13 Apr Kotodama 50
The tail wagging the dog is like a tale wagging a man....
13 Apr Way Of Way 270
Upon awakening, no thing is like anything heretofore. Arousing our curiosity, every thing is enlightening. Filled with light, we emanate light; enlightening everything. No thing remains, but infinite forms of light....
12 Apr “Maybe They Don’t Mind”
Years back, on a frigid winter evening, my son, Max, 8, and I walked passed some homeless men setting up their cardboard sleeping surfaces under an overhang at the foot of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church on 5th Avenue and 55th Street in New York City. Seeing them with few liberties for food and shelter, I commented: "When you grow up, if you're not successful, this is a kind of prison where you might find yourself." Max replied: "Maybe they don't mind." "Wow! Role reversal. The homeless are free and I'm a prisoner of a bourgeois mindset," I said; followed by a good laugh that warmed the evening....
11 Apr Way Of Way 278
Tangible things and thoughts reflect light, enlightening us. The soul, emanating light, enlightens the universe....
10 Apr Koan 283
In the now, where time exists, every thing is either dead or alive. Before and after the now, a timeless space, things are both dead and alive; as everything is undifferentiated, possibilities. My mother died some ten years ago, but I see her clearly as a teenager from a place 100 light years away from here. As to where I am, here or at any of infinite there's, I do not know. So, who and what am I?...
09 Apr Way Of Way 268
When you love what you are, you can only be amused when someone doesn't love you; though it might be that they love what you are, but their self doesn't like your self....
05 Apr Way Of Way 263
Consciousness is the manifestation of the soul in the now; infinite realities. The self creates its reality from the soul's consciousness; like foveal vision painting a picture from peripheral vision. Yet, each self's reality is just a dot of paint in a painting of infinite dots. When dots come together, many paintings emerge. Merging the paintings into one is abstract expressionism; a painting that allows the self to transition into the soul seeing itself....