Tag: spirituality
member name: John Doyle
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April 10, 2006 07:55 AM EDT --
If lethal injections are your thing
The Eyes of Texas is the song you sing.
'Cause with gurney and needle we dispose
Of killers but only those
Who can't afford an attorney who's fee
Is . . .
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May 17, 2006 05:42 PM EDT --
Kensho is like loosing your virginity
You never forget when it happened.
You never forget where it happened
And you are never the same again.
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May 31, 2006 11:18 AM EDT --
The trail geese leave as they fly South in the fall
The ripples caused by a pebble thrown into a pond
A single snow flake is the warm sun
This should be the true legacy
Of this old monk . . .
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May 04, 2006 11:33 PM EDT --
Glue
The Tibetans call it the great heart of sadness
St. Augustine called it restlessness
Buddhist call it desire, clinging
Rumi calls it longing, yearning
Abraham Maslow called the struggle . . .
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May 12, 2006 11:31 PM EDT --
In the end of it all
He found something
That had never been lost.
He entered a strange place
That was anciently familiar
An empty place filled
With remembered wonders
He danced to . . .
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May 13, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Water laughing over the stones in a brook
What of Joshu's dog?
What of Nissan's cat?
No Moon, No Water.
All are the sound of one hand . . .
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May 14, 2006 09:06 AM EDT --
(Note: Mondo is a teaching device used in Zen used to either asses the level of understanding of the other person or to aid in bringing out further understanding)
The old monk asked the young . . .
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May 25, 2006 08:28 PM EDT --
Zen poverty is the wetness of water
The heat of flame, the cold of ice.
It is the value of the empty cup
It is the silent stillness at the sea's bottom..
What can be said . . .
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May 30, 2006 10:43 PM EDT --
There comes a time
When scripture and wisdom fade away
And the voice of God is heard
In the purr of a housecat
And his touch is felt in her paw
On your face
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May 31, 2006 10:45 AM EDT --
All my life I have tried to make something of myself
Or as my Mother put it so many times "be somebody".
Fortunately, I failed
I now understand so much better . . .
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June 03, 2006 01:31 PM EDT --
He sat on his black pillow
As he had done so many times
The correct posture,
Full Lotus, back straight
Hands in proper position
Everything buy the rules
And by the numbers.
The next . . .
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June 06, 2006 06:53 PM EDT --
Crossing Lake George in a small boat
On a sunny summer afternoon,
Watching the wind-caused ripples
Coming from nowhere going nowhere.
Overhead, white-cloud dragons and horses
Prance . . .
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May 26, 2006 11:58 PM EDT --
Buffalo dancer, buffalo dancer,
Dancing in the fading twilight.
Clad in head and hide and horns.
Spirit reaching to find the herd.
Bobbing weaving, charging, stamping
In the glow . . .
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April 18, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
So much talk amoung religious people about poverty and giving it up and giving it all away for this or that purpose perhaps we should look at what posesson or ownership actually means.
Absolute ownership . . .
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May 30, 2006 11:20 PM EDT --
The poet gazed at the awesome power
Of the storming sea
And sought words to describe it,
And found only baby babble.
He sat in the concert hall and felt
His heart soar away on the music . . .
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June 29, 2006 09:39 AM EDT --
Like a milking stool,
The Spiritual life stands
On three legs
Great Faith
Great Doubt
Great Determination
Great Faith that
Salvation is possible
And that is possible for . . .
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August 10, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
The old monk paused on the forest path
Sitting down under a great tree next to a small pool
He was aware that his need to rest was an indication
That he was nearer the end of his journey . . .
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March 23, 2006 03:32 PM EST --
When I first came on board around the first of the year, there were many articles on religion, spirituality, Practice etc. now next to nothing. Where did everybody go?
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March 30, 2006 09:03 AM EST --
Armies of Daffodils
Arrayed in the rising sun
Singing songs of joy
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March 18, 2006 12:16 AM EST --
In the center of the ancient forrest
There is a large clearing
Beaten down and warn smooth
By aeons of use
Marking each of the four directions
There is an oak tree, standing . . .
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