Saturday, July 04, 2009

1,2,3

With palms together,
Good Morning Everyone,

streetZen this morning after a walk with friends. It is the 4th of July and we celebrate independence from tyranny. The only true tyranny is the tyranny of mind, however. Mind that designs traps; mind that establishes problems; mind that resides in thought: this is the mind of tyranny.

Become independent of that mind. Reside in the experience of interdependence.

1,2,3 is not 1,2,3; it is 1,2,3. What is the difference? Experience one and many simultaneously; let go of one; let go of two.

The soil receives the rain water, but does not keep it.

Happy Days,
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