Tag: joy

It is not what happens to you, but what you think about what happens to you that creates your sorrow. You have heard these words, probably hundreds of times, if you have been on the spiritual path any time at all, but have you ever really integrated these words into your conscious awareness. Do you… Continue reading Thinking is Dangerous

A friend of mine recently asked me, “Why do you write and share your thoughts with people.” He added, “People are just going to do what they do, regardless of whether or not you offer a better idea. Plus,” he continued, “you said no one reads your blog anyway.” I replied that I share what… Continue reading Why I Share my Thoughts

One of the things I absolutely love about living this moment to moment experience of life are all the serendipitous things which happen in my life. Many are daily and sometimes they are even hourly. Friday, after I had created my blog post on remembering, I went back to work clearing out old emails from… Continue reading The Serendipitous Life is the Only Life for Me

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

For the rest of this week we are going to look at a writing called The Hsin Hsin Ming — Verses on the Faith Mind by Chien-chih Seng-ts’an, the Third Zen Patriarch. I would share it all, in this one post, but it is thirteen pages long and by the time I add my comments… Continue reading Examination of the Hsin Hsin Ming – Day One

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 …

Life is a journey, filled with myriad destinations:  some near, some far, some purposeful, others surprising. The journey itself is a paradox: Nothing is as it seems. The senses betray us, though not on purpose. The mind misleads, though without any malice or intention. Many advise us not to think; but being alive requires an… Continue reading Life is a Journey, Not an Obstacle

Until we know God we will always be hungry. The type of knowing I am speaking of is Gnosis. It is a knowledge which is felt and understood by the heart and soul, not by the head. The brain, the source of our human mind, will recognize that something, unnamed, is missing and will seek… Continue reading Life’s Greatest Mystery

When I write or talk about learning to love ‘what is’ I seem to find a lot of resistance. People hear me say that and they imagine themselves doormats to life, just lying down and letting whatever comes roll right over them. That is not what loving ‘what is’ means to me. It does not… Continue reading Freedom Through Loving What Is