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Quick Thoughts

To Listen

December 9, 2009 6 comments

To listen is to share love with another person. It is not an isolated activity, but an open movement; a complete sharing of oneself. I must be open to you completely to really share with you. So I don’t want to waste my time with planning what to say next. If I plan everything while [...]

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The End, The Beginning

November 12, 2009 37 comments

Sometimes I see a tree in autumn with one remaining leaf. I understand this tree completely. It is Takuin.

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The Ghost

October 23, 2009 16 comments

There is a ghost that whispers in your mind. It says:

“You’ve had a real taste of liberation, the ultimate emptiness. So now, what is the point of life? What is the point of doing anything anymore?”

This ghost will never do you a good turn. It can only lie, telling you what it thinks is on the other side, based on an erroneous interpretation of a moment long gone.

It tells you what you want to hear.

Leave this ghost behind and press on. The light is almost visible at the end of the tunnel.

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Relationship – Two Years Later

October 6, 2009 6 comments

On this day two years ago, I wrote the post, Relationship – Part One (There is also a Part Two). At that time, judging by reader response, it was my most popular post. But not due to comments. I received over thirty emails on this two-part series, which at the time, was a reader response [...]

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Does the Wind Blow?

September 14, 2009 16 comments

The wind blows, and Takuin might ask, Can you observe the wind as it is? Or what about the physical reactions of your body to the wind; how it may react to the heat or the cold of it?  Do you feel it? Does this arise naturally within you? This is not an exercise. It [...]

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