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The Cause

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The breath you give is the breath you receive is the breath that whispered this planet into atoms, blew spirals of night into galaxies like glass and spindled out the flesh of your ancestors. We were connected by a dark sigh before we had names and our lungs are the bellows of the Maker. Don't waste a single exhalation complaining about the world. Choose beauty. The gift will not appear until you are grateful. Under snow, seeds listen. Are you singing to them? Why not? The softer your voice of praise the more they reach up golden cups of thirst and yearning. Here's the secret, creation happens quietly. Stillness swirls from inside out. You could be the cause of Spring. Photo from Issoantea

The Friend (Video)

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In the very unity of Awareness, the Other is present as Self-awareness. The embrace of the  Friend is already here. You are never alone.

February

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Clinging to light is not the way. Clinging to darkness is not the way. Winter is not an absence. Spring is not a destination. Lose your way in the Bardo between seasons and wake up wherever you are.

Notes on the Prayer of the Heart (Video)

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Let us explore how a prayer of many words becomes the prayer of "one word"  (monologistos). When prayer sinks from the linear thinking mind  through the breath into the Heart, a string of many thoughts distills into a  single divine Name. The painting is by Rembrandt.    

Quantum Discontinuity & the Miracle of Perception

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    To create an effect, every cause passes through the realm of the miraculous, which is the realm of the un-created. The miraculous is the discontinuity of the void, the empty space between any two impulses of energy. A galaxy or a photon, a breath or a seed, one who is dying or one who is being born, must perish and sprout again, perish and sprout again, from this space of discontinuity and re-creation. Your inhalation arises from this space. Spring arises from this space. Your heart beat arises from this space.  Quantum discontinuity evaporates the gossamer threads of necessity that bind action to reaction, cause to effect, melting the karmic mirage into a waveless transparency. This is the space of the shaman who performs miracles of healing or shape-shifting. The shaman breaks the chain of causation, entering the void between this moment and the next. The dew of causation dissolves, revealing the non-linear reality of clustered radiance, the v...