Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Alaskian air to Portland

3 buses on the runway to get to the hidden terminal 3.

1st plane

Lots of laptops

13

So here's the plane. I wish they had gone from 12 to 14 as they did in
my grandma's apartment.

Salt Lick

At Austin airport on way to Portland via LA. Sun is thinking of
setting and it will be many miles before my head hits a pillow. The
plane looks large.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009

...time for every purpose....




"To everything there is a season and time 
for every purpose under heaven." —Ecclesiates 3:1

Sunday, September 13, 2009

He restores my soul.


"The Lord is my sheperd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me besides still waters. He restores my soul." —23rd Psalm

Austin Car

Saturday, September 12, 2009

...the love you make.


"And in the end, the love you take 
is equal to the love you make." —The Beatles

Friday, September 11, 2009

...all selfishness disappears....


"For the mind in harmony with the Source,
all selfishness disappears with not
even a trace of self-doubt. 
You can trust the universe completely." 
—Trust in Mind

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

I only kiss your shadow


 
"And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our lives."
Simon & Garfunkle 

Monday, September 7, 2009

Firewood becomes ash....


 
"Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again.
Yet do not suggest that the ash is future and the firewood is past." —Eihei Dogen

Sunday, September 6, 2009

In the Expert's mind the possibilities are ....

 
"In the Expert's mind the possibilities are limited.
In the Beginner's mind the possibilities are endless."
—Shunryu Suzuki

Saturday, September 5, 2009

...a passing shadow gone so soon....

"We are here for only a moment,
visitors and strangers in the land
as our ancestors were before us. 
Our days on earth are like a passing shadow
gone so soon without a trace."
—1 Chronicles 29:14-16

Friday, September 4, 2009

A man and a woman and a blackbird are one.


 
I
"Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird."
IV
"A man and a woman
Are one,
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one."
—Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Thursday, September 3, 2009

...a dish of ice cream....


 
"The way we usually hold a relationship is that,
this relationship is ... out there, and it's supposed
to give me pleasure. In other words we make this
relationship into a dish of ice cream ... I've picked you 
out and you know what you are supposed to do."
—Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

Phil's Icehouse

Texas Icon!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Don't get tangled in the world.


 
"Don't get tangled in the world.
Don't lose yourself in emptiness.
Be at peace in the oneness of things.
and all errors will disappear by themselves."
—Trust in Mind

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

...the startingly different....


"Because there is the startingly different,
there are house cat and cow."
—Song of the Jewel Mirror

Monday, August 31, 2009

With that Moon Language


Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."
Of course you do not do this out loud, 
otherwise someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a 
full moon in each eye that is 
always saying,
With that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?
—Hafiz

Reflections on Talks on Buddha's Lists

During a recent Appamada Intensive our students gave talks on Buddha's lists. Here are my reflections on their talks.