in these same houses you will grow gray.
Always you will arrive in this city. To another land — do not hope —
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you have ruined your life here
in this little corner, you have destroyed it in the whole world.
Constantine P. Cavafy (Alexandria,1910)
Kurosawa’s version:
May 12, 2013
Those who pursue the Dharma, go slow and easy. “Boring” you say? Maybe. Maybe it’s downright dreary to stop and smell a flower or listen to a bird. Maybe a glint of gold is really more dazzling than the sight of one’s Original Face. Maybe what we need is a better definition of “treasure”.
~~zen master han shan
May 4, 2013
It is possible…
It is possible at least sometimes…
It is possible especially now
To ride a horse
Inside a prison cell
And run away…
It is possible for prison walls
To disappear,
For the cell to become a distant land
Without frontiers—Mahmoud Darwish