A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1793. I don’t believe in God; but I do believe in God’s love.And look. My eyeshades are wet from my tears.I could actually see in my mind that consciousness lives on.The important thing is, […]
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Enlightenment is not day and night.Enlightenment is an infinite trail of sunrisesFinding us. We are birds who will meet of a seasonPassing life and truth on to othersThrough usTill we part. Pieces of the mirror:Siddhārtha GautamaVirginia WoolfMarc ChagallStephen HawkingAnna Karenina. Suffering’s as much a part of life’s existenceAs breath, flesh, and blood. When Yashoda, foster-mother
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In Buddhism the individual does not “own” her levels of Enlightenment. They are property of Enlightenment itself. As the morning is not owned by the sun.
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In the depth of the snowbound hours of winterIn the private of my stolen-alone hours of silenceIn the heart of all forgotten, phantom cosmonautsI find images of you. With twinges of fear, I confess: What if we never had met?What if Gabriel? What if Gretta?What if I’d never read them in Joyce? Never his ‘Dubliners’?
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Sentenced to more than a chilling 43 years in prison. For being critical, on SOCIAL MEDIA, of THAILAND’s monarchy. A former civil servant in the Thai Revenue Department for nearly 30 years, Anchan Preelert, age 65. In response to, to silence, democracy-reform protests in that country. Demanding the King be held accountable under the constitution.
