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Insight

Everything changes
When you have an insight, what is it?

mind wanders

just walk - when walking,
eat rice - when eating rice
drink tea - when drinking tea
the moon shines when the owl screeches and the mind wanders!

Just Walking

"I" have always enjoyed walking.
It doesn't matter where, just walking.
In fact the best walks are the ones that are just walking, no "i" doing the walking!
Just walking is a good practice, like Just Sitting. They seem different, when "i" thinks so, yet there is none, when "i" is not occupying space with preconditioned notions of this or that.

Of course, it means letting go!
But as "i" walk, sometimes,
beyond the identifying mind monkey of "i" experience,
beyond the thieving identification,
beyond the past/future tripping is --

Nature in all it's magnificence, fully alive, as it is. That aha moment...
Original Nature

How a life gives when it has ended

I learned yesterday that a neighbor (I had done some decorative painting for), passed away in May. I felt compelled to go to the estate sale. When I arrived there was the Buddha that we once had enjoyed together standing in her living room. It now resides with me and will always be awakening in me that reality beyond the transitory.

The Big Sit continues

Sitting, practicing Zazen isn't difficult.
It is not practicing that is difficult...

Big Sit, Big Mind

Today is day 3 of the Big Sit

big sit leads to big mind!
the sun is pouring in,
penetrating in its radiance