Torn Out Twice
Crawling alien — wet belly down, chafed and chapped skin, no claws or fur to protect an exposed white membrane. The hillside quietly drinks from snowmelt, roots peeping up as […]
Mindfulness
Welcome to Heroes Here-and-Now
Have you ever experienced real, unconditional joy? Have you every been completely certain of something? Have you ever been totally committed to someone or something other than yourself? Have you ever
Breathing as one, Mindfulness, Peace, True Nature
The 9 Breaths: Breath 5
How can a tiny gap in the breath lead to enlightenment? How can we gain freedom from the enslavement of the Mind? Why did Buddha Gautama take 6 years to
Breathing as one, Mindfulness, no separation, True Nature
The 9 Breaths: Breath 4
This is when the mind stops and the bridge of the breath opens up to us.
duality, Mindfulness, Oneness, True Nature
The 9 Breaths: Breath 3
……the victims not the victors of civilization’s move.
Breathing as one, detachment, Mindfulness, The flow of pure love energy
The 9 Breaths: Breath 2
The Earth’s breath becomes part of the body when it is entering you and leaving you, but when it turns from down to up and up to down then it is no-body, no-mind.
Breathing as one, Mindfulness, True Nature
The 9 Breaths: Breath 1
Your breath is a bridge between the body and the universe. If that bridge is weak or broken then we are not really alive. In other words, your breath touches the core of your body and, beyond you, the universe.
attachment, Japanese Rituals, Mindfulness, Uncategorized
Temple Chronicle: Winter Training in Japan – Fear!
The heavily conditioned mind thrives on this substance ‘fear.’ It efficiently suppresses originality and the courage to be truly ourselves, first with others, but then eventually with ourselves, so that we are no longer familiar with our True Nature and become self-dishonest.
attachment, impermanence, Mindfulness, True Nature
Envy: the Middle Way
Envy comes from an extreme selfishness and an ignorance of ones own inner beauty and bliss. If we have not allowed our own being to bloom due to pressure to compete with others so common in the world today, then we lack trust, trust in our uniqueness, in our goodness. And trust in others to recognize our uniqueness and our goodness.
Bodhi, detachment, impermanence, Mindfulness, True Nature
Embracing death and therefore life
If we know death at each moment we also know life.