flowingmountain Tom

the still point of the dance is always, already Here and Now

Also on Bluesky -- @flowingmountain.bsky.social

[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

Seven days. Seven B&W photos of my life. No people. No explanation.

[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

"leaving texas 4th day of july ~ sun's so hot ~ the clouds so low ~ the eagles filled the sky"

Happy 4th Everyone!

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[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

Life is one movement, and the moment you define you create a mess, because definitions will be dead and life is an alive movement. Osho / "Book of Secrets"

[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

When your mind is kept empty, you naturally use yourself freely like a child, without self-consciousness or acting. When you grow up, you are not natural... If you are tense, you cannot catch a ball, but if you keep your mind empty, you will catch it. Sokei-an Sasaki

[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

Those who love and revere me
with unwavering faith, always
centering their minds on me--
they are the most perfect in yoga.

Krishna / Bhagavad Gita / Stephen Mitchell tr.

[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

Nothing in the world can purify
as powerfully as wisdom;
practiced in yoga, you will find
this wisdom within yourself.

Krishna / Bhagavad Gita / Stephen Mitchell tr.

[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

The wise man lets go of all
results, whether good or bad,
and is focused on the action alone.
Yoga is skill in actions.

Krishna / Bhagavad Gita / Stephen Mitchell tr.

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But the truly wise, Arjuna ~ who dive deep into themselves, ~ fearless, one pointed, know me ~ as the inexhaustible source. Krishna / Bhagavad Gita / Stephen Mitchell tr.

[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

@WalshFreedom So, that may be true. Explain why. And BTW, you are being misleading with the quote you reference--it is a lie. I do not know of any Democrats that do not support the existence of Israel. But that doesn't necessarily translate into blanket support for anything Israel wants to do.

[flowingmountain Tom @zenthis1]

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Jung

It is good to have problems, and without problems we cannot survive, but not too many. You don't need to create more problems for yourself; you have enough problems. Shunryu Suzuki

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O Shakti, each particular perception is limited, disappearing *in omnipotence*. Centering technique / Vigyan Bhairav Tantra / Zen Flesh Zen Bones / Reps and Senzaki

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As soon as you sense any lingering or obstruction, all of it is false imagining. Just make your mind clean and free, like space, like a mirror, like the sun in the sky. Zen Master Yuanwu / tr. Thomas Cleary / "Zen Essence"

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this was no time for native-born Protestants to grow lax and abandon the sublime values and articles of faith that had induced God to shower down upon them the blessings due a chosen people. John Updike, "In the Beauty of the Lilies" [mine]

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The climate of the times was against him [resigned minister, 1913]. The immigrant hordes had brought to America German radicalism and Italian anarchism and Semitic materialism;

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Actually, you are here, right here, so before you understand yourself, you are you. After you explain, you are not really you anymore. You just have an image. But usually you will stick to the image which is not you, and you will ignore the reality. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

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The previous quote is from "In the Beauty of the Lilies" by John Updike

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Beyond the brick buildings of Jersey City... the green patch of cattailed marsh rippled and twinkled in the summer breeze like those vistas of freedom seen from a classroom window, rectangles of a world sublimely free of effortful thought and the problems that exist in books. JU

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@mehdirhasan Actually, the worst case scenario is that the new leader will be worse than the previous one was.

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Her eyes contemplating him seemed dark as small plums; liverish patches beneath her eyes in the wan electric light seemed to betray some streak of ancient, pagan blood. [the minister's wife, after being told he was quitting the ministry] John Updike, "In the Beauty of the Lilies"

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Everybody has a metaphysical assumption which you can't prove. Watch out for it. It's basic to all thought. Alan Watts / Reality, Art and Illusion / talk

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Great hockey win for USA! The third period was all Canada -- the USA was lucky to survive it and get to sudden death overtime.