Your life is a gift.
Open it.
Learn who you are,
who you were made to be,
the fullness of your potential.
The Prophets came
to guide us in these things,
so I would say
that what God desires
is for us
to fully be. [...]

The reality is that I’m standing on a plain of gold, with a golden shovel, looking out through eyes and mind of gold. Dig anywhere, and I should find it. But I see dirt, always dirt, and then the question comes up: Where is it? It’s not really that I need to find the right spot to dig: but an [...]

Looking at the self,
which at first appears
to be a constant entity
moving through time,
we discover it’s more
of a standing wave form:
no “self” that persists –
only actualized by water
ever flowing through.
What is there to “be” enlightened?
Nor does the Ocean ever cease
its surge and flow. [...]

bamboo swings
green eyes widen
the crack of dawn [...]

To me Zen is freedom
from unnecessary necessity;
and in that freedom,
time for other things.
No longer a stone
skipping across the surface,
I sink to the bottom
and hold the lakebed down.
Though both are a fantasy:
the one at rest
the other in frantic motion. [...]

I felt warm sunlight
draped around my shoulders
and a peace settled in
that was not of me.

This body has no importance.
It is but a vehicle.
A window into the world.
It serves the mind
But can also cage the mind.
It roots us, grounds us,
Limits our thinking
To one place, one time,
A single series [...]