March 2011
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Anonymous asked: So you live at Payne Hollow?
November 2010
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Geese appear high over us
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
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~ Wendell Berry
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August 2010
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“It has come to my attention that the “Payne Hollow” name has quite...”
Bye for now
Seems this is enough now.
This has been an interesting and enjoyable experience, posting and viewing posts, all those pictures and words, thoughts and images we like to present to each other, I suppose.
Thanks to those followed and those following, especially to those who have commented and shared thoughts. I’ve recognized, though the amazing variety and beauty of your posts, aspects of...
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“Let there be a silent understanding and no more. Away with all thinking and...”
– Huang Po
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“I asked the river
About its destination
And came out lucky:
It babbled about...”
– Gyosen
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“Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation,
but strong,...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
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“What we do in meditation is to remove the obstacles that hide and cover our...”
– EKNATH EASWARAN
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“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You...”
– Eckhart Tolle, from A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
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“Nothing stands in the way of your liberation
and it can happen here and now...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
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“The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers.
– Arab proverb
....”
– Eknath Easwaran
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“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“At present we force the child to conform to a social pattern which we have...”
– J. Krishnamurti, from his second talk in Brussels (June 25th 1956)
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“Why do we educate our children at all? Is it to help the child to understand...”
– J. Krishnamurti, from his second talk in Brussels (June 25th 1956)
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“There is nothing to practice.
To know yourself, be yourself.
To be yourself,...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
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“Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days’ worth...”
– Ryōkan (via awakeinthedream)
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You Went Away but Remained in Me
yama-bato:
You went away but remained in me And thus became my peace and happiness. In separation, separation left me And I witnessed the Unknown. You were the hidden secret of my longing, Hidden deep within my conscience deeper than a dream. You were my true friend in the day And in darkness my companion.
by Mansur al- Hallaj (9th Century)
English version by Mahmood Jamal
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“So we sit down, we’re quiet for a while.
And gradually the unwinding...”
– Ordinary Freedom
by Jon Bernie
July 2010
204 posts
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“Meditate within eternity.
Don’t stay in the mind.
.
Your thoughts are...”
– Lalla
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“The soul, like the moon,
is new, and always new again.
.
And I have seen the...”
– Lalla
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“I didn’t trust it for a moment,
but I drank it anyway,
the wine of my...”
– Lalla, (meaning “darling,” she is also called Lal Ded, Lal Didi, and Mai Lal Diddi. All meaning Granny Lal or Grandmother Lalla. She is beloved in Kashmir and is revered as a great yogini, prophetess, and was well known for her wandering and dancing naked as she sang her songs.)
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“Covered with mud, I spend the entire day
looking for mud! Now I see...”
– Lalla, (lived in Kashmir in the 14th century, Lalla mixes doctrinal streams of Shaivism, sufism, Vedantic non-dualism and others. She described herself as “a somewhat something moving dreamlike on a fading road.”)
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“Unless there is a still center in the middle of the storm,
unless individuals...”
– anonymous monk in the Egyptian desert
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“Heart falters, stops
before a Chinese cauldron
still good for boiling water....”
– Jane Hirshfield, Secretive Heart
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“What’s this? This is an old toolshed.
No, this is a great past love.”
– Yehuda Amichai
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“You will find out what love is, and what sorrow is, only when your mind has...”
– J. Krishnamurti,
from a talk in Saanen, Aug. 5th 1962
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“When someone tosses you a tea bowl
— Catch it!
Catch it nimbly with soft...”
– Ikkyu, Bankei Zen [Peter Haskel, trans.]
from: http://crowwithnomouth-jesse.blogspot.com/
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“For you I undress down to the sheaths of my nerves.
I remove my jewelry and set...”
– “For You” by Kim Addonizio,
from Lucifer at the Starlight.
reblogged from: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
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“I’m not trying to counsel any of you
to do anything really special...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
from http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/
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“By following any religion, cult or creed, one becomes inevitably conditioned,...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
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“How is it possible to be free of suffering, free of the struggle? By direct...”
– Ordinary Freedom
by Jon Bernie
“in one gust
the last leaf decides:
gone”
– Robert Henry Poulin (via yama-bato)
“A world of dew,
and within every dewdrop
a world of struggle”
– Issa (via yama-bato)
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“Yesterday, you made a promise.
Today, you broke it. Yesterday,
....”
– Rumi, You Are As You Are
translation by Coleman Barks
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“It seems that statements, and thoughts about the nature of truth or about what...”
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“They put their fingers on their lips, -
The Powers above;
The seas their...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eros (Silence) (slngunchaser via fuckyeahralphwaldoemerson) (via saturnrising)
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“The wind moves, the flag moves, the mind moves:
All of them missed it.
...”
– Konrad Ryushin Marchaj Sensei