The choice that we make.

Louis Treserras

Moonrise again.

Only humans need a word

For sorrow, a wolf just howls.

The howls just fade away

And a man might fade away as well.

The silence that follows is empty. 

Now it is late. The moon rises

Over the Sacramento Valley.

Walking alone, the sound of feet

Moving through the tall grass.

James Lee Jobe

Fulfillment has nothing to do with circumstances.

Gangaji

Farewell, Western Black Rhino.

Horned and rather nearsighted,

I have relatives like that. Indeed,

If one looks at just the skull,

There is a human quality there.

The Western Black Rhino, extinct.

Birds warned them when danger approached,

But in the end the dangers outnumbered the birds.

What can you do?

I wonder now if got it lonely toward the end,

With the last of the great animals wandering about,

Seeking out their kinfolk,

Just wanting to see a friendly face.

And then the final one,

The last Western Black Rhino,

Perhaps knowing the poachers were out there,

A bird screeching at the sound of human footsteps,

And the last beautiful creature just waiting,

Not even caring anymore,

Preferring death to the endless loneliness.

James Lee Jobe 

May you be happy. May you be peaceful. May you be safe and protected. May you live with ease and well-being. And may we all awaken and be free.

Devin Berry, “Metta from the Back Seat”

Louis Treserras

My friend, there are two skies in this life,

One is above, and the other is within.

You can rise up into one, or down into the other.

Or you can stagnate, and go nowhere.

It's a choice we make. I want to go down, within.

I choose to know the sky that is within myself. 

James Lee Jobe

Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness. 

Thich Nhat Hanh

Clark Little

Daily rising well before dawn 

to light the candles

and sit in meditation;

life might race past, 

but for myself,

I far prefer to walk.

James Lee Jobe

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. 

Shunryu Suzuki

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