Reflecting on the Wonderment
This planet and human life are truly precious gifts. A wonderment that overwhelms when reflected on. If we focus on the large cities we seem to be globally overpopulated but in reality people occupy a...
View ArticleBarking at the Moon
It would seem as tho I came into this world with a mind that’s predisposed for barking at the moon. Whether it’s in the sky or it’s reflection in a window. During the clear summer nights there are...
View ArticleResting in Ease
We exist in a continuous dynamic state of fluid transformation regardless of our awareness of it. It goes on in spite of ourselves or even our actions. But the key to enhanced living is the conscious...
View ArticlePinball
“and once again the world was spinning in greased grooves” -from Steinbecks ‘Cannery Row’ There’s a groove, we’ve all experienced the comfort of being in it and the discomfort when we slip out of it....
View ArticleReflecting On Fear Looming Large
Back in 1997 when I began a 9 year solitary retreat the first thing that I encountered in my introspections was the issue of fear. I wasn’t looking for it, I was simply in mind floating the moment and...
View ArticleA Philosophy and a Way to Ease
When I came across the following ancient Buddhist scriptures many years ago they had an immediate impact. The first became a significant part of my life philosophy while the second, when I was finally...
View ArticleWhisperings…effort.
There is but one thing in the basic space of all phenomena, a single vast expanse of empty open evenness and this is the natural state of existence. When we’re looking at phenomena arising we’re...
View ArticleWhisperings-the NeverAlone
There is but one embrace, we come into this precious life accompanied by the Divine companions. They are always with us regardless of where we go or what we do, a steadfast everpresence of...
View ArticleWhisperings-corn for gnosis
Eons ago when time was out of mind an ancient raven flew the winds to the moon and returned with gnosis. The moon whispered to the raven and the raven whispered to crow, this never ends. Now the...
View Articlewhispering: The Becoming
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be.” Lao Tzu I’m becoming a whittling hermit on an extended camping trip. Filed under: spiritual reflections-mystical whisperings Tagged: beliefs,...
View Articlewhisperings- The Kindness
Simplicity is the staircase to heaven and the steps are the steps of human kindness to all things. When you’re kind you go up a step when you’re unkind you go down two. Move through and into the...
View ArticleSometimes
Sometimes in order to truly engage you must dis-engage. Sometimes when you’ve spent so much time amongst those that don’t speak only silence has meaning. Sometimes you find yourself living...
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