you discover your own path at the end, if there is one
From the category archives:
human living
when does the past become the present and the present, the future?
the illusion of certainty is just that, an illusion
mortality appears
when the obituaries
could be yours
suffering includes the vain hope that right now things can be other than they are
having the “truth” won’t set you free, but it will blind the hell out of you
living always occurs, only occurs, in the present
the denial of aging is the denial of death
good friends are love in the Way made flesh
suffering comes from our attachment to preferences (or desires), not their occurrence
(with thanks to Seng-ts’an and Richard Clarke)
like autumn leaves I am dying,
much more slowly,
no less certainly
only now!
then is now!
only now!
we act on our desire, not our reason; without desire, nothing happens
with thanks to Humberto Maturana
the self is good for distinguishing oneself from others, other than that…
the “law of karma” is a story told to encourage people who behave badly to behave better
being present, being here now, is not a choice or an act of will, but an outcome in living best characterized as a gift
we can accept our pain without liking it even though the pain remains until it, as all things, passes
sprinting amidst the concerns of everyday life we miss both the finite and the infinite now
for good or ill human beings can believe just about anything . . . I know, I have
there’s nothing to do but what we’re doing until the next moment when we’ll be doing that, whatever that may be
looking forward into the stream of living,
I see hopes, dreams, plans, expectations;
looking back, it’s all the luck of the drift
a way doesn’t show up in the walking,
it shows up in the telling
a way is only a way afterwards
and then only in the telling –
never in the living