letting-go
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Reversion, Reconciliation, and Restoration: Toward Tranquility in the Current Empire
Looking Back Almost twenty years ago, I began troubling the word peace. Like many of us, I had long imagined peace as the cessation of violence, the arrival of stillness, the mutual exhale after the fire. But something in the… Continue reading
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Aphorism 17Mar2023
Do not talk to show-off the many things in your stable of understandings. Rather, speak to shine-forth the experience of passing-through this moment. Otherwise, remain in the dignity of silence. Flowing quietly with the Encompassing Now/Here, how can there be… Continue reading
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Warp and woof
Late June after the solstice is the time when I lose sight of writing and reading. Usually there is a burst of both just after school is out—that is how conditioned I am by the school year at the age… Continue reading
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Ethics and The Unblocked Life
Ethics: Acting in a situation with appropriate energy. Doing without overstepping what is necessary for life. (Where “life” is to be held as distinct from mere existence or survival.) And maybe that opens up the next query: What is life?… Continue reading
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May the Fourth Be with You
Let-go of what weighs you down… “Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.” ~Yoda. And May the Fourth be with you! Continue reading
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A Laud at Sunrise
_/|\_ A Prayer on Awakening with the Sun Oh thou Encompassing, thou Good, thou All, thou One. We turn ours beings toward the Way, and we take up responsibility for our paths. Let us rejoice in the rest we took through… Continue reading
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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
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Shedding
Taking out the trash I note a strange movement Near my feet Small garden snake Sliding and undulating Over sidewalk Happy I did not step on her Watching the slipping pattern Do not give more fright Than you have already… Continue reading
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Socratic Love
Love is simple. Continue reading
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Ressentiment on Aug 17
Ressentiment Feeling again the “cause” of frustration but the cause has no real effect feeling again only my imagination brings about this personal defect getting stuck in futures now/here superseded beyond where I’m butchered forward falling, impeded being stuck in… Continue reading
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Night Vigil 20140702
We are all hunting. Some for yesterday (redemption), some for tomorrow (expectation). But those who hunt for today (detachment) capture neither debt nor anxiety. Let-go! Continue reading
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For Jared
What is care of the self? Do we mean care of the I or care of the body or care of the being with an I in a body or care of the body with an eye for an I?… Continue reading
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is that so
Cold walk in the morning Bracing winds–why did I wear shorts? Bright sun does not find My heart, darkened by yesterday’s storm. Narratives of vicious injustice… “Is that so?” Feeling again self-righteous “Is that so?” Imagined confrontations– Short cruel enjoyment… Continue reading
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Textimony 20140311
Laboring at life as a distracted employee? Embrace existence as loving diversion! Let go of the ordinary: Allow yourself to be out-of-order. Continue reading
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