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Today we will complete our Examination of The Hsin Hsin Ming – Verses on the Faith Mind by Chien-chih Seng-ts’an, the Third Zen Patriarch. Lets jump right in: When all things are seen equally the timeless Self-essence is reached, No comparisons or analogies are possible in this causeless, relationless state. Consider movement stationary and the… Continue reading Examination of The Hsin Hsin Ming — Fifth and Final Day
Today we embark on Day Four of our examination of The Hsin Hsin Ming — Verses on the Faith Mind by Chien-chih Seng-ts’an, the Third Zen Patriarch. We are nearing the end of this effort to share and understand this profound writing. I expect we will finish this in our fifth and final installment on… Continue reading Examination of The Hsin Hsin Ming — Day Four
Today we will continue with the third installment of our examination of The Hsin Hsin Ming — Verses on the Faith Mind by Chien-chih Seng-ts’an, the Third Zen Patriarch. Consider this thought: The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing… Continue reading Examination of the Hsin Hsin Ming – Day Three
Today I was researching Hazrat Inayat Khan because I saw a quote of his, which really spoke to me, and realized that aside from knowing he was a Sufi, I knew very little about this mystic. As I searched the internet for PDF files, which I could download to read, I encountered the preface to… Continue reading Letting Go – – Questions, Thoughts
I always pay attention whenever I receive information from multiple sources in the same day. Sometimes the repetition comes by hearing something, perhaps in a podcast or on a YouTube video or maybe in a conversation. Other times I read two distinct authors or books in which the same information presents itself to me. The… Continue reading Authors Speaking to Me
Last night at Spiritual Cinema we watched the beautiful movie, I Am by Tom Shadyac. There were a couple of quotes, which inspired me, in the movie but I had not taken any notes, so I went to the director’s website to search for them. Instead of finding the exact ideas I was seeking I… Continue reading I Wish For You …
In Love Without Conditions, Reflections of the Christ Mind, Paul Ferrini asks: “Can you imagine a world in which each person understood that his only responsibility was to give and receive love?†Well, can you? The plain and simple Truth is this: Our ONLY responsibility in life is to be the LOVE that we are.… Continue reading Imagine Your Return to TRUTH
When I was twenty-one years old, I became a Police Officer. I had been a Police Cadet for two and one-half years and went on the streets one day after my twenty-first birthday. Within a week I was riding by myself, patrolling the West End of Kansas City, Kansas, which was the quiet side of… Continue reading One Man’s Evolution
This morning I spent some time trying to find the root cause of Friday the 13th as being an unlucky day. While there are numerous possible causes for this superstition, there is no concrete evidence as to the belief’s origin. It is not important how or why this day became notorious and synonymous with bad… Continue reading Happy Friday the 13th
The TRUTH is Unchanging We can never actually be lost; we can only appear to be lost because we have the freedom to forget what we are. Forgetting what I am does not, in any way, alter the Truth of my being. I once knew a woman with dementia. Every time I saw her I… Continue reading TRUTH is Unchanging