02 Oct Shunryu Suzuki
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." Experts think of possibilities based on their experience. The inexperienced are not likewise limited....
30 Sep Paradox 19
Once we know nothing, we know all there is to know; as every thing is nothing before it is what it is whatever it is....
29 Sep Haiku 54
After the purple crayon didn't taste like a grape, each grape tasted like no other....
27 Sep Haiku 53
Our pupils are both stars and black holes. As stars, like the sun, they reveal everything, yet whatever light enters them can never to be seen again....
26 Sep Haiku 52
Thank you sun for rising to awaken me, for without the sun I would be no one and not one....
23 Sep The Way Of The Way 335
The universe is made up of matter. Our world is made up of stories....
22 Sep Haiku 51
The sun is the eye of the soul, revealing all through our pupil, a black hole. As our iris filters the light of the sun, we each see differently which makes life fun....
21 Sep Who Am I?
I am who I am. I cannot be described otherwise as I am ever-changing. Thus, any description is illusionary, as I am different at the end of my description than the person I described at the start of my description. In other words, I am becoming; a verb, not a noun or adjective. I am eye. I am what I see, as the everything I see is me. I am the everything. I am a temporary manifestation of the eternal, endless and unchanging soul. The soul is the present, the pre-sent; what every thing is before and after it is what it is whatever it is in the now. The soul is beyond description, but it connects every thing as one thing, the everything. I am 1. I, like all seemingly independent things, am not an independent thing; just a facet of 1 thing, the everything. I am time. “I” is the most frequently used pronoun. “Am” is the most frequently used verb. “Time” is the most frequently used noun. Taken together, the most frequent sentence would be: “I am time.” That is, my identity is not one thing or another; it is constant change. I am God. God, to entertain itself, has created the play of life, "Terrific." God plays all the roles in the play, including the roles of those who don't recognize they are God. Those who haven't forgotten they are God are easily identified; they find other actors funny for taking their self seriously, for God loves to laugh at itself. Anyone who doesn't recognize I am God doesn't recognize they too are God. I am a self, Victor Teicher. My role in the play of life is preordained by my name. In German, Teicher is one who ponders. In English, where two vowels together are pronounced as the first vowel with the second vowel silent, Teicher would be pronounced as "teacher." In Japan, Teicher is pronounced as "taisha," the ancient shrine where all the gods meet annually. Victor is "conqueror." Since entering the play of life, I have long pondered the nature of consciousness which led me to where the gods reside. The revelations that have come my way are to teach us how to conquer the self (our personal identity) which imprisons us, precluding us from connecting with the soul and being one with the everything....
18 Sep Tao Te Ching — Verse 45
True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself. "True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself." What may not seem perfect in our mind is actually perfect as it is what it is whatever it is, undisturbed by our perception. "True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present." Even when we have all the possessions we may desire, we are still empty as the more we have the more we want. In the present (the pre-sent, where every thing is one thing before it is what it is whatever it is in the now), we are one with the everything; truly fulfilled and need nothing more. "True straightness seems crooked." The way of a meandering river is the straightest way to the ocean. "True wisdom seems foolish." Wisdom is the synthesis of many perceptions; some seemingly well reasoned, some silly. "True art seems artless." Art is all that is art-ificial, manmade. Yet, wonderful art doesn't seem artificial, contrived. "The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself." Being open, accepting and making the best of what comes our way leads us to harmony with all that's about us....