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 …
Tag: Thoughts
Dover Friends identity when I came to New Hampshire
The Church of the Clamshell Alliance
Kinisi 68
she grew fat with lies that vined around the very door
I’d slipped through
Where would science be without this?
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!
Kinisi 67
Shasta, with its implied immensity
An ongoing internal tension
Trying to strike a satisfying balance:
Between my local Meeting and serving the wider world of Friends.
With my writing, finding a wider audience for my existing work.
With the rest of my life – householding, exercise, reading, etc.
It just never seems to come together neatly!
So just what, exactly, holds it all together?
As she kept thinking, listening to Washington’s Great Music Station
Champagne weather, hosted by Bill Korbel
Kinisi 66
Unintentional Prayer Flags
It’s kind of the woodchuck of the insect world
My wife brought in a big green caterpillar, fatter than my thumb and longer than a finger, then asked if I knew what it was.
Nope.
Then she informed me it’s a hornworm, our first one she’s found on our tomato plants in the two decades we’ve lived here. And she was terrified. Said they can devour not just whole tomatoes but the plant too, as well as peppers, eggplants, potato plants. Well, it’s a long list and if you find one of the goliaths, there are bound to be more.
That stirred up memories of the three little woodchucks that showed up one July and reduced our six thriving Brussels sprouts plants to sticks. The very thought of something like that recurring still strikes terror.
A gardener has to be watchful.
Kinisi 65
the dilemma of loving a practical woman
Jnana's Red Barn 