The Great Way isn't difficult for those who are unattached to their preferences. Let go of longing and aversion, and everything will be perfectly clear....The mind of absolute trust is beyond all thought, all striving, is perfectly at peace, for in it there is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow.
—SENG-TS'AN, Zen patriarch (???-606)
Sleep - While we're awake, we share one universe, but in sleep we each turn away to a world of our own. (Nov 05)
Don't Know Mind - Intensity baby teaches us don't-know-mind (Nov 05)
Featureless Landscape? - Life at your feet on the High Plains (Sept 05)
Dung and You - What is the dung? What is the beetle? (Aug 05)
Impermanence - Where are you? Every breath is an exchange with the rest of the world. (July 05)
Big Sky - Sky as a metaphor for mind: empty, boundless, and fundamentally pure, even when obscured by clouds (thoughts and emotions). (June 05)
Monks Rock - this rock, in Myanmar, is said to be held up by a precisely placed hair of the Buddha (June 05)
Reading Faces - always interesting to examine strangers' faces in repose (June 05)