words of a people aligned in their perfect order
I’m cutting filters in half
dreaming of guilt, a world I don’t occupy
keeping two filled zippos out of a collection
32 gallons of paint and no will
and then she said
“me parece interesante
lo que haces donde vives”
precisamente esto,
de todos los momentos,
el mundo no es tan feo en la mañana.
– Hoc Scripsi
All figures were either originally drawn by my son or directed by him. He chose the colors, figures, and painted the banjo and trampoline – all the hand prints are his as well. This was a fun project and one that he will get to enjoy as long as he needs a play room.
One photo of him for good measure.
While I’m not lost, I am sojourning on my own. Sort of. I have my companions who each are on their own spiritual path but we tread together. K, Jackson, Micael, our dead and several others, still living; this is what I believe.
Buddha said to work it out for ourselves and that is what I am doing.
How long is this life? I do not fear death. How long is this life? I do not fear death. How long is this life? I do not fear death.
I have already died, they have already murdered me. I have tread a path to the other side so I know what is next and live accordingly.
Death has set at his table a place for this body eight times hence and will be set again; I shall remember the names of our dead.
a comment of mine from a blog entry that dealt with whether or not it is proper for a person who makes a living teaching health and mental balance through yoga or transcendental thinking….
I think it is all contextual. Once we parse out why we do things, anything, we can see the behavior in it’s correct light and take the appropriate action. A drink or two after a particularly stressful day is not poisoning your body or mind but utilizing a tool available at your disposal. Utilizing this same tool frequently or justifying it by creatively making everyday a difficult one probably isn’t in the nature of a spiritual or well-being guide, and is poisoning your mind. To believe both situations are apples to apples is to reveal ignorance and an askance aspect of motivation and balance. The middle way is not best achieved by alining ourselves with notions of rightness or wrongness, pointing out the faults or excusing the faults of others, but living and practicing in a way that allows ourselves to break free from these same notions which are given to us from external sources and not a product of our true mind.
I just sort of spit it out but thought it interesting enough – I may well be a Buddhist but I have never claimed to be any good at it.
the platitudes of willful resemblance 