Vapors
What would I do without my cold mist vaporizer in the middle of the desert? Shrivel up like a raisin, probably. This morning I’m contemplating the way my thoughts materialize out of nowhere, float around for awhile…
Meditation
Spring Shadows
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Drink Your Tea
Nothing more needed today.. besides some English Breakfast or Earl Grey.
Image shot while at Upaya Zen Center for an Insight Dialogue retreat.
Upaya Zen Center
I attended an Insight Dialogue retreat at Upaya Zen Center last week which focused on the meditative technique called Insight Dialogue practice. It was my first retreat at the center and I must say,…
Is there anything we own?
This morning I felt sedated, tired – as though a paper weight had been carefully placed over my heart, lest all the leaves and branches collected the before be blown away before they could be truly known. The space I inhabited was nonsensical. I could recollect the actions taken the day before but only in an
Just Rest
Oh, how the suffering of this life squeezes in on us sometimes. My family suffered a terrible shock – a sudden death in the family. I don’t have the energy for details…
the most ordinary perception
It is said that one may attain enlightenment at any moment if the mind is kept in a state of meditative readiness. The tiniest, most ordinary perception can be the stimulus: a view of the moon, the cry of a bird, the sound of the wind in the trees. It’s not so important what is [...]
Flags and Frost
How do crisscrossing lines of experience color and scratch the lens of awareness? What scares us away from the continual array of unfolding beauty? Why do we shut down? How can we be so blind to so many golden opportunities…
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