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Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind:...
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Will It Ever Stop Snowing Dark Chocolate BarkMelt 8 ounces of the best bittersweet chocolate you can find, plus a pinch or two of cayenne, in a microwave safe bowl, at 30 second intervals, stirring...
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The new zendo, a former Christian chapel that still retains the lingering vibration of God's name and those spoken or silent petitions for salvation, petitions for mercy, is somehow beginning to...
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Not Knowing.Something that has been on my mind lately.My dharma brother D was in the zendo last week and delivered a beautiful talk to the sangha on Not Knowing. It was a timely dharma talk, since we...
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All The HemispheresLeave the familiar for a while.Let your senses and bodies stretch outLike a welcome seasonOnto the meadow and shores and hills.Open up to the Roof.Make a new watermark on your...
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Spring Equinox, with the promise of new beginnings, is upon us!After the coldest winter in Pennsylvania in over 20 years, and one of the snowiest, today is welcomed with open arms, face titled to the...
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Dedicated to Mumbles and Tizzy, who I happen to be missing today. I wish you well little cats.Dharma The Cat, by David Lourie
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Day 6 of the Spring AngoOne of my personal practice Gates is cooking hearty, healthy foods to support the next 8 weeks, to provide nurturing, delicious meals for my body. Yesterday I was thinking...
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Day 7 of the Spring AngoSpring naturally has sprungWhile aged trunk has fallenBreaking chain of thoughtThe cold field warmsAwakening roots and seedsGarbed in lively green--A. BloomThis was in my email...
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Turn your lights off tonight at 8:30, and leave them off...can you do it for the evening?16 things to do in the dark (as if you really needed a list....)Do absolutely nothing.Go outdoors and look at...
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April Is National Poetry Month
One HeartLook at the birds. Even flyingis bornout of nothing. The first skyis inside you, openat either end of day.The work of wingswas always freedom, fasteningone heart to every falling...
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Day 14 of the Spring Ango--Poetry In The Air
O sweet spontaneousearth how often havethe dotingfingers ofprurient philosophers pinchedandpokedthee,has the naughty thumbof scienceproddedthybeauty, howoften have religions takenthen upon their...
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Every ChildEvery child has known God,Not the God of names,Not the God of don'ts,Not the God who ever does anything weird,But the God who knows only four wordsAnd keeps repeating them, saying:"Come...
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Mind itself is luminous and clear, like immeasurable space, and any feeling, thought, or memory within it is like a cloud in a clear sky. Clouds have many shapes and qualities, and so do our thoughts...
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A DateThe first seated takes the chance he'll bestood up. She's getting on with the hope she mayget off. One and one make onein this riddle. Or, more closely, comedy routine:first, impressions;...
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Service doesn't start when you have something to give; it blossoms naturally when you have nothing left to take.--Nipun Mehta
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Spring Ango--Who Knows What Day It Is....
On Receiving My Letter of TerminationThe time has come to devote myself to my hiker's stick;I must have been a Buddhist monk in a former life!Sick, I see returning home as a kind of pardon.A stranger...
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This is where my 8th Great Grand Father Daniel Fogg and his family are buried. It's a small graveyard tucked in the back of a Maine corn field, just off a country lane, so secluded it took my husband...
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When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.--Shunryu Suzuki
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