The distance is the distance And the time is a wait The time is a fuse between Two preternatural embers So the distance becomes a touch The distance becomes closeness And the time becomes singularity The fuse becomes fusion
Out of the corner of my eyes I always think there is an emerald Glittering in the midday sun Out of the reach of my ears I always think I hear a voice; A bird of paradise in a tree So I keep my senses vigilant But when a breeze brings that scent I know my favorite muse is near
If you must know I was thinking of her The sun was setting Sky turning into violet And vermillion Outside my window And I looked For the shades of green That I know are in her eyes If you must know I was thinking of the distance That separates us And the closeness In the words that we utter And of how the deep ocean Resembles our connection
* Karma Is Not Fixed Destiny Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature.... But it is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma....Here's how mindfulness changes karma. When you sit, you are not allowing your impulses to translate into action. For the time being, at least, you are just watching them. Looking at them, you quickly see that all impulses in the mind arise and pass away, that they have a life of their own, that they are not you but just thinking, and that you do not have to be ruled by them. Not feeding or reacting to impulses, you come to understand their nature as thoughts directly. This process actually burns up destructive impulses in the fires of concentration and equanimity and non-doing. At the same time, creative insights and creative impulses are no longer squeezed out so much by the more turbulent, destructive ones. They are nourished as they are perceived and held in awareness.--Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
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