Sometimes, The Way comes to you… small reminders of presence.
Welcome.
Just a few thoughts about Doism that social media memes and other sources inspired one year. I may yet get around to posting more…
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On the Wisdom of Knife Wielding
Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, & free themselves from the fools. The master takes a knife and butters her toast; she creates no attachments to fools, or the wise.
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Awakening with Doris Lessing
Why have you done this to me? Jane Mooney wrote to Doris Lessing after reading Shikasta, a science fiction novel with spiritual overtones and themes. Mooney would later say, Shikasta had the most astonishing effect on me. I just thought, “That’s it now. Everything is different. I don’t know how I can leave the house…
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Darkness, Light and Forgiving.
Until I have discovered my own darkness, I do not know myself. Until I have forgiven that darkness, I cannot fully express my light.
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Let go or be dragged
I expected tonight to be a difficult sleep. Unfortunately, I was not disappointed in that expectation. Yesterday I made a mistake at work. A bad one. Nothing that couldn’t be repaired, but the repair took time and put an entire film production on hold while that repair was made. A fairly bad mistake in the…
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Weapons are the tools of violence
Meditations on Two Photographs The obscenity of war has many faces: Some face down and dead in awful places. Some, thumbs up and beaming like a boy In some dark death machine posed like a toy.
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Mind the Unconscious
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ~ Carl Jung This insight alone, ultimately, is what Laozi wrote 81 chapters about in his Dao de Jing. Except that Laozi wouldn’t quite mean ‘know the unconscious’ the way we think about it … he does not…
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Karma is a bitch, but only when I am.
Cute, and a very common and popular thought, but… How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer Karma doesn’t discriminate, unfortunately. Karma isn’t a mechanism for making the world right for me by punishing others. Wishing ill on others, even those I might feel richly deserve it…
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Naming is the origin of all particular things.
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the…
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Call it fate, then laugh at it
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them. ~ Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram Luck is what happens to you when fate…