Christopher Keevil

Appreciate #Spiritual friendships. Steeped in #Zen. Open to all traditions and paths. The way of #Love. ❤️ 🙏

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

A grain of rice
A mustard seed

Flowering
Festooning the heavens

A dagger
A rent across the sky

Turning the whole works
Despairingly inside out

Even there
Buddha emerges

Everything everywhere
Sparkling fresh

Lay down my body
I accept

All is as it should be
Thus is this

#ZenPoems 🙏

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

It is so dear to have a group of friends, a sangha, to meditate with and share the spiritual journey. For me, there are four: that is Garden Oak Sangha (Woodbridge), Single Flower Sangha (Kentucky), Green Mountain Sangha (Alabama), and the Zen Center of New Haven. 🙏

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[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

Refuge in Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva

Refuge in Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva

Refuge in Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva

🙏 #Zen

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

Buddha
Dharma
Sangha

Bowing to the three treasures

🙏 #Zen

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

No bodhisattva who is a true bodhisattva cherishes the idea of a self, a being, a life span, or a separated individuality.

—Diamond Sutra

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

No one is immune from suffering.

It visits us, we visit it, with regularity.

It is our human condition.

With full unexcelled enlightenment, we don’t exit from it, we enter fully into it.

Thus embracing life, owning life, the only life we have!

🙏 #Zen

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

@culthummingbird Yes, @culthummingbird thank you. Yes. 🙏

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

The flavor of life, the stubbed toe, the glorious sunrise, exactly this is it.

We are not one. We are not two.
Just this is it.

Not kind of like this. Not sort of like this. Not partly like this.

Just this is it.

🙏 #Zen

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

@myMTthoughts Beautiful @myMTthoughts

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

@yogsrana Yes. Thank you @yogsrana

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

A javelin
Thrown through
The bull’s eye

Bursting to
The other side
And lo

All are gone
Only clear
Luminosity

And
Each
Particular

A needle tip
A robin’s beak
A gown

#Zen 🙏

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

What is that
Ice
Or something slippery
Chickens peck and
It turns to ashes
Where oh where
Has my little dog gone
Groping in the dark
A sunrise
Suddenly graces
My everything
What was I thinking?
To believe
I was only me
Slinging my bag
Across my shoulders
I head
Into the mountains

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

We have this one life, this one whole life!

It’s not me over here and the other things in my life over there

It’s not the path I’ve taken and other paths I might have taken

It’s not my interests at the expense of your interests

Just one whole life, everything!

#Zen 🙏

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

How much meditation is right?

If you’re new, 5 mins a day

With some experience, 30 minutes gives the time to go deeper.

Daily is helpful. Once in a while lacks momentum.

Change happens slowly over months and years. It alters one’s life - peace and balance.

#Zen

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

Our practice must always be aim, expression, hitting the mark, falling short.

Each is independent of the other.

In this way, we should practice and actualize the living quick of time.

— Kosho Uchiyama

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

When I started, years ago, sending regular dana to my spiritual teacher, it strengthened my bond with him, providing a sense of balance, and making me more open to receiving what he had to offer.

Dana is a gift to the giver as well as to the one who receives. And, who gives? Who receives?

🙏 #Zen

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

Who understands the words that you are reading right now?

Your leg can’t understand them. Your eyeballs can’t understand them. The gray matter of your brain without the active life force cannot understand them.

Let go of all thinking and investigate: Who is it that understands?

After releasing all the cursive became, a realization emerges.

Find it!

🙏 #Zen

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

Blessings
On the morning
To you!

Daffodils
Orange and yellow
Fill the land

Are we really
Going down the tubes?
Such beauty abounds

The hop of a Robin
The twilight peepers
Restore the soul

🙏

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

Step off the mind road.
Be still in the amazing moment of just this!

[Christopher Keevil @chriskeevil]

Meditate
So the I am self
Falls away
And there
Always there
The ground of being
The vast clarity
The true face
Before father and mother
Were born
And after the end
Of the empty kalpa
Great joy
Savaha! Savaha!
But hey
It’s totally ordinary
What’s the fuss
Just sweeping the floor
And heading out
To feed the chickens