"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain
The wind is so strong today
that there is no morning fog
so strong in fact
that the trees are doing a wild dance
waving their many arms and fingers
at the sky
every now and then
a piece of one breaks
and tries to fly
*
I have lost my taste for politics
by politics of course I mean propaganda
it is silence that feeds me now
and I have lost any desire for reward or applause
by lost of course I mean that I tossed it away
silence
is my blessing now
what I believe in is stronger
than that which I disbelieve
and what I disbelieve is a long list
no gods
no heaven
no hell
no afterlife
no astrology
no destiny
no fate
I don’t even believe in luck
good or bad
there are the choices I make
and the actions that I take
there is coincidence
the random things
and there is suffering
all of life is suffering
impermanence
we all die
you
me
the earth itself
the solar system
and on that cheery note
I wish you a fine day
random
but fine
*
Evening
the music of a lone dove
the music of crickets
no other sounds at all
just a Delta breeze
to cool off the big valley
James Lee Jobe
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The ultimate standpoint of Zen is that… the peace we are seeking so eagerly has been there all the time.
D.T. Suzuki
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