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The Earth, Buddha's family and the Ancestors are where the dream within the dream unfolds. It is in the Earth, in Buddha's family, through practice, through the teachings of the Ancestors that the awakening in... More »
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So Basho asked after a visit to the zoo, "They were a society of flightless creatures, content, secure, well fed and well taken care of. But were they pink flamingos?" Good question! The cosmologist Brian... More »
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How smoothly the creek's okesa Folds across the shoulders Of the rocks. Bowing through the incense smoke I catch the scent Of dry leaves wetted by the rain. Arriving for your shuso ceremony, I am... More »
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You have an idea of yourself. It is a kind of building. This building stands on the sound of your heart-beat, the imaginary width of rhythm. All night it stands there. On a sound, an... More »
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Life is a gift. How will you use it? How will you fully appreciate it? This is the thing. Gratitude is just a wonderful thing and it's available to all of us. So, what... More »
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I will weep and weep for you, O Mind; The world hath caught you in its spell. Though you cling to them with the anchor of steel, Not even the shadow of the things you... More »
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So yesterday afternoon i went hiking with Ingen and Roy around and over the Cave Hill. At one point we were standing near the edge of a cliff admiring spectacular views across the whole country stretching away... More »
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"All day and all night, music, a quiet, bright reed song. If it fades, we fade." - Rumi Tuning our lives to that most quiet and bright, most dark and passionately roaring ground note of... More »
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In a well that has not been dug, water ripples from a stream that does not flow. Someone with no shadow or form is drawing the water.
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