on this date a lion rose to heaven

Rory James Andrew Young

21 May 1972 Lusaka, Zambia
26 April 2021 Fada N’gourma, Burkina Faso

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As good a man

as I have ever known or am likely to

was killed on this day two years ago. Please

read about his monumental life,

and please send him

your love.

Prayers for the dead

are on the same footing as gifts for the living.

The angel goes in to the dead with a tray of light, bearing a cloth of light,

and says, ‘This is a gift for you from your brother so-and-so,

from your relative so-and-so.” And he delights in

it just as a living man rejoices

in a gift.

Ibn al -Ghazali

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the world is a vessel for spirit

snow crows

If you try

to grab hold of the

world and do what you want

with it, you won’t

succeed.

The world

is a vessel for spirit,

and it wasn’t made to be manipulated.

Tamper with it and you’ll spoil it.

Hold it, and you’ll

lose it.

With tao,

sometimes you move ahead

and sometimes you stay back; sometimes

you work hard and sometimes you rest; sometimes

you’re strong and sometimes you’re weak;

sometimes you’re up; sometimes

you’re down.

The sage

remains alert, avoiding

extremes, avoiding extravagance,

avoiding excess.

from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 29

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after we resume our original nature

papaji

When the water returns

to its original oneness with the river,

it no longer has any individual feeling to

it; it resumes its own nature, and finds

composure. How very glad the

water must be to come

back to the original

river!

If this is so,

what feeling will we have

when we die? I think we are like the water

in the dipper. We will have composure then, perfect

composure. It may be too perfect for us, just now, because

we are so much attached to our own feeling, to our

individual existence. For us, just now, we have

some fear of death, but after we resume

our true original nature,

there is Nirvana.

Shunryu Suzuki

zen mind, beginner’s mind

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remain in the center

morgan maassen

Knowing

others is intelligence;

knowing the self is enlightenment.

Conquering others is power; conquering

the self is strength. Know what is enough, and

you’ll be rich. Persevere, and you’ll develop

a will. Remain in the center, and you’ll

always be at home. Die without

dying, and you’ll endure

forever.

from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 33

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