The reason children are excited to see what comes next is because they don’t assume they already know. They don’t look at their thoughts about what something is, they explore. They expect the unexpected. But as adults we assume that...
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current glides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper;...
Buddha in Glory Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet– all this universe, to the furthest stars all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit. Now you feel how nothing clings to you; your vast...
Hold Everything Dear by Gareth Evans (for John Berger) as the brick of the afternoon stores the rose heat of the journey as the rose buds a green room to breathe and blossoms like the wind as the thinning...
Be Ahead of All Parting Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through...
Ask the World to Reveal Its Quietude Ask the world to reveal its quietude— not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellows, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.
