04 Feb

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean." -- Rumi...

22 Jan

Posted at 11:17h in Koan

The enlightened experience life very differently than others, but know they are not different which is what makes them different....

06 Nov

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough." -- Lao Tzu   It's easy to satisfy our needs, but not our desires....

16 Apr

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." -- John 1:1, The Gospel of John.   God is the Everything; the now and before and after the now. In the space before the now, there are no things; only energy, the invisible face of God. The word is sound/vibration/energy: God. In the beginning was energy, the energy was with God, the energy was God....

16 Jan

Posted at 06:02h in Koan

"What we see everywhere but rarely notice is our selves." -- Masako Nishi...

02 Jan

Posted at 10:15h in Koan

"If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!" -- Kotzker Rebbe   When Moses encountered God in the desert, Moses asked God who he was. God said: "I am what I am." That is, God is indescribable because God is the Everything. Any other description implies God is one thing and not another; the antithesis of God. If I am what I am and you are what you are, I and you are God. However, if I define myself in terms of what I am not (you), I am not God. If you are God, I treat you accordingly; as I treat myself....