It is wonderful, isn’t it? To be surprised by something we’ve always known.

Sakai Tokugen

Deeper than the nothingness of mind is the fullness of your reality. While friends may be none other than ourselves, that does not discount their value in drawing us into one. There is no solo journey. We’re in this together.

My friends are even mindmade, I also do not have any. Mind is/n’t I and them, no inside, no outside, no me, no them, no …

Yes, that might be a good way to say it. Although I am not sure how ‘conscious’ one is while the recording takes place. It could easily be in the mind and consciously handled. It could also be something completely out of our hands. Or perhaps a combination of the two?

Perhaps all and none of this….

In the richest sense of it.

That is not for me to say, of course.

People seem to fly in and out of this life, rather quickly. Even if I wanted to hang onto them, I am not fast enough to catch them.

I read that article, too. It might be good for many. But as with anything, there may be many people out there trying to pound square pegs into round holes.

It is fairly simple to hear from within what we might really need; what is too much or too little; but the problem for many is the inability to listen.

Does Takuin have friends?

Is that really the question you wanted to ask?

I ask because I have heard this question before, and thus far, no one has been satisfied with a simple answer.

A simple answer is yes, but I do not really have them. I mean, they are not mine, not in the way we usually think.

Most of the people we might have as friends on Facebook probably never pay attention to our updates anyway.