live with awareness and compassion

tsukioka yoshitoshi

Deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. 

They keep searching outside. 

-Bodhidharma

outside at 6am

has the garbage truck come yet

no 

and neither has the dawn

not yet 

but almost 

clear sky 

stars 

cold air

quarter moon low in the sky

down near the treetops

the bus to sacramento eases down the street

but no one is there waiting for a ride

-james lee jobe

Sometimes it's to your advantage 

for people to think you're crazy.

-Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk Quartet - 'Round Midnight

if you argue right and wrong

you will always be one or the other

live by cultivating

live by nurturing

live with awareness and compassion

even on the grayest of days

the sky is vast and beautiful

the sky is endless

-james lee jobe 

The farther the source, the longer the stream.

— Nichiren

A fine soft morning. Gaia is with us.

We are the birds of emptiness.
We are the children of this silence.

-james lee jobe

The world is your mirror. 

You only see your own reflection. 

-Brian Thompson

-james lee jobe 

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. 

-Abbie Hoffman

I just dreamed that a bound collection of John Coltrane's favorite recipes existed, and a nice old man brought it to me as a gesture of friendship. As dreams go, that's pretty good.

-james lee jobe

Start where you are. The past is gone, 

the future is not yet here, 

and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, 

we cannot be in touch with life.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

poet shows grandkid how to watch cartoons on youtube

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake

is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

— Pema Chödrön

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