Satori? What's that?

Vincent van Gogh - Enclosed Wheat Field with Ploughman 

October 1889

May we, as a people, find the strength to hold on 

to our compassion, faith, hope, and love. 

And may I, as one person, find that strength as well.

-james lee jobe 

“Run, my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.”

-Hāfez

Andre Derain - Portrait of Matisse, 1905

If you have time to chatter,

Read books.

If you have time to read,

Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.

If you have time to walk,

Sing songs and dance.

If you have time to dance,

Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.

-Nanao Sakaki

It was one of the giant sequoia trees like you see in a movie. There were openings in it, some were as large as a room. The tree was as big around as a house at the base. In one of the smaller openings sat a man and a woman. "Do you want to make love to me?" He was surprised that she asked him that, but quickly said yes. They took off their hiking boots and clothes and spread a sleeping bag out on the ground. "Touch my face with one hand, and touch the tree with the other," she told him. Had she done this before? Here? He didn't know, but obeyed. Her face was soft, she was a lovely woman, and the tree, well, it felt like a tree. They were still for a moment and the man felt his consciousness fading away. He felt at one with the earth, like he had roots. And that was the last thought he had. He was gone, there was only the woman and the sequoia, which was just a little larger than before.

-james lee jobe

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"Greed is not kind to others. Greed is not even kind to the greedy."

 -B. D. Schiers

The sun spends the whole day hard at work.

Only at night does she rest,

In that secret place we cannot see.

Some say it is other side of the world,

But I say it is the other side of all life.

-james lee jobe 

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by." 

-Carl Sandburg

Satori? What's that?

Every moment is satori - 

How lovely, it's dawn! 

-james lee jobe 

"Deep sorrow comes with realizing that everything we previously took to be lasting and real is actually just about to disappear—and it never even existed in the first place. Such sadness and disillusionment have a wonderful effect. Sorrow makes us let go."

Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

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james