26 Aug The Way Of The Way 3
The past is a comic and tragic illusion our mind creates. When we believe the illusion is real, our experience of the present is also an illusion....
25 Aug Lao Tzu 1
“He who speaks does not know, he who knows does not speak.” For those who know it, a truly ethereal experience is ineffable; as describing it would end it and they would never want it to end. Those who know the experience of awakening or a moment of enlightening cannot describe it, for it is beyond words. Only sounds like "oh...
24 Aug The Way Of The Way 168
Anything and everything are essentially nothing before they are what they are whatever they are. Moreover, as anything and everything constantly change, they are whatever they are but temporarily and then again nothing. As anything and everything are nothing before and after they are something but for an instant, maybe they're also nothing when we perceive them as something; that is, whatever we think they are is an illusion sustained by our mind...
23 Aug Political Parties
Political parties are like flavors at an ice cream shop. We often busy ourselves deciding which flavor we want without considering whether we're allergic to its ingredients or looking at whether the shop is clean....
22 Aug The Way Of The Way 166
When we perceive the world as a duality, it's our self and all the rest; often a tiring interaction at best. To truly rest, we need become one with the rest. When truly at rest, we are at peace. Peace is the nothingness that remains after we forget about everything, our self and all the rest. In nothingness, we are one with the nothingness; at rest, at peace. Alternatively, when we abandon our self, we become one with what remains: one with everything (all the rest). Then, without the tiring friction of duality, we are at rest, at peace. Peace can be had in a place of nothingness or when we are one with everything. Either way, there is no self which is what tires us....
20 Aug The Way Of The Way 167
Nothing is as wonderful a gift as the present of life. Those who are distracted by wanting something more do not appreciate the present....
19 Aug The Way Of The Way 165
Life is a multi-ring circus of dreams unfolding simultaneously; good dreams, bad dreams; whether good or bad determined by the dreamer. Awakening is the realization that we are dreaming. Awakened, we are grateful for whatever our dream and make the best of it. When life is not an engaging, fascinating and wonderful experience, we are sleeping....
18 Aug Peace Pilgrim
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.” Our attitude forms our experiences. Peace Pilgrim...
17 Aug Clouds
I see all sorts of animals up in the clouds, their shapes changing as the wind blows. Some are angry some are happy and with some it's hard to read their minds. Only when I climb a distant mountain I get above the clouds and realize the clouds are just clouds....
16 Aug Niccolò Machiavelli
"[S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved." When others fear us, they don't attack us; thereby fear provides us a certain level of safety. However, fear can turn into aggression as a cornered rat can leap to bite us in the jugular or starving peasants revolt against their king. Love is unconditional. Moreover, those we love we treat as we wish to be treated. Thus, when we are loved, though we may not necessarily be liked, we never need worry of coming into harm's way as a consequent of the actions of someone who loves us. Hence, it is safer to be loved than feared....