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Fosdick·in its eye are mirrored far off mountains·Veteran
@lobster very often says what I would like to say, but lack the nerve to do so - and so I choose silence instead. Also, I'm lazier and less imaginative. One finger points directly, two fingers would … (View Post)
Get a bug and use it as the focus of your meditation. Look at it closely. Such marvelous little beings, so tiny and yet so complete, so perfect. You cannot hate them if you do this. They interrupt an… (View Post)
We are at exponentially greater risk of being injured or killed by another human than we are of being injured or killed by a snake, and animals do indeed have their place in the world - which is very… (View Post)
Or, one could also take this old chestnut as being, not advice, but a koan for the non-Buddhist. It points directly to oneself. The first time I encountered it, 50 or maybe even 60 years ago, my imme… (View Post)