24 Hours

an empty vessel

an empty vessel

boundless space

a blanket of stars

deep self within 

Best guitar solo of all times - Mark knopfler

Time is not real

"Time is not real - only Love is real". 
At first this seems crazy to say, 
but if we look deeply into it
the truth is apparent.

To Become A Real Teacher

Rituals

Rituals allow
life to feel 
safe in an
uncertain 
world

Stand Still Now

Presencing

Sooner or later
meditation gives way
to presencing*

* https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/presencing

Every day, every hour

Every day, every hour,
the unexpected shows up
regardless of how well
planned our day.

How long will we live?

How long will we live?

How well will we be?

Telling stories,

that never happen.

Live with uncertainty.

That's reality. 

Poetry is ...

Poetry is
Mind medicine

Stephen Hawking: Trump stance could damage Earth - BBC News

Desiderata (music) - Child of the Universe

Meditation Q & A at UC Berkeley - April 1, 2015

Question and answer period after 20 minutes of meditation. The students asked remarkable questions. A pure joy to respond to them from the heart. It was more about life than just meditation. The sound quality is poor, but you still can hear the remarkable inspiring questions.

Panentheism

The following in a fascinating article from Wikipedia:

Panentheism (meaning "all-in-God", from the Ancient Greek πᾶν pân, "all", ἐν en, "in" and Θεός Theós, "God")^[1] is the belief that the divine pervades and interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond time and space. The term was coined by the German philosopher Karl Krause in 1828 to distinguish the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(1770–1831) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854) about the relation of God and the universe from the supposed pantheism of Baruch Spinoza.^[1] Unlike pantheism, which holds that the divine and the universe are identical,^[2] panentheism maintains an ontological distinction between the divine and the non-divine and the significance of both.

• In panentheism, God is viewed as the soul of the universe, the universal spirit present everywhere, which at the same time "transcends" all things created.
• While pantheism asserts that "all is God", panentheism claims that God is greater than the universe. Some versions of panentheism suggest that the universe is nothing more than the manifestation of God. In addition, some forms indicate that the universe is contained within God,^[2] like in the Kabbalah concept of tzimtzum. Also much Hindu thought – and consequently Buddhist philosophy – is highly characterized by panentheism and pantheism.^[3][4] The basic tradition however, on which Krause's concept was built, seems to have been Neoplatonic philosophy and its successors in Western philosophy and Orthodox theology.

Everyday is Totally Unique

Looking for a Moment of Stillness

Mahamudra Teaching

Gazing intently into the empty sky, vision ceases;
Likewise, when mind gazes into mind itself,
The train of discursive and conceptual thought ends
And supreme enlightenment is gained.

Like the morning mist that dissolves into thin air,
Going nowhere but ceasing to be,
Waves of conceptualization, all the mind's creation, dissolve,
When you behold your mind's true nature.

Pure space has neither colour nor shape
And it cannot be stained either black or white;
So also, mind's essence is beyond both colour and shape
And it cannot be sullied by black or white deeds.

The darkness of a thousand aeons is powerless
To dim the crystal clarity of the sun's heart;
And likewise, aeons of samsara have no power
To veil the clear light of the mind's essence.

Tilopa's Mahamudra Teaching to Naropa

Before the Deluge

Minnesota Winter Full Moon

Photo by Noreen Hautala