Category Archives: 06/25/2020

Water seeks its own level, as does every other thing. The Cosmos and all there is therein are all looking for balance, harmony, equilibrium, stability, homeostasis, oneness within and without, peace, tranquility, serenity, the Elysian Fields, the Farther Shore, the Pure Land, Nirvana, Heaven… The stable state of a gyroscope, not static, but fluid inContinue reading “November 07-A, 2022”

No one can do better than doing the right thing at the right time in the right place and the right way. And no one can think that into place. Yet, it happens all of the time, and not nearly often enough. Because we have our mind on other things. Our attention wanders, our focusContinue reading “November 05-B, 2022”

How’s your balance and harmony? Your stability and security? Your integrity and sincerity? The three pairs work together to ground and center you and send you into each day in search of what needs to be done in each situation as it arises to do it and to bring yourself forth in so doing toContinue reading “November 03-B, 2022”

I hate every mistake, snafu, wrong turn, bad choice, etc. I have ever made, and there be many, yet, each one of them factored into who I am. Where would I be– who would I have become– without them? I am my adjustments/corrections/reversals/alterations. And you are yours. The way we have responded to the errorsContinue reading “November 02-B, 2022”

Do you think bears think of quitting? Or, considering their chances and thinking of folding up? Checking out? Because it’s just too much? Or pelicans? Chipmunks? Things aren’t going their way? Do you think they ever think about things not going their way? I think they just wake up and go meet the day, everyContinue reading “November 02-A, 2022”

What I know of monastic life consists of chants and prayers, sitting zazen, daily chores, eating and sleeping. It’s pretty much busy-work to keep their mind off their life in an “idle hands are the devil’s workshop” kind of way. How to fill the time is every teacher-master’s nightmare. There is only so much toContinue reading “November 01-C, 2022”

It is never any more difficult than stepping into the day and doing what needs to be done there. We clutter things up with plans and agendas, willing this, wanting that, wondering “When is it going to be our turn?”– waiting for something to happen that will be like a gift from some fairy godmother,Continue reading “November, 1st Week, 2022”

There is what we do to pay the bills, and there is what we pay the bills to do. What do you pay the bills to do? What do you live to do? Doing what is life itself for you? Spending your money in the right ways is important, and spending your time in theContinue reading “October 31-A, 2022”

Oscar Wilde said, “A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” Who talks constantly without saying anything. Robert Burns could have had them in mind with his, “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as ithers see us!” Seeing ourselves clearly, accurately, just as weContinue reading “October 29-B, 2022”

We have lost the “we-ness” that holds things together. There is no generic “we” that we can count on being there, anywhere. Who comprises the “we” we call we? Who are we talking about when we talk about “we”? I’m talking about the fifteen, or so, regular readers/responders who drop in to see what IContinue reading “October 27-A, 2022”

Everybody has their own story/stories, their own way of looking at things, thinking about things… It’s a wonder. I cherish a restaurant filled with people living their own life, more or less. And a movie theater, a football stadium, a continent, a planet… I want to listen to each of them as they say what’sContinue reading “October 26-A, 2022”

We are always awaiting the next thing, wondering how we will respond, waiting to see, trusting ourselves to pull another rabbit out of the hat and surprise ourselves again with the range of our repertoire and the depth of our capabilities. We are amazing. First grade–remember that? Talk about a shock to our system! YankingContinue reading “October 25-B, 2022”