Noble Truth
Terrible terrible terrible. We spend so much time defending ourselves and protecting our reputations. We’re not afraid to be terrible, we do it all the time, but we justify. Justify, excuse, justify. It’s absolutely terrible how we justify terrible things. We take terrible and make it good! Truth is we haven’t given ourselves the freedom to simply be terrible. This is sad. Sometimes we are not the…
Pray for him Pray for us
We most often pray for those we care about. We don’t usually pray for those we feel strongly against. Yet if we open up in a prayerful way towards our own anger, real change can happen, and like all real change, it starts with us.
Religious clarity
Buddhism is clarity. I suppose all great religions are. However all, including Buddhism become muddled over time. This is due to all sorts of causes, but one thing remains constant in the muddling of great messages, and that is our delusion. Delusion is not a natural occurrence so to say. But it occurs, one could…
Golden Tree
There is a beautiful treeIn the center of a lakeIt’s leaves are bright goldAs countless as the thoughts that flicker in our mindAs many leaves as thoughtsThat a lifetime would beholdEach leaf is a part of our mindWhether we cling toOr simply observe The leaves that are graspedMight just lose their formWith time all fadesJust…
Practice
As far as meditation goes, practice starts as practice and finishes as perfection.
Best not to practice on anyone else
Spaceships
Meditation is the practice that builds the foundation. What kind of foundation you may ask? And that is an excellent question. The foundation were talking about is a spiritual one. Now, these days spirituality is hit or miss, and my experience shows more misses than hits, not to mention the hits hurt. So I’m a…
Pollution is a byproduct of Ignorance
The worst of pollution is of the invisible kind.
We’re not talking about noxious gases here, nor are we talking about the sentless death of CO2. The worst invisible pollution is our own ignorance…
Uncertain solidity
The future is uncertain. We don’t know whats going to happen, but we have many hopes. Sometimes it’s the hope that keeps us going, sometimes its the hope that leads us down the wrong path, and distracts us from what is best to do. As far as hope goes there’s no guarantee. Which brings us…
Universal suffering
Who are the good people? Is there anyone out there that does not use the circumstances in their environment to benefit themselves, or themselves through proxies? At the worst, people play constant psychological games, centering constant attention and adoration upon themselves, slaying those who don’t go along with or expose the game. At best, people…
Weatherman
To get a strike, the bowling ball has to roll down a waxed surface, that has a slight tilt, and hit a composite pin, weighted in just a certain way, which then has to crash into 9 other pins, in a certain way in accord with the bowling balls strike trajectory, to knock the pins…
