anicca

When the winds of change blow,

some people build walls and others build windmills  

Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom

Lao Tse

"When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears."

S. N. Goenka

The mind is everything; what you think, you become. 

Buddha

 Farewell to America with 10 days of service at Dhamma Pakasa in Illinois

Now I am washed away in the river;

after so much fussing, I am torn away and alonein the current

But I can swim or rather float.

The self I held, I left with my towel on the shore.

But I am still alive

I haven't drowned or died

Pieces of what I imagined I had to grip to

come floating along beside me. 

The current of the world is unraveling in, faces and forms

Without my will the universe unrolls

and fills my arms with muscles

My heart with human concerns

The scintillating milky wat of my back

is a winking and shimmering constellation

My body itself is a river

a continent of rivers

A flickering,

vibrating

shoreless ocean

 of currents and channels

unfathamable beginingless

endless.

The living ride on life like foam

on the crest of a surge in the cosmic ocean

Dr. Paul Flieshman