there is a certain irony in the notion that insight is ever really sudden. most times, it appears ‘sudden’ only because one must take several runs at it before one is willing to really see/accept it.
beautiful thoughts
isn’t that funny. i really did it. and all it took was doing it again. hah.
Everything Inside of Me (Is Reaching Out To You)
thought i’d posted this. wrote it a week ago and have been trying (and largely failing) to get it recorded ever since. the melody is there, but not much more. bleh.
late night thoughts
well would you lookie here, she’s actually figured out that a podcast isn’t necessarily video. hah. this one weighs in at 17:02 minutes and about 23.3mb. late-night-thoughts-01082008.mp3
up and out (of the pit)
there is a part of me that is not reasonable. there is a part of me that doesn’t give a damn about anyone or anything else. there is a part of me that takes what it’s told as rock and when it isn’t…. well…. i did mention it isn’t reasonable, right?
wistfulness
note: whoops. forgot to hit the ‘post’ button yesterday and this wound up being a draft. bleh.
mind at the level of the heart
someone from the online sangha posted a question yesterday and i did not see it until today. timing is a beautiful thing. this was one of those moments where you read something and the answer doesn’t come from you at all… it just… flies into you from who knows where and you are typing so fast that you are almost afraid you’ll lose it before you can get it out… this, in relation to the statement that keeping the mind at the level of the heart is a key in practice. my reply to the person asking ‘what do you […]