go with the flow
February 7, 2010
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.
– Lao Tzu
impermanent poem
February 6, 2010
wood is good
sun is warm
water on leaf falling
breeze is light
sky is blue
hear the old crow calling
– dsk
mirror mind
February 3, 2010
We assume that our mind automatically grasps reality but don’t know how artfully the mind works and, therefore, we live in delusion and suffering. The mind must be developed. The Buddhist teachings show how to liberate the mind from ignorance and obtain wisdom or insight. Wisdom implies a mind with equanimity, free of mental defilements, not influenced by worldly pleasures or suffering, a mind detached from the past and the future, a calm and collected mind that experiences that the reality of all phenomena is in its impermanence and selflessness.
– Lieu Phap, from “Land of Ten Thousand Lakes”
where you go is where you’ll be
January 29, 2010
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
– Isaiah 30:21
here and now
January 25, 2010
A monk was being chased by a tiger toward the edge of a cliff. He leaps off the cliff, grasping a vine that has grown over the edge. Below him is a long drop to a certain death, above him is the snarling tiger. As the monk swings in midair, a mouse begins gnawing at the vine above him. His position is one of utter precariousness. Growing out of the cliff in front of him is a wild strawberry, which he picks and eats. He says, “This strawberry is delicious.”
– Sylvia Boorstein, from “It’s Easier Than You Think”
You Are IT 