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Nothing Works... Blog Tools Rate This Blog
Creation Date: 04-12-2012 03:29 PM
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Meditations...

This poem and others are available in my books, Nothing Works: Meditations on Aikido, Buddhism, the Tao, Zen, and other inconsequential things....and, Nothing Special, and Nothing Matters..., available thru Amazon.com, in print and Kindle editions and Barnes & Noble websites.....Also available as an e-book via Smashwords.com. Try this link: www.nothing-works.com for the full array of options.
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Status: Public
Entries: 360
Comments: 68
Views: 636,632

Entries for the Month of August 2014

In General Shelter Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #125 New 08-24-2014 03:55 PM
Shelter


There is a place I go to
Where I can find shelter
Support, relief from suffering
It's not too far away
But, sometimes it is hard
To get to, so hard to get to

So I wait, I wait, I wait
I wait till it is ready
Ready to open, open for me
It can't be forced

I breathe deeply, deeply
Bringing in all my pain
And exhaling it all out
All of it, all of it
In and out, in and out
Till there is nothing left
Nothing left, except my place
My place of shelter

So calm, so peaceful, so close
Yet, sometimes so far
But I wait patiently
For my mind, my heart, my spirit
To come together and let me in
In to my shelter



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Views: 979


In General Arrogant or Delusional Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #124 New 08-17-2014 04:21 PM
Arrogant or Delusional


When you speak
Of enlightenment
Of its study
Of its potential
Of you trying to reach it
YOU...every day you!
You can't help but sound
Arrogant or delusional




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Views: 894


In General I Sit and Watch Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #123 New 08-10-2014 05:42 PM
I Sit and Watch


I sit and watch
The bright blue sky
Turn dark, lit with stars
The blending of day
Into night - slow blending
And night back into day

I sit and watch
I sit and watch
I sit and watch
This is the important part
The watching
My spectator self

Taking no part in the process
Just observing
A passive spectator
How can this be?
Am I not part of this world?
An integral part?

Does not my body
Resonate in harmony
With all in the world?
So, when I sit and watch
Does not the world
Watch back?



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Views: 946


In General The Far Side Entry Tools Rate This Entry
  #122 New 08-03-2014 02:53 PM
The Far Side


On the other side
The far side
Of fear, discomfort, and pain
Is a whole new
And different world
That most people don't
Even know exists
But, it is there, habitable
And worthwhile

Sometimes there is
A satisfaction, if not pleasure
In this fear, discomfort, and pain
And, as you look back
At your old self
And at other people
They seem to move
In soft, slow motion
And without authentic life



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Views: 976




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