What it is I don’t understand.

america when will you allow in 

the poor people with nothing at all 

who want a chance to work and eat 

and to send their children to schools 

and churches and hospitals that are safe 

who just want a roof over their heads 

to call their own 

america you are heartless and gutless 

just brittle skin stretched over weak bones 

you don’t feel anything anymore  do you

________

we hurt the mothers at birth 

and they hurt us throughout childhood 

sometimes they never stop 

the fathers are seldom actually there 

either physically gone or mentally gone 

today I went to the place where we put 

the last of our son’s ashes 

and I wondered where I went wrong 

what had I done or failed to do 

and what is left to be done now maybe nothing

________

I am trying to understand this thing 

but I am not sure what it is I don’t understand 

that much I do understand 

and it doesn’t help much  I can tell you that

________

may compassion be part of our deepest nature let it arise from our interconnection with all things

                                             by james lee jobe

Cranes by Ogata Korin

As long as it benefits even one being you have to,
without any sense of discouragement, go on.

16th Karmapa

Be grateful to everyone.

Pema Chödrön

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

Nature is the great teacher and always has been. Shakyamuni went to the jungle to find its teachings, Moses up the mountain, Jesus to the desert, and Muhammad to the caves. Sadly, we forget this, so it is important to have a practice that reminds us again. 

Clark Strand, “A Green Meditation Retreat”

The

Earth would die

If the sun stopped kissing her.

Hafez

Negative emotions are not a fixed reality and will naturally release their grip, if you give them the space to do so.

Haemin Sunim

Irises at Yatsuhashi by Ogata Korin

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James