let go of everything

painting by Harry Moody 

Look up, I am bathing in the clouds. 

See me bathe.

High above this long, green valley, 

High above the river. 

The air is cool, and I am clean. 

I have wanted to be clean for so long now. 

My body is below, 

lying still and dirty on the ground. 

I can hear my wife crying, 

but i am rising. 

up past the clouds now. 

Free. 

Clean at long last. 

James Lee Jobe

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When "I" is replaced with "We" even illness becomes wellness.

Malcolm X

multi-media art by Robert Rauschenberg

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Whenever I see you a tsunami slams my beach.

See the crows do a dance number with top hats 

And canes, Al Green singing 'Love And Happiness.' 

Wife, the river in my souls rises and washes 

Over its banks and on into the cobbled streets.

The earth rumbles and quakes. Mad dogs run 

Through the parks in my head, foaming at the mouth.

It's been this way for years. Decades. God 

Isn't running this show; the wild, hairy drummer

That hides in my heart is in charge. Wife, 

The sun is setting, let's pick up the beat and dance. 

James Lee Jobe  

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We avoid inappropriate actions for reasons that concern others. 

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Trombone Shorty - Where Y'At

Where does the soul come from? Where does it 

Go at night? That's where I desire to live. I dream 

And leave my body every night, some nights 

It happens several times. On that astral plane 

I find my soul and many of these pitiful poems. 

I live one life here and another life there, and 

Often I just close my eyes and I am gone. Maybe 

There will come a night when I do not return. 

I know I would prefer to stay on the other side.

It is a land of light and shadow, like here. Who 

Can say which realm is real and which is not? 

I say both lives are real. I say both are dreams. 

James Lee Jobe  

Life, according to Zen, should be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in water. 

D. T. Suzuki

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Let go of everything, even let go of the idea of letting go. 

James Lee Jobe 

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