One Bright Pearl

A large, spacious room, unfolded before me. It seemed to be part of a rustic lodge, with beautiful blonde ash woodwork, framing a grand window, that looked out upon a natural mountain vista.
Outside the window, a herd of ancient buffalo, or perhaps muskox, munched placidly in a high alpine meadow. I noticed that their coats [...]

The only question that has ever mattered to me is - “Who am I?” This one question has always seemed to be the main knowledge, the ultimate knowledge, the one answer that resolves all other questions about meaning, purpose, relationship to myself and others.
So what have I discovered through this questioning? More than anything, I [...]

At every turn I am obstructed. In the ordinary sense, my way forward is blocked. Living homeless in America is no easy thing. And yet, dropping my obstruction, life is just this - no obstruction. All I can do is live this obstruction today. As a reminder to my self I thought that I would [...]

what can I say
struggling like this
it is only
hanging from a tree
grasping at nothing
choking on bark
revealed!

Back to making a living. Again.
Advertising is such a drag in my mind. Yet it seems that if I am to be the master of my time then I must advertise the skills or the services I can provide for others. Having spent the last thirty years in the once emerging and now dominant information [...]

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I am finding my way in this style of practice. In chapter 3-3 of the Shobogenzo-zuimonki Eihei Dogen Zenji instructs his monks on the conduct of gainingless-ness mind. This has swiftly become the singular issue for me.
For now I feel that the only authentic practice is to follow the way of ancient sages, to either [...]