Missing Shoe One expects such things From socks: one of a pair Missing and presumed Lost forever from the washer Or drier—a mystery Always, and always then leaving Its mate lying alone In the top drawer after Our unsuccessful search. But shoes, not so much. When I place the pair Together in the closet Before crawling into bed I fully expect them both To be there when I …
Artful Endeavor
The Liberated Spontaneity Of Wholeness Via Unbounded Wholeness, here's a distinction worth contemplating: "It must be understood, however, that even without the effort of "taking up [or] putting aside," enormous perseverance is required to realize the Dzogchen view. In this regard, the Authenticity's distinction between artful endeavor ('bad pa) and effort (rtsol ba) is critical. Effort …
Who Knows
A hard cold rain a forest of wind late at night the lotus drips who knows the dream that entrances the world is simply the luminous prajna mind ~ Han-shan Te-ch'ing (trans. Red Pine) * …
Practice Notes: Cynicism
Well, we’re coming up now on the two-week anniversary of the infamous internationally livestreamed Ford-Kavanaugh showdown, compliments of the Senate Judiciary Committee. While I had no prior intention of viewing these proceedings, I somehow found myself tuning in at the very beginning of Ms. Ford’s testimony—and ended up watching the entire thing. Oh My Goodness And what a remarkable contrast …
Adverbial
Is it okay to fall in love with an adverb? In the following passage--a verse from the Bon/Buddhist text Authenticity of Open Awareness, as cited in Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen, Bon and the Logic of the Nonconceptual--it's "thinglessly" that creates that little flutter in my heart: playfully, delightfully :) Although [unbounded awareness] is not an external object, through the mere indication of …
The Setting Sun
Looking at the sun going down, the eyes of Copernicus had seen the world turning. Looking at a glass of still water, the eyes of Boltzmann saw atoms and molecules frenziedly moving. ~ Carlo Rovelli, from The Order Of Time Attended a lecture, last night, by Buddhist scholar/practitioner Anne C. Klein. The teaching was rooted in the deep poetic wisdom of Longchenpa's The Basic Space Of …