- Unknown
“No Mud, Not Lotus”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
“The harder the journey the deeper the
purification”
- Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrier
Picking up the early morning newspaper the pilgrim read of the furious unpredicted and unexpected storm that wasn’t as unusual as he thought. The storm came and went just like unpredicted and unexpected storms in the past. Some streets were flooded. The dreams of a few families disappeared with the retreating street flowing like rivers . Other families had tree split roofs of their lonely homes .
Page two of the paper had a hidden story of he 17th
Dalai Lama at a local college. The Dalai Lama spoke of how once he entered a
grocery store and noticed his favorite fruit for sale. That sumptuous gift of
paradise looked fresh and ready to tempt any sentient being and be enjoyed. The
Dalai Lama checked his secret pocket and realized he had more than enough to
purchase and then savor his favorite fruit. Without a breath the money slipped back underneath his
crimson robe as he strolled slowly
smiling out of the store . He is one who has the awareness that he did not need
that piece of fruit to experience joy and peace. The pilgrim grabbed for his
journal ,lifted his broken foot wrapped in a protective boot and began to
reflect and write:
“ There
is nothing like the sounds and salt aired smells of a sanctifying summer rain,
chimes softly ring blessing the moment as the birds' sweet refrain welcomes the
nourishment and the new day.
As
the rain finishes her work the serene soaked earth solemnly celebrates the
sacred re-christening as all that is alive at that moment flourishes. Sometimes
distractions bring one to a path where one needs to be...sometimes distractions
get one off the true path... being present helps us know the difference. No
thing can bring one happiness or peace. They say ‘The moment now is called present
as it is a sacred gift of the
divine.’
Moving
to the beach was supposed to bring me closer to heaven and yes , sometimes it
feels like paradise and sometimes it doesn’t . I can stand on the shore being filled by the wonder
when a rogue wave raises itself at my body and knocks me down and
just as I get myself up standing upright again there is another wave knocking
me down again . The gulls seem to laugh as they glide by while sandpipers seem
to chase the comings and goings of the waves ignoring my situation.
The
tide comes in and the tide goes out. The sunrises and the sun sets. All things
must pass right?”
Pausing and breathing …he whispers
“ Ah,
Impermanence..,”
***********************************************************
"If a problem can be solved there is
no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no
good."
- 17th Dalai
Lama
“You admire the man who pushes his way
to the too the top in any walk of life, while we admire the one who abandons
his ego.”
- Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich
Harrier
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you
will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much
more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of
the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was
dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe
you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall
we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly
Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all
these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Matthew 6:25-34
Turn! Turn! Turn ! –
The Byrds
Across the Universe –
The Beatles
Main Theme the Movie
The Mission- (Ennio
Morricone)
3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a
time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and
a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a
time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones
together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time
to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence,
and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time
of peace.
9 What profit hath he that work in that wherein he labors?
- Ecclesiastes 3
The
Buddha's Last Instruction
by
Mary Oliver
"Make
of yourself a light"
said
the Buddha,
before
he died.
I
think of this every morning
as
the east begins
to
tear off its many clouds
of
darkness, to send up the first
signal—a
white fan
streaked
with pink and violet,
even
green.
An
old man, he lay down
between
two sala trees,
and
he might have said anything,
knowing
it was his final hour.
The
light burns upward,
it
thickens and settles over the fields.
Around
him, the villagers gathered
and
stretched forward to listen.
Even
before the sun itself
hangs,
disattached, in the blue air,
I
am touched everywhere
by
its ocean of yellow waves.
No
doubt he thought of everything
that
had happened in his difficult life.
And
then I feel the sun itself
as
it blazes over the hills,
like
a million flowers on fire—
clearly
I'm not needed,
yet
I feel myself turning
into
something of inexplicable value.
Slowly,
beneath the branches,
he
raised his head.
He
looked into the faces of that frightened crowd.
Amdg
Copyright 2016 All Rights Reserved JF Sobecki LLC
No comments:
Post a Comment