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Loving Struggle

  • Everything – Something- Nothing

    Thirty years ago, before I began the study of Zen, I said, ‘Mountains are mountains, waters are waters.’ After I got insight into the truth of Zen through the instructions of a good master, I said, ‘Mountains are not mountains,… Continue reading

    Everything – Something- Nothing

  • Originally posted on Teacher as Transformer: As I rested today, I missed the opportunity to be out there exploring. T. S. Eliot eloquently spoke of this. I seek for and find when I explore the cyclical journey we call life.… Continue reading

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  • Seeking what the Wise Seek

    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among… Continue reading

  • Honest Acknowledgment

    The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately… Continue reading

    Honest Acknowledgment

  • Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing

    I am sure that if you look through my site, you would find me to be some kind of Buddhist social critic. I post all kinds of Buddhist sayings as well as lots of material on the Society of Control… Continue reading

    Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing

  • On the Way to No-Thinking

    When in the seen will only be what is seen. And in the heard only what is heard When in the senses, only what is sensed And in the known, only what is known You will not be influenced by… Continue reading

  • Struggle Falling Away: Love

    “Here it is–right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.”  Huangbo, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po “Meditation is very simple. It means to surrender the mind, the body, and the world, from moment to moment, to the… Continue reading

  • Asking Questions Beyond Thinking

    Many who #meditate are surprised by the #etymology of #Mantra. Deepen your practice by embracing #uncertainty. goo.gl/5NhNZ — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) February 18, 2013 “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual… Continue reading

  • Debt and the Indebted Person

    What is it about “you must repay your debts” that allows even the best of people to justify the worst human actions? It is very much worth your time to at least listen to the 65 minute lecture below by… Continue reading

    Debt and the Indebted Person

  • Clouds drifting colorful

    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds Related articles Cloud Quotes (arlene1956.wordpress.com) Stories from Tagore, by Rabindranath Tagore (spr07.wordpress.com) Clouds And Waves… Continue reading

  • Love is not a duty or trade

    “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask… Continue reading

  • Thinking without Personal Recognition

    Youth: where is the bathroom? Sage: Evacuating the illusion of identity obtains to #Emptiness that never hungers, feeds, & yet seeks more. February 15, 2013 What a narrative: 50 I’s, my’s, myself’s, me’s, and Keith Wayne Brown’s are identifiable. Is… Continue reading

  • Thinking without Professional Recognition

    I work in and around higher education in the United States, but I am not a professor. I sometimes say that I am in the academy but not necessarily of the academy. This does not imply, however, that I refuse… Continue reading

    Thinking without Professional Recognition

  • Textimony 20130213

    Fretfully making, busily doing, absent the leisurely stretch that birthed Mona Lisa; heedless we run, without time for thinking’s yawning abyss: profound boredom.    Continue reading

  • The Struggle for Susiya

    In this context of legal impunity for settler attacks and military-sponsored land theft, Susiya’s villagers, often accompanied by Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, have maintained a consistent pulse of resistance, always rebuilding the homes from the ruins left behind and… Continue reading

  • Relaxed Light: Letting-go

    What are you holding on to there in your tight fists? Why are you holding back then in dark shadow? Now/here is CLEAR: Come on… Let go & let’s go! Source: pixdaus.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Are… Continue reading