Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Tao, Zen — they are both like Love.
There are no words to adequately describe Tao or Zen, no one can tell another what Love is.
When you first feel any of the three, you think you understand and that you know what they are; as time goes on, you realize that you do not know.
When your [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
One day as Manjusri stood outside the gate, the Buddha called to him, “Manjusri, Manjusri, why do you not enter?”
Manjusri replied, “I do not see myself as outside. Why enter?”
- a koan related by the Venerable Gyomay Kubose
Outside, inside. Dark, light. Good, bad….
Everything is the best.
Everything is moon.
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
Someone’s singing in the baby monitor and it ain’t I.
In spite of recalling that the reviews were pretty negative, I tried to give “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” a watch last night. It was a free, “on-demand” choice and I figured I’d only lose time. Besides — how bad could it be with Kenneth Branagh [...]
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Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there.
I will try to speak to you in a random way, so you listen to me likewise.
- The Book of Chuang Tzu (trans. M. Palmer)
in the sun the light
sparkles like glitter, the snow
flakes almost [...]
Sunday, November 25, 2007
My daughter is showing her colors and my! are those colors flaky.
Our household has been visited by a cold. First it was me who was coughing and sniffing and feeling generally out of sorts. Then Misha joined in and we commiserated together. Rowan has had her own bout with the stuff, although [...]
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