Stillness

Stillness is like an old friend within our deepest Self. My first glimpses of deep stillness happened during childhood and adolescence. Those moments seemed more important than the rest of life. Perhaps everyone encounters stillness but few talk about and share its power and beauty. Among places and situations where I found deep stillness:

• A freshly painted room in my parents house. I was maybe 4 or 5 years old.

• Walking home from school looking and feeling each step along the way.

• In my room, as an adolescent, slowly watching the twilight turn to night.

• By the ocean shore looking toward the horizon.

• First formal meditations sitting on the floor.

Cultivating stillness, which is also called "meditation" or "mindfulness" is an important medicine for the ills of our times. Why not take a few minutes, now, to be still? Mind quiet, body motionless, breath steady. Neither grasping nor rejecting what is happening all around, just let it all "pass through you". Stillness. Stillness. Upon returning to activity - one may be blessed with a sense of greater ease in life.

Meditation, Nonviolence, Peace

To sit, to meditate is 

already making a statement

for nonviolence and peace. 

It's inside-out; as within, so without. 

Peace begins right here 

as the inner knots are untied; 

and, love unfolds.

Money and God

For several years I gave an annual talk for The Applied Philosophy Institute in Sunnyvale, California. One year the topic was "Money and God." Almost everyone in the audience had deep feelings about the subject. I struggled to bring God and money together in the same breath. One businessman wanted to make it simple. He said, "Money is God. Anything you can say about God, you can also say about money."

"What do you mean?" I responded. "Well, think of the traditional statements about God," he said. "Okay. God is love. God is everywhere. God is infinite. God is all-powerful," I remarked.

"That's it!" he said with delight. "Money is love. Money is everywhere. Money is infinite. Money is all-powerful. People treat you as if they love you when you have lots of money. Everywhere I go there's money -- an ATM machine or bank in every part of the world. Money is so powerful we go to war and give up our lives for it. And, since money is abstract, we can create infinite numbers out of it. Therefore Money is like God, Money is God."

This businessman was serious. He was also deeply disturbed by his position. He was admitting an awesome truth that most people would not take seriously.

Ultimately, all investments start with how we use time. Some say "Time is money." Time is more fundamental then money, and a little closer to God and life. Life is the time we have, so use time well.

Today. Today. Today.

Today. Today. Today.

What is today?

A passing moment in "our" universe.

A travelling point in space-time

wrapped up with our

individual lives

always moving on to

a future. Hello today!

I am here now. 

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

are often

disguised as

painful endings.

    ~ attributed to Lao Tzu ~ 

Quantum Strangers

Sliding into spacetime
Again quite lost
Feeling okay with uncertainty
Of nonlocality 
Knowing that it's all entangled 
Like an Argentine tango 
Between two strangers 

Trapped in a Back Room

SOMETIMES A FLY GETS TRAPPED in a back room, attracted to the glass windows. Eventually it dies, not seeing the way out through a darker hallway to an open window. Humans get attached to the bright lights, big billboards, loud sounds, and media distractions. Eventually they can't change of direction back to the quiet voice of truth. They die unfulfilled. ∆

Dawn Breaks

A day of darkness
Lost, lost in worry dreams
Until dawn breaks
Across the night skys

Whispers Of Eternity

Live in Direct Relationship to Reality

Turn away from

books, ideas, and theories. 

Enlightenment can only be realized

by living in direct relationship to reality.

Books, ideas, and theories 

don't go deep enough.

Hold the Morning

Hold the morning in your hand

Lift your eyes up to the sky

Timeless void surrounds our days

Being Lost

Who are We

Who are we? Golden rays of light moving around on the Earth's surface. Mostly, we forget how wonderful and wondrous we are. Sometimes we act in the worst of ways. But most of the time it is loving kindness. Don't forget that. Don't believe the news. We are creatures born of love, born to share millions of moments of kindness with one another. This is so. If not, we would not be here today.

(Haku’s personal note: I apologize for such a long delay but quarantine is warping my sense of time)

Stop, start

Think of all
of it as One
thing that is
not a thing.
Stop, start.
You don’t
know anything
in completeness.
You just are.

Spontaneity

Spontaneity as a result of meditation practice. Meditation class talk.

Going Toward the Light

Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present

"Death is not an event in 

life: we do not live to 

experience death. If we take 

eternity to mean not 

infinite temporal duration 

but timelessness, then 

eternal life belongs to those 

who live in the present." 

~ ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~~

Face reality

Face reality 

Live in truth 

Be honest with yourself 

Integrity deepens

Alignment with Being

Most people live in a fog - moving between tasks, situations, and pleasures. Often in a mental fog of remembrances and fantasies. Live life fully. This could just be the only life you know. Pre-life and after-life are matters of speculation and faith. A full life is not measured in number of years, but by depth of understanding and experience. Some die young but had rich lives. Others live long but accomplish little. It's not how long we live, but how we live that counts. We become happy, wealthy and wise in proportion to our alignment with being.

What a World

WHAT A WORLD we created! So much technological progress. I see glitter at the expense of much noise and endless distraction. Teaching meditation becomes a noble calling. Some say this is the bottom of the Kali Yuga - the darkest moment of the darkest age. It’s exactly at such extreme moments that things begin to turnaround.