Reading at Koloa practice 03/12/2010
We have not come here to take prisoners,
But to surrender ever more deeply
To freedom and joy.
Category > Eastern Inspiration
We have not come here to take prisoners
I Want Both of Us
Reading at Koloa practice March 1, 2010
I Want Both of Us
To start talking about this great love
As if you, I and the Sun were all married
And living in a tiny room,
Helping each other to cook,
Do the wash,
Weave and sew
Care for our beautiful
Animals.
We all leave each morning
To labor on the earth’s field.
No one does not lift [...]
Be Like Water…
Reading from Koloa Hong Wan JI practice 2/08/2010
Water changes shape and even form,
but keeps its essence.
River changes water and even course, but keeps its essence.
Trust the unchanging in changing.
Be like water and river.
Moving and staying,
changing and unchanging
Know and soften
Soften and change
Change and endure
Be like water
Think like river
A Good Traveler
Read at Koloa Hong Wan JI – 2/08/2010
A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.
I Have Come Into this World to See
I have come into this world to see this:
The sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of anger
The Sun Never Says
Reading at the end of most all practices:
“Even after all this time
The sun never says
to the Earth
“You owe me.”
Look what happens
with a Love like that
It lights the whole sky
–Hafiz
Which is Worth More?
Reading at Bodhi Tree 12/30/2009
Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands,
or your own genuine solitude?
Freedom, or the power over and entire nation?
A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given to you.
—Jallal al-Din Rumi
16 Observations
Koloa practice reading 12/21/2009
•Everything changes.
• We have just enough problems, not too many or too few.
• Even a mistaken approach is not a waste of time.
• Formal education is to explain what is and what it means. Actual education is to let it be, whatever it is, without explanation.
• Wherever you go, you will find [...]
Heartbreak
Reading at Anara Spa 12/04/09
Teacher: We want you to learn these teachings so deeply that they lie upon your heart
Student: Why don’t you just put them in our hearts?
Teacher: That’s not our job. We just place them on the surface. Then, when your heart breaks, they fall in.
—Buddhist story, source unknown
Gems # 2
Readings at our various locations on the island
Hiding in this cage of visible matter
Is the invisible
Life Bird
Pay attention to her
She is singing
Your song
—Kabir
