the heroes are not listening to you now

Xiaoyang Galas - Travel

Sun-faced Buddha and Moon-faced Buddha…
….and the Jobe-faced Buddha!
(Pardon me, but I do like to start the day with a laugh.)

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sun plus air plus water
equals life

warmth and nourishment
equals a measure of love
human compassion

from the universe to us
the humans

                and from us

we should be putting something back

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IF YOU DRINK IN THE MORNING, THE HEROES WILL NEVER COME. This is the name of your death. This is your death by the glass. It is easy to see your death if you look through the bottle of wine, holding it up to the morning sun. Your death in purple light. Your death in pinot noir, your death in cabernet sauvignon. The heroes are not listening to you now, they are all washing their capes for another day, another needy victim. No one listens to a drunk anyway.

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Shunryu Suzuki said,
"it's wisdom which is asking for wisdom."
-- Could it be that this wandering fool called Jobe
has really been on the right path for sixty-six years?

james lee jobe 

Xiaoyang Galas - Colors Are Singing

The late evening crow

of deep autumn longing

suddenly cries out

-Buson (1715-1783)

translated by Sam Hamill

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"I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful."

-John Lewis, from Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

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"If we can accept our imperfections as they are, then we can use them as part of the path."

-Chögyam Trungpa

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"You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home." -Abbie Hoffman

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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” -Jean Jacques Rousseau

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