Happy holidays!
McGee Creek Crooked Forest November 2014 photo by c. gwendolynalley
“Oh the weather outside is frightful
but the fire is so delightful
and since we have no place to go
let it snow let it snow let it snow!”
(Read on to learn how!)
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The key principle of meditation
is to return to what
is already there
and rest.
–Ken McLeod
I find myself in the heart of Granada, Nicaragua with my son.
It is late June, summer solstice, and the rainy season arrived with a roar and a rush today.
I thought I knew what I was here for, and what I was going to do, I really did, even today. But I did not.
While I meditate on my purpose here, on my return to what, and let go of the paralyzing fears that are making kinks in my back and gout in my joints, my son and I will find places to play like ping pong at Pura and to eat treats like at Pan de Vida and to practice Spanish like at the library at the convent and to get out of the way of trouble wherever possible and be cool tambien.
What we should be doing is already always t/here. Time to rest.
PS More photos from our exploration inside and out to come.
her face is as big
and round
as a pie pan…
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This morning in the garden at An Lac Buddhist Temple on Saticoy and Darling in Ventura.
“Maitreya Loving Kindness Tour” an exhibition of relics from the historical Buddha and many other Buddhist masters is coming to Ventura in a free exhibition June 13, 14, and 15. It is an auspicious time and place for prayers for world peace and healing.
Do not hate your enemy,
for if you do, you are in
some way his slave.
Your hatred will never be
better than your peace.
Jorge Luis Borges, no 19 in
Fragments from an Apocryphal Gospel
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