saying hello in the darkness

Tree Lined Lane at Chantilly - Paul Cezanne 

This life is light 

and light is this life 

it is the light of being placed inside 

the simple frame of a body 

moving across the bloom of the world 

across the pieces of time that help to define us 

and what's left beyond that 

our choices 

and our choices define us too

james lee jobe

There’s nothing to “get.” There’s nothing to achieve. You sit zazen because that’s what Buddhas do—Buddhas sit zazen. 

Ruth Ozeki

Sleep is a visitor 

it doesn’t really live here 

When the visit is over 

no matter how brief the stay 

I like to get up and go outside 

to look at the sky 

the sky lives here 

I raise my arms in the darkness 

to say hello 

night in the valley 

as fresh as a first kiss

james lee jobe 

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

If you could 

would you bicycle 

to the horizon of the world at night 

moving east toward the sunrise 

would you open your heart 

to the starlight above 

would you pedal faster 

to match the passion of your life

james lee jobe

Paul Cézanne - Mont Sainte-Victoire 

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