08 May Love 1
I am strong with my pain but not with yours....
08 May Love 2
I don't know me. I don't know you. Only know us....
08 May Can’t See The Forest For The Trees
Entangled in the now we're oblivious to its beauty which is clear from before and after the now....
06 May The Way Of The Way 130
Heaven is peaceful and those in heaven want to keep it that way. So they only let into heaven only those who live peaceful lives on Earth. After death, there may or may not be heaven and hell. But it's of no matter as those living peaceful lives on Earth are already in heaven....
05 May Kotodama 1
We are either a piece or at peace. As a piece of the universe, we are apart and separate from the other pieces. This is duality, which in turn causes stress. When we realize we are the universe, we are at peace....
05 May The Way Of The Way 129
The universe is nothing before it expresses itself as everything. We are one with nothing and everything but not one with every thing....
03 May Blind Love
Years back, a friend, Joe, called to announce he was engaged and wanted me as the best man at his wedding. Joe was 6'4" and his fiancé, Diane, wasn't noticeably shorter. Physically, they saw eye to eye; otherwise, a completely incompatible couple. Before Diane, Joe was not a pretty drunk for many years. He went sober coincidentally with starting a relationship with Diane. While no longer drunk, as he and Diane were clearly incompatible, he still couldn't see straight. I advised him against the marriage; told him he was better off as a drunk. He said I didn't understand, he was madly in love with Diane. I said that was the problem, love kept him from seeing clearly. It turned into a very acrimonious marriage; screaming and fighting. Yet from a distance it was funny juxtaposing the image of Joe mad about Diane to Joe mad with Diane. They didn't see the humor; exhausted, they finally called it quits five years later. With divorce rates high, there must be many couples like Joe and Diane suffering the consequences of blind love. If not for marriages based on blind love, the number of divorces would likely drop 70%. But divorce rates would rise because there would be even fewer marriages....
01 May The Way Of The Way 128
A common pastime is to explain the present in the context of past events and circumstances. While the explanations of experts and others sound cogent, they are mostly nonsense. If they were truly able to explain how the present unfolded, some of these geniuses would be able to predict the future; though none of them can. Of course, there are always individuals who do correctly predict the future. However, rarely more than once are they the same individuals....
30 Apr Kotodama 48
"M" is a vessel with one bucket, "W" a vessel with two buckets. We can do more than Me....
29 Apr Confucius 1
"If a man gives no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand." Until it is obvious, it is difficult to see things we haven't first imagined. Imagining dangerous scenarios allows us to see and avoid them before they become reality. While these imaginings are stressful, they are less stressful than experiencing them....