Standing Still in Line

Standing Still In Line by americ
Meditation opportunities can happen everywhere - even while standing in line at the bank or in the deli. We give you a sense of how to go about this.

Failing and Flying ©

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that. Listened to her
while we ate lunch. How can they say
the marriage failed? Like the people who
came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.


By Jack Gilbert

Waterfall

Waterfall by americ
The waterfall as a metaphor for birth, living, death, and transcendence.

Om's and Breaths

Om's And Breaths by americ
When you make a phone call, you can create an opportunity to chant together one or more "om" sounds and do several slow long deep breaths. A good way to use some of the time together on the phone. NOTE: Long recorded pause near the end for the long quiet breaths. A few words follow.

Appreciation and Transcendence

Appreciation and Transcendence by americ
An exploration of consciousness. Appreciation and transcendence together as enlightenment.

No way out

No way out
Always here
Even in dreams

Pelican Sage

Hunting for knowledge

Surprised by wisdom

Surpassed with gratitude

Eternal Life

The eternal life is

given to those who

live in the present.

Ludwig Wittenstein
(as quoted in Zen Calendar, April 10, 2011)

Spring in Winter

Your Own Beauty - as seen by Ram Dass

“Your problem is you’re afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You’re too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You’d rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don’t.”

                                                                Ram Dass[1]

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[1] As quoted in the The Sun, January 2114, page 24. See http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/457/beginnings_blunders_eleventh_hour_rescues. 

A budget is a moral document

Crossing over

Two circles

Love of Oneself

As I began to love myself, I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health —food, people, things, situations and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism, today, I know it is, “LOVE OF ONESELF.”

~ Charlie Chaplin

Thanks

Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate the people you are grateful for in your life. There will be time tomorrow to forget; celebrating objects and wealth again. Celebrate what you have, not what you will get. Shine light on black friday. It will help everyone see.

the usual seat

take the usual seat
sit, get ready, wait
it all unfolds as it is

Is it true?

Lost It

yesterday I lost it
nothing much, only ego
can't find it anymore

Clapping here

no thought no sound
one hand clapping here
breath by breath here and now

Right now

Today, right now, is a new beginning. Let go of yesterday. 
Now is time becoming timeless.