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Call and response

September 18, 2021July 31, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 2 Comments

Q: Why are there so many churches?

A: Why are there so many kinds of birds? Each variety, with its own song? All flying through the same air?

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September 12, 2021September 13, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

NZ

 

FREE

SHEEP

 

KIWI

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September 5, 2021July 16, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

the scarred moon

a time of bright awareness

As I squinted at the digital clock

September 4, 2021July 16, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

1@1

In the morning

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August 29, 2021July 16, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

it seems I can’t stop myself

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August 22, 2021July 16, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

that is, to become so bloated

One big criticism of Buddha

August 21, 2021July 16, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Said the writer: Implicit in the Four Noble Truths is the lack of a self or a soul. There is only this process. … The wheel of the Dharma is like a benevolent monarch’s chariot that can go anywhere …

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August 15, 2021July 16, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

she grew fat with lies that vined around the very door

I’d slipped through

Where would science be without this?

August 14, 2021July 16, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 3 Comments

A revolutionary ideal

one God, one Truth

rather than this or that, by whim or willy-nilly

~*~

The mystery of the big bang, something out of nothing, a scientific paradox, all leading to human consciousness. A honeybee cannot be an accident, nor can a human.

Only a divinity could create such a mishap!

 

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August 8, 2021June 21, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Shasta, with its implied immensity

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