Mike’s Alexa Skills on Amazon
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Flexibility In the Spiritual Journey
The spiritual journey, if it requires anything at all, requires flexibility.
There Is No Certainty
We are sure of nothing in this life. Cervantes.
Your Daily Zen Practice
Eno was a great Zen master of the seventh century. He had lost his parents when he was young and earned his living by gathering firewood. One day when he was in the market-place he heard someone reading the Diamond Sutra. He asked where such books were to be had and was told, From Master …
From 300 Tang Poems – Fields
The fields are chill. The sparse rain has stopped. The colors of Spring teem on every side. With leaping fish, the blue pond is full. With singing thrushes, the green boughs droop. The flowers of the field have dabbled their powdered cheeks. The mountain grasses are bent level at the waist. By the bamboo stream …
Your Style
If you are attacked with regard to your style, never reply. It is for your work alone to make answer. from Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary.
Learning and Doing
To learn and then do. Is that not a pleasure? Confucius.
A Cup of Tea – by The Book
Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Lao tsu, and the ethereal aroma of Buddha himself. From The Book …