The Way is just this moment, these words... (Ch'ing Kung)
Things of the past are already gone. Things yet to be, distant beyond imagining. The Way is just this moment, these words: Plum blossoms fallen; Gardenia just opening. —Ch'ing Kung img
Things of the past are already gone. Things yet to be, distant beyond imagining. The Way is just this moment, these words: Plum blossoms fallen; Gardenia just opening. —Ch'ing Kung img
I wouldn’t mind walking with this dude for a bit. In general, though, it’s not so much one particular religious figure I’d like to meet (or have met) as a oneness of them. I would... More »
This morning I was in such an exalted mood, but now, at dinner-time, I’m feeling a bit on edge. I catch myself trying to explain it – oh, I waited too long to eat, blah... More »
Well, I suppose I might look back and say: Oh, I remember, that's when I wrote my six-word memoir . If I did, I might recall that it was during that period that Turtle became... More »
Each and every time I try to control life, it snatches the remote right out of my hand. You'd think I'd learn...
Stumbling around in the dark, trying to find the path I figured must be there somewhere. Finally seeing a light. Then, realizing that the light and the dark and the path were all part of an... More »
No one really, because I no longer feel separated from the people who are 'gone' from my life, or from those who are now in my life, or, especially, from myself. When I first read the... More »
What I saw as my mother's lifelong emotional abandonment. A couple of years ago I had a dream in which my mother and I were living together again, and one morning I woke up and... More »