Can you allow this moment to be as it actually is? To unfold with every breath. To experience this unfolding as though you are living in the unknown. Can you love the unknown? Without trying to figure it out, understand why this is happening, or even deny it. Can you simply be in love with now? Fully accept the actuality as it is. I was doing some energy and sound healing work the other day, and the person I was... Read more
Happy Holidays to you and yours. “No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.” Zen Join me on Friday at 12:00p PST/3p EST on HEALING ISIS FINDING YOUR VOICE http://transformationtalkradio.com/meet_shows.php?id=5610 Read more
There is nothing new that be explained about the universe, which deep down inside can not be withheld from itself. There is nothing to be added, there is nothing to be taken away, there is no such thing as competition, comparing, the other, separation, shadows, all the rest it, but all them when met will allow their falseness to disappear. So for years this false identity has spoken up, “Excuse ME?” And it rest here and ends here. Call it... Read more
This song came on recently. I was fascinated by the energy, Vigor, and thanksgiving. So today writing this blog, I decided to look up the lyrics. HALLELUJAH defined as a act or praise for God. Whether you use nothingness, infinite, omnipotent, etc…in place of the word God, is up to you. The mere fact that it is a celebration for life is what is moving. Living now is ordinary, nothing extraordinary about it.Life is a celebration of the ordinary. Celebrate... Read more
I saw this and thought of my readers. Enjoy sweet lights that shine upon the earth… My Heart Burns Like Fire Soyen Shaku, the first Zen teacher to come to America, said: “My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes.” He made the following rules which he practiced every day of his life. In the morning before dressing, light incense and meditate. Retire at a regular hour. Partake of food at regular intervals. Eat... Read more
We all love a good story. I love this Zen story about a farmer. Sit with it throughout your day and see what speaks to you. Guidance comes from everywhere. MAYBE There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically. “May be,” the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned,... Read more
Is That So? The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life. A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child. This made her parents very angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin. In great anger the parents went to the master. “Is that so?” was all he would... Read more
Most of the focus on our society is on weight loss, body, image, and money. Sure the focus on health is wonderful. It allows one to release stresses of all kinds, and shape up. The original meaning of health was in reference to the mind not the body. So to keep up with our holiday message, can you keep off the emotional weight over the holidays. I recently posted a blog on self control which can help you and guide... Read more
Wonder is the beginning of the end of time. Time is started when you speak with labels of the meaning you are observing. In the observation is complete wonder. From wonder comes labels (time), from labels comes stories, and from stories comes beliefs, etc…To live simply in wonder is enough. That is reality. Is that not wonderful to live in wonder. Nothing to explain, figure out, no more questions, just unity with the universe. The mind asks, “How do I... Read more
Christians are celebrating advent right now, which simple means “the coming”. The birth of the Christ child. A moment celebrated by over one billion people world wide. Some of you reading this don’t have a religion, organization, group, or even spiritual place you go to. Lovely. So what can it mean then? I like that advent means “the coming”. Each of us is experiencing a new day when we wake up in the morning. So what is coming to you... Read more
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