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Tag Archives: impermanence
Emptiness
Our entire lifetime: a short line drawn in water; soon nothing remains. It doesn’t matter what ink or how much pressure you use. What seems important doesn’t leave an impression in time’s vast ocean. Each of us is a mirage; … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged emptiness, haiku, impermanence, Japanese verse forms, mindfulness, waka, water
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So Many Words
So many words for such a thing so smallit barely leaves a ripple at the shore,and all its no-so-grand comings and goingsare little noticed after, or before. So brief an episode is this thing life:a moment’s breath in an eternal … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged breath, emptiness, iambic pentameter, impermanence, life, poetic forms, sonnet
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The Tuition of Wisdom
True knowledge is free; it grows like roadside flowers. Who can afford it? The trick is letting it go so it can keep blossoming. Paying tuition at such a school is so hard: you owe attention. You can’t write a … Continue reading
Change and transformation
“We’re mistaken to think there are things that exist solidly within the flow of experience that is our life. We think of who we are as something that’s permanent, that continues over time in the same unchanging form, independent of … Continue reading
Posted in Planes
Tagged change, Dzogchen Ponlop, impermanence, perception, Rebel Buddha, transformation
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