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Why don’t you fly?
Some time ago, I saw a Robin walking down the street. He weighed about nine pounds, I am guessing.
“Why are you walking?” I asked him.
“Well,” he told me, “I’m trying to get some of this weight off.”
“I did notice that you are kind of heavy,” I told him, “but I’m wondering, why don’t you just [...]
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The gift of the moon
Ryoken, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut, only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryoken returned and caught him in the act.
“You may have come a long way to [...]
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Being alive
When I was young, meditation or prayer was a requirement or compulsion. (Who am I kidding? I still fight it… and I’m not young anymore.) There is something about the sensation or gratification that we are on the “right” path.
It is said that our journey begins when we lose our luggage.
Yes. And the [...]
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Hibiscus Flowers
In his book Too Small to Ignore, Wess Stafford (President of Compassion) tells a story from his childhood on the Ivory Coast of Africa. About a village visited by a convoy of French colonial officials for a government survey. Their questions had to do with “expectations of the future.” (Including numbers [...]
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Purple dragon
A great Rabbi died. He had been revered and loved by his congregation.
After his death, it was decided that the Rabbi’s son, himself a Rabbi, would take his father’s place. This pleased the congregation, for the son would be “just like his father.” But after some time, there was surprise and grumbling. [...]
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Oranges
Kathleen Norris writes about her niece (in her book Acedia and Me) . When her niece was three, Kathleen’s brother would drive her to day care in the morning, and her mother, who worked as a stock-broker and financial planner, would pick her up in the afternoon. She always brought an [...]
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New Year
It is a New Year.
Per usual, I didn’t get around to making any resolutions. I find it sufficient to dust off my list from last year, and work on the ones I never got around to. Plenty of folk cover the gamut for me on 43things.com. A few I liked this [...]
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Bootleg Whiskey