This

is what you

shall do: Love the earth

and sun and the animals, despise riches,

give alms to every one that asks, stand up for

the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor

to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have

patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat

to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,

go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young

and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open

air every season of every year of your life, reexamine all you

have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss

whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall

be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only

in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and

face and between the lashes of your eyes

and in every motion and

joint of your

body.

 

Walt Whitman

 

 

The things that

change are not our real life.

Within us there is another body,

another beauty. It belongs to that ray of light

which never changes. We must discover how to mingle

with it and become one with that unchanging thing.

We must realize and understand this treasure

of truth. That is why we have

come to the world.

 

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

hard candy

 

Buddhism

advises you not to implant

feelings that you don’t really have or avoid

feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you

are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening,

so confront that. Look it square in the eye without flinching.

When you are having a bad time, examine that experience,

observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn

its mechanics. The way out of a trap is to study the

trap itself, learn how it is built. You do this by

taking the thing apart piece by piece.

The trap can’t trap you if it has

been taken to pieces.

The result is

freedom.

 

Henepola Gunaratana

 

eric schertler

 

Dream broken,

can’t get back to sleep,

so I sit in my hut in the clear

early dawn. On another mountain the

bell has tolled; on a lone tree the first singing

birds. All of my limbs are tuned and limber, and all

of my states are deeply profound. Before I’ve finished

writing a letter, morning light shoots through the forest

branches. Trusting my nature, there’s nothing outside

I seek. Once quiet, ten thousand entanglements

end; why work for people in the dust,

a hundred years of useless

unrest?

 

Wen-siang

mike kiev

 

Remain steady

and allow the world

to shape itself.

 

Receiving

this hexagram is an

encouragement to endure, to move

ahead by abiding in what is true and correct.

It is not a time to let the ego swell with successes

nor to despair at misfortunes. It is

simply a time to hold to the

path of essential

truth.

 

It is

likely that a

change has occurred,

or is about to. It is your responsibility

to hold your course and go on without regarding

this change. Constancy in correct thought and action

is the order of the day. Rather than letting your

head be turned, simply hold steady

on your spiritual path while

the world reforms

around

you.

 

Do not

indulge in judgment,

impatience, or ambitious thinking

now. By concerning yourself only with what

is essential and true and good, only with what 

 is in front of you and your correct

relationship to it, you meet

with good fortune

now.

 

from The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 32, Heng / Duration

 

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