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  • Research method: napping

    Over the years as I worked through the #trudgery of academic assignments, napping has become an important aspect of my process. I read and write on a subject for a few hours. Then I drink about 8 ounces of black… Continue reading

    Research method: napping

  • The Journey to Mindfulness

    To give everything back in open communication–the fullness of love–is the vocation of everyday life… Realize this… Around our ownmost personhood there is a circle of earnestness that we might call our mindfulness. It has two principal faculties, the will-to-order… Continue reading

    The Journey to Mindfulness

  • Keeping Vigil

    I call the time between first and second sleep the Night Vigil, following the old monastic traditions. For me, Night Vigil begins with an examination of conscience: Oh thou Encompassing, thou All, thou One. How can I give myself over… Continue reading

    Keeping Vigil

  • afternoon walking downtown

    white daisy bunches near gold dandelion neighbors a full vacant lot Continue reading

    afternoon walking downtown

  • OM Calming Meditation | Youtube

    Related articles Meditation on Sound (travellerunknown.wordpress.com) Gayatri Mantra and Its Scientific Interpretation (harikrishnamurthy.wordpress.com) “Om – Everythin… (katymobley.wordpress.com) Significance of OM (experiencehinduism.wordpress.com) Keeping concentration during meditation (buddhajourney.net) OM – State of non-return (dierievnia.wordpress.com)   Continue reading

    OM Calming Meditation | Youtube

  • ▶ Happiness in life – YouTube

    Ajahn Brahm giving a Dharma talk in Bangkok. Related articles Just two small bricks (keithwaynebrown.com) Liberation Through Non-Clinging (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 0026: Become Your Breathing (keithwaynebrown.com) Alan Watts on Waking Up (keithwaynebrown.com) Continue reading

    ▶ Happiness in life – YouTube

  • St. Symeon

    Symeon the New Theologian (Greek: Συμεὼν ὁ Νέος Θεολόγος; 949–1022 AD) was a Byzantine Christian monk and poet who was the last of three saints canonized by the Eastern Orthodox church and given the title of “Theologian” (along withJohn the Apostle and Gregory of Nazianzus). “Theologian” was not applied to… Continue reading

    St. Symeon

  • THIS is – this IS – THIS IS

    morning satori authentic letting-go? walking along, listening to Alan Watts THIS clicks into place thoughts weaken, fall away after a last tugging illusion a hesitation then/there – NO! now/here YES! Squirrel running along wall chittering & skittering THIS is this… Continue reading

    THIS is – this IS – THIS IS

  • Walking Meditation 20130309

    “Everybody knows how useful it is to be useful; nobody knows how useful it is to be useless.” –Zhuangzi Contemplating how seeking after the future makes all things but mere tools on the way to success in a later-on nowhere… Continue reading

    Walking Meditation 20130309

  • Zen Gateway Online

    A brief guide to The Zen Gateway website – the online community for Chan/Zen Buddhism. via Zen Gateway Related articles Learning To Live In The Moment With ‘The Dude’ (wnyc.org) Hakuin: The sight of one hand clapping (japantimes.co.jp) Temple teaches… Continue reading

    Zen Gateway Online

  • Meditatio

    You can listen to a piece that I put together called Meditatio by clicking here. Continue reading

    Meditatio

  • Eyes of Spirit: Works by Adam Scott Miller

    My own life’s work as an artist is an expression of energy, creating my response to what I feel is needed for harmony between my consciousness and the cosmos. Visionary art is this pursuit of harmony, in courageous creativity for… Continue reading

  • Singing in the Dark Temple of Midnight

    I am here to sing thee songs. In this hall of thine I have a corner seat. In thy world I have no work to do; my useless life can only break out in tunes without a purpose. When the… Continue reading

  • Together Alone Coming Down Later

    After doing prostrations, bending old body into the smoke-filled interior of the strange bedding, mind detaches from flowing world. Ages pass into moments pass into chaos pass into stillness where all these perennial teachings push me to transgress, to overcome,… Continue reading