I got put in FB jail yesterday for posting a Google image of a bondage mask, but that wasn’t the cause. It was my mindless panic in trying to erase the image that resulted in my reposted it three times that brought down the ax. This is like a Zen Koan in which you struggle […]
Help, I’m in Facebook jail for three days. I posted a Google image with a bondage mask to support a piece on the way we see the mask as bondage, and when warned about the image I tried to take it off and inadvertently posted it more times, which put me in jail for three […]
The struggle for freedom of America’s original slaves in an ongoing metaphorical struggle of humanity for liberation from the prison of our past, our history, and our karma. The Edmund Pettis bridge is the mythological bridge over which we must all cross to get to our promised land, individually and as a people. The truth […]
Whatever unpleasant situation adults find themselves in, like stranded with a flat tire, the child will find something to play with. The Zen Practice is awakening that sense of play. After all, didn’t Jesus say you must be like a little child to get into the Kingdom of Heaven, or Presence as Eckhart Tolle calls it? In […]
Your song caresses the depth of loneliness, O high mountain bird (Basho) ____________________ Mountains are very lonely, so still, so silent, so immense, so full of presence and being. The poet is caressing his loneliness with his song. He is the high mountain bird that goes far above other birds to sing of solitude […]
Wet with morning dew and splotched with mud, the melon looks especially cool (Basho) __________________ What, did the melon just run a race through the mud? I like the way Basho makes objects subjective, giving them feeling and personhood. When you walk with Basho through his very simple world it comes alive. Nature is alive […]
But for the woodpecker tapping at a post, no sound at all in the house. (Basho) _________________ We all have heard the woodpecker tapping, tapping…and the house must be very quiet to hear that tapping outside. But what is the house here? No thoughts in the house either. Thought are sound. Sound is movement. Thoughts […]
Singing, planting rice, village songs more lovely than famous city poems (Basho) _______________________ Why are village songs more lovely than city poems? Why are country people different than city people? What is the ground of each? Is city life artificial? Is the village in the body while the city is in the mind? Are family […]
Lonely silence, a single cicada’s cry sinking into stone (Basho) __________________ How unusual to associate sound with stone. The poets creates an intermediate zone where sense data is mixed in unfathomed ways to come up with a new sense that no single sense can be conscious of. The poet plays with sense portals like a […]
“Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now) ____________________ Is reality good or bad? […]
“Whatever you learn through psychoanalysis or self-observation is about you. It is not you. It is content, not essence. Going b beyond ego is stepping out of content.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now) _____________________ What you observe as something— thoughts, emotions, feeling, concepts, psychological theories—is the separation of you The One) into two. […]
“There is no such thing as “my life,” and I don’t HAVE a life. I AM life. I and life are one. It cannot be otherwise. So how could I lose my life? How could I lose something that I don’t have in the first place? How could I lose something that I AM? It […]
“If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are are, then what’s left is who you are—the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined. Give up defining yourself—to yourself and others. You won’t die. You will come to life.” Eckhart Tolle (from The […]
The question of KAV’s guilt or innocence is framed by our inability to rest in ambiguity, to hold judgment, no restrain from choosing this or that. We live in a rational logical materialism where truth must be Either this Or that. Truth can’t be this/that; truth can’t be ambiguous, so we can’t by the force […]
Social media is changing everything because everyone is watching everything live. There is no more time; everything is Now. We are a internet species now, a flock of starlings that shift in unison in flight. Common sense wise we are still living in the Newtonian universe of billiard balls knocking into each other as cause […]
The moral crisis is when we must choose what is right but can’t, yet we must. When both choices have equal arguments and emotional power, and Truth or the One is divided against itself. Truth Is One…Reality is not two unless you are a schizophrenic. So to avoid the psychosis of a split mind we […]
Just watched Black Panther on Netflix and as an extended metaphor (which movies are) you can get any meaning you want from the movie, so I’ll just point out one I saw. Wakanda is a culture that was hijacked by a ritually confirmed king (Trump) who out of his personal anger took the culture in […]
