mattkoco

"Grandfather of all Scouts... Teach me to be the eyes of my people. Teach me to move like the shadow. Allow me to become the winds, the rocks, the soils, and the life forces in all its forms. Allow me to suffer for my people and take away their pain. Honor me by allowing me to die for my people. For I love my people beyond myself and I will sacrifice my all for my people, my earth, and for you. Test me beyond all hardship and pain. Create me as you would forge a tool, and if you find I am worthy...

Practicing Harmony Rules of the Road for Residential Practice 1 On keeping the Bodhi mind You must first make a firm decision to attain enlightenment and help others. You already have the refuges and precepts. Know when to keep them and when to break them, when they are open and when they are closed. Let go of your small self and become your true self. If you do not have the mind of the Way, then all this hard work is meaningless and not beneficial. -Dogen 2 On mindfulness Know that you...

Thy will not mine be done Wholehearted doing while letting go of outcomes is enlightened activity. There is a right and wrong path to take, good and bad choices, the way of Vision and the way of darkness, but the right path doesn't appear (and therefore cannot be walked) by force, controlling, or overthinking. What to do, how to choose where to go? The pure function of the will is to let go completely into the feeling of this life, over and over into this activity without distraction until...

Pain is the best of things a great gift this broken heart disappointed and longing points to a painted door in a dark stone wall all bent hinges and rotten wood swinging open. I'd never have thought to step through and seen the Ocean reflecting an endless sky all our salty tears fall to the Earth and roll back to the Ocean how wonderful to follow them ...

Seeking the Way seems pointless it can't be found by looking just what am I hoping to find? So how much moreso of non-Ways? seeking all kinds of pleasure leads to misery instead Like sweeping sand into the ocean to clean up the beach I've wasted so much of my life at both ends of that broom what to do? The middle of the broom doing not-doing seems a funny way of saying surrender to what already Is because it has no source that spring won't stop bubbling miraculous! feeding me and all beings...