Yesterday Katina and I, our two kids and Tutu (which means grandmother in Hawaiian) spent a couple of hours strolling in the early evening on Magic Island. I was just waking up, as I worked the previous night. The world for me takes a while to get into focus after a good day’s sleep. [...]
Do you pay regular visits to yourself?
April 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
“We meet at this appointed time. You’ve read where it says that Lovers pray constantly. Once a day, once a week, five times an hour, Is not enough. Fish like we Need the ocean around us. Do camel-bells say, Let’s meet again Thursday night? Ridiculous. They jingle Together continuously, Talking while the camel walks. [...]
Twenty minutes more or less
January 16, 2009 By 1 Comment
“My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I [...]
To be grateful is to be open to the mystery
November 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
We could say we are all searching for something. We sometimes receive a glimpse of a something which seems to be very much like the something we are looking for, but this something initally doesn’t act in a way we have been led to believe the something we are searching for would behave. This something [...]
the church of what's happening now
February 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Our son Kupai started Kindergarten last week. When I woke him up for school the other day I asked him how he had slept. He said that it was really frustrating that after we read him his story and kiss him goodnight he thinks about the events of the day. He explained that he thinks [...]
from dread to delight-faith in the present moment
February 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
As we approach the end of another year, perhaps we have become more aware of the passage of time. This awareness may pop up in the midst of rushing around, going to the post office, shopping, and then it’s buried. I get stopped in my tracks when I sit down to meditate, and remember, after [...]
so simple
February 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This whole thing is so simple. It’s our mind’s deeply entrenched habit to want to make this more complicated than it really is. And we get little help from many Buddhist scriptural and other tradition-bound sources–if anything, studying, reading or listening may leave us with nothing more than a headache. Meditation is simple resting: resting [...]
chasing phantom treasure
February 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
We find ourselves very often chasing phantom treasure. We keep falling for it–the future is where we will find this treasure. No matter how often you seem to “get” it, a new it to get pops up. Why don’t we consider the radical possibility that treasure is looking for treasure? If that is allowed as [...]
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