truth unfolding

This

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:03:35 -0400

Can “this” be real? To think, really think, this question is to step out of thought into reality.

Think

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:17:00 -0400

Think only when needed. Never treat thinking as a casual habit. Save your energy for truth.

Who

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:36:36 -0500

Who am I today? Who was I yesterday? Who will I be tomorrow?

This little self, always changing. A bundle of feelings, thoughts, perceptions constantly looping back on itself.

There must be something “more”. But I cannot name it without turning it into a something. But it cannot be something. No. It’s a nothing that is infinite.

who am I?

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:51:28 -0500

I am no-thing at all.

university meditation class

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:28:00 -0500

Today saying good-bye to a group of 600 meditation students at the university. Pick up papers. Students do evaluations. Once upon a time, it was a dream to lead such a class. Now it was lived. My mother passed away in the middle of all this. I got sick. People helped out. Had to grow into this. Feeling gratitude.

here

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:19:17 -0500

I am.
I am here.
I am now.
Always here-now.
Today, stay here-now.
Keep it simple.

soundcloud: SoundClouder of the Day | Americ Azevedo | All Life...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:41:56 -0500

soundcloud:

SoundClouder of the Day | Americ Azevedo | All Life is Meditation

Meet today’s SoundClouder of the day, UC Berkeley computer science and meditation professor Americ Azevedo. Pioneer of online communities and education, Americ uses SoundCloud to share his poems and meditations on everyday life. Listen to his words of wisdom here

God's image

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:02:00 -0400

It is written - we are created in God’s image. Assume that’s true (even if there’s no-God). If “God is creator” and we are “images of God”: we are all creators. Something, even no-thing, created this cosmos here in our faces. Good news. Pick yourself up now - create something beautiful. Such as silence and peace.

Mother is dying

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:58:34 -0400

Mother is dying. Death’s door is open, ready for her to walk in. Again, I’m her little child. No ground. Where to stand? What does “a life” mean? Everything. A life means everything.

early morning fog

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:25:00 -0400

Looking out the window. The hotel across the street up on the hill fading into the early morning fog. I wait and wait and wait - for settled mind - for everything happening around a grounded still center.

haku told me

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:22:00 -0400

Haku told me to write here. I had withdrawn from writing. Treating it as an addiction, a contractive poison. But maybe in small doses - healthy for the soul - like graffeete in a dark alley.

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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:15:23 -0400

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Audio

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:38:11 -0400

fog

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:51:30 -0400

Today it’s fog outside my window.
No sunrise only gray mist.
I breathe in and out - relaxing
into open feeling space.
Good enough. Yes, good enough.

"See what is. Acknowledge it without judging it as right or wrong. See it clearly without judgment..."

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:30:59 -0400

“See what is. Acknowledge it without judging it as right or wrong. See it clearly without judgment and let it go. Come back to the present moment. From now until the moment of your death, you could do this. As a way of becoming more compassionate, as way of becoming less dogmatic, prejudiced, determined to have your own way, absolutely sure that you’re right and the other person is wrong, as a way to develop a sense of humor, to lighten it up, open it up, you could do this.”

- —Pema Chodron

I think the second line is most difficult, one constantly in tension with the mind.

(via trentgilliss)

so quiet

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:28:57 -0400

So quiet you hear silence between your thoughts.

wordslessspoken: Up early to do yoga at sunrise on the beach

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:48:49 -0400

wordslessspoken:

Up early to do yoga at sunrise on the beach

gravity

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:47:33 -0400

Gravity is the weakest force, yet it shapes the whole universe. It is like the Tao - weak, unassuming - yet shaping everything.

what next?

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:58:00 -0400

What next? Are we expecting IT to be different, new, interesting - perhaps, even exciting? The sense of of “what next” already tells us that we want to be away from here-now. There can be no “what next” in enlightenment!

breathe in the universe

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:22:08 -0400

With each inhale,
I breathe in the universe

With each exhale,
I breathe out the universe