Posts Tagged "choices"
First Lesson
Reading at Koloa practice 12/19/2011 Lie back daughter, let your head be tipped back in the cup of my hand. Gently, and I will hold you. Spread your arms wide, lie out on the stream and look high at the gulls. A dead- man’s float is face down. You will dive and swim soon enough where this tidewater ebbs to the sea. Daughter, believe me, when you tire on the long thrash to your island, lie...
Read MoreJust When I Doubted…
Reading at Anara Spa -11/17/2011 Passion's Core by Linaji Just when I doubted myself, Just when I ’bout gave up A light shone thru. Scathes my lack of intention Attacks my dullard fears Presses me on And pulls the reigns of attention Back from unconscious years. Un-zips my eyes Sore from looking the other way Unfurls my feelings And they sing out a chorus of Doris Day. Ohhh I...
Read MoreWhich is Worth More?
You're not Alone...One Mind one Heart by Linaji Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or the power over an 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...
Read MoreFather’s Day
How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream. He’s in your power. You twist his arm. But you’re not sure it was he that stole your money. You feel calmer and you decide to let him go free. Or he’s the one, as in a dream of mine, I must pull from the water, but I never knew it or wouldn’t have done it, until I saw the street-theater play so close up I was moved to ...
Read MoreCertainty
Reading at Waimea practice 05/24/2011 Certainty undermines one’s power, and turns happiness into a long shot. Certainty confines. Dears, there is nothing in your life that will not change -especially all your ideas of God. Look what the insanity of righteous knowledge can do: crusade and maim thousands in wanting to convert that which is already gold into gold. Certainty can become an...
Read MoreThe Natural Freedom of Mind
Reading at Waimea practice 04/19/2011 Since the One Mind, pure from the beginning-less beginning and with no need to grasp things other than itself and has nothing to do with an intermediary of with a fixed plan: The individual might as well be happy Since awareness has no objective relationship of any kind, no specific direction or focus The individual might as well love everyone. Since...
Read MoreA Good Traveler
Reading at Koloa Hong Wan Ji- 02/17/2011 A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the master is available to all people and doesn’t reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn’t waste...
Read MoreTo Waiting
Smoking her piano by Linaji Reading at Koloa practice 01/16/2011 You spend so much of your time expecting to become someone else always someone who will be different someone to whom a moment whatever moment it may be at last has come and who has been met and transformed into no longer being you and so has forgotten you meanwhile in your life you hardly notice the world around you lights...
Read MoreDoing from the Soul
Reading from Koloa Practice 01/03/2011 “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” “Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.” “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” “The universe...
Read MoreA Musing….
Reading at Koloa and Anara 10/26/09 Funny isn’t it…. How we’ve chosen To be… Led, shown, guided, taught, illumined, inspired…. While others choose to be…. Shoved, tricked, cajoled, re-routed, mystified, shocked, mocked, De-frocked… For as many paths, There are as many Directions… Up, down, this-a-way, that-a-way, in, out, time-linear, time-none And for as many directions...
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