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  • Contemplation 209

    Eye turning upward   I falls away: Encompassing. Decisive release Continue reading

    Contemplation 209

  • Night Vigil 22 Oct 2014

    The enduring meaning of a process is the intuitive impulse to create. This is mirrored in the instinctual drives toward procreation and tool making. You can trace back any produced thing to its original. But the original is the expression… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130911

    If we live without regard for harmony, then we shall expend our precious energy waging pointless struggles. And the benefit? Vicious exhaustion. Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

    Textimony 20130911

  • A Mantra on the Way

    After spending the last year translating Dao de Jing with my dear friend and good brother, Lu Wenlong, a new “mantra” or phrase has become a regular part of the day. Dào does; I should not do. In my not doing,… Continue reading

    A Mantra on the Way

  • 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

  • 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

  • No Room for Improvements

    You would find your own life and the lifeworld itself flourishes with more gracefulness if you just let-go the need to improve yourself. Wait, wait: Don’t misunderstand me. Not recommending that you stop doing Yoga or meditating or learning skills… Continue reading

    No Room for Improvements

  • wandering, wondering: (a)maze

    Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the… Continue reading

    wandering, wondering: (a)maze

  • Comments to a Walking Meditation 20130205

    The good is one thing, the gratifying is quite another; their goals are different, both bind a man. Good things await him who picks the good; by choosing the gratifying, one misses one’s goal. Both the good and the gratifying… Continue reading

  • Mindfulness = Emptiness

    Mindful thinking properly becomes emptiness or no-thing. This begins by the inward turn. Being now/here, there is no then/there to which you can race that will possess all the things you “need” to possess. Continue reading

    Mindfulness = Emptiness

  • Turn a life around

    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia Source:… Continue reading

  • More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

    Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see… Continue reading

    More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

  • A Boon of Dandelions 2

    Frustrated. Nervous. Confused. Diseased. Disordered. Cloudy day and foggy mood although I do not think it a direct correlation: not then seasonal activity disorder. Melancholy abounds into my now/here; she empassions me darkly. Boundary situation of pain: Toes I sprained… Continue reading