Category: Buddhist
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Seeing Clearly
If seeing clearly is the goal, why is it then that every time I see my conditioning clearly I muddy it in the days that follow. Muddied by thought, by my search to know more, until its nearly forgotten. If it wasn’t for this ground that holds all activity the insight wouldn’t bubble back to […]
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Sitting With The Weight Of The World On My Lap
I sat there with her sitting on my lap. Much bigger than she use to be —held in my arms. And I’m watching her and I’m thinking. And I’m thinking. I’m thinking, will I forget this too. And now I’m trying to remember all those moments I swore I’d never forget. They’re lost in some […]
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Relax
I’m way more relaxed when I’m not invested in a particular outcome. The more accepting of a variety of outcomes I am, the simpler things seem to be. Like the earth I take anything and give it a home, regardless.
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Selfless: Weeds
A weed is pervasive, in its environment it annihilates any competition so as to eliminate variety. In the mind weeds manifest in the form of selfishness. Thoughts, actions, words, from the standpoint of the self, the individual, destroy the variety that comes from selfless thought, words and deeds.
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Listen (Practice)
I’ve had a head cold over the past week which has really hampered my desire and ability to write poetry, as well as for my meditation practice. I’m just starting to come out of the haze and getting my footing back into some kind of normalcy. Without the practice, without the regimen of daily meditation […]
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Buddhadoshā
Have you ever had a word, perhaps foreign, perhaps just some gibberish made up in your head, come to mind? Has that ever happened? because it happened to me recently. The word? Doshā, sometimes Dosā, apparently in Japanese, dôsha. A word I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard before, and though it’s entirely possible, even probable that […]
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Practice
Last night I practiced Patience, Empathy/understanding letting silence pervade after thoughts, or arguments, where once there was meaning. Selflessness Moments of Awareness Reflection.
Daniel J Flosi is Consumed 