If there is a lot of energy coursing through the body, imagine the body as a wide container where the energy is allowed to bounce around like a ping pong ball. Accepting it like this can take away the extra agitation of fighting the restlessness.
i heard that you missed your connecting flight
to the Blue Ridge Mountains, over near Tennessee
you’re ever welcome with me anytime you like
let’s drive to the countryside, leave behind some green-eyed look-alikes
so no one gets worried, no
Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.
now deep in a forest
losing all thought of spring
and nothing can help me remember
and i’m going nowhere fast
a darker day has holed at last
deep in a dream i set the calmness to spinning
and your love has come too late
away from the garden gate wake me up when the blue bells are ringing
Through daily practice and attending fellowship, the lifestyle will take care of itself. When we engage in daily practice of the nembutsu as a ‘living’ practice, and not just an intellectual exercise, naturally, our lives will be transformed into the substance of shinjin, the experience of awakening.
every chance we got
we were down by the river all night long
when the sun came up i was sneakin’ her home
and draggin’ my butt to work
with the smell of her perfume on my shirt
i’d be on the tractor she’d be on my mind
with that sun beatin’ down on this back of mine
just when I thought it couldn’t get no hotter
i fell in love with the farmer’s daughter
we got married last spring whoa and there ain’t no better life for me
Buddha-nature can also be understood as the primordial reality from which phenomenal reality springs or the changeless reality empty of only that which is other than itself.
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
out from my window across from the city
i have what’s considered a good view
two blocks from the subway, three from the fountain
where i walk to break in new shoes
she stands on the sidewalk just waving at taxis
like horses in parades in passing
i ask where she’s headed she tells me,
Ohio, i’ve not seen my mother in ages it’s been a long time, a real long time.
Do not live in the world, In distraction and false dreams. Outside the dharma. Arise and watch. Follow the way joyfully, Through this world and beyond…
so i tried to erase it
but the ink bled right through
almost drove myself crazy
when these words led to you
and all these useless dreams of living alone like a dogless bone…
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Edmonton, Alberta ~ dawn in Terwillegar Park ~ May 2015.
Modesty is the foundation of all virtues. Let your neighbours discover you before you make yourself known to them. A noble heart never forces itself forward. Its words are as rare gems, seldom displayed and of great value.
i am a prairie girl straight to the bone, oh i’ll cut you off on the drive back home i spend my winters alone yeah there’s just no place quite like home
On a trail atop White-Crane’s green cliffs, My recluse friend’s home in solitude, Step and courtyard empty; water and rock, Forest and creek free of axe and fish trap. Months and years perfect old pines here. Wind and frost keep bitter bamboo sparse. Gazing deep, ancestral ways my own again…
give it time and we wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry
and we sleep in your dust because we’ve seen this all before
culture fades with tears and grace leaving us stunned hollow with shame
we have seen this all seen this all before
many tribes of a modern kind doing brand new work same spirit by side
joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine ancestral twine
slowly it fades
slowly we fade
spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, seen this all before she has, seen this all before…
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