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The Seeker’s Lament
For forty years I’ve sought some kind of truth and come up empty-handed, more or less. What dreams I held like treasures in my youth have lost their gleam; my hands, their tenderness. The journey has not gone as I … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, emptiness, enlightenment, failure, journeys, seeking, struggles
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Samadhi
Fumbling to ecstacy One nerve cell at a time Approaching some nirvana Piecemeal, by the inch, sublime At the end of fingertips Extended like a drawl Until the whole skin breathes in each moment’s alcohol From the toes along the … Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, devotion, enlightenment, epiphany, Nirvana, presence, relativity, samadhi
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Here-itic
Here. This is the sound of the world becoming whole: one breath at a time. Here. This is the way that the world becomes awake: one eye at a time. Here. This is the place where birth and death coexist: … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, enlightenment, presence, spirituality, time, wholeness
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Box Haiku
Inside the small box that is our experience there is nothing new: the folded edges let in small amounts of light to read old news by. But the lid is loose — a gentle push opens it; look, there is … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, connection, enlightenment, haiku, ignorance, Japanese verse forms, limitations, perceptions
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Beyond the Boundary
Of all the little things that seem to matter, and petty squabbles that divide our time in episodes of silence between chatter and spaces marking off what’s left behind, the biggest part of what remains unspoken is that which each … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, boundaries, daily poems, division, enlightenment, perceptions, sonnet
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Krishnamurti
If you would seek the truth, you must be willing to seek beyond the questions, simple facts, leave behind stale conceptions, and stand naked, alone, aware of just this very moment. Happiness is not based upon others, it cannot be … Continue reading
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Tagged enlightenment, humanity, Jiddu Krishnamurti, observations, truth
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