A

Adventure, Potential, and Fullness Are Always Within

Adventure, potential, and fullness,

are always within. They long

to be nurtured, manifested, and for you

to claim its radiance.

Amidst your darkness in

despair, depression, sickness, and sorrow,

you are forever in essence,

holy, whole, and magnificent.

Be your own self nature,

awake with this breath, and

settle in its stillness.

Recognize that every breath holds

the promise of a new dawn and

the world coming into being through you.

Relax in your dynamic silence.

In this inner sanctum

flows the spacious peace --

the wind singing in the trees,

the water gurgling among the rocks,

the longing in your deep heart,

the vastness of your breath reaching

the tall mountains and the blue sky.

Be attentive and stay curious.

Do what you love and feast your life

in celebration; it matters that you care.

Feel in your bones your

triumphs and successes, failures, and fears.

Surrender to the flow but

at the same time ride the waves.

There is uncertainty in life, but

out of courage

find a way out, and

allow grace to lead you to

the sacred ground.

Allow life to live in you with

gratitude, joy, and love.

With awareness

refresh yourself in here and now.

In your wholeness,

there is nothing more to earn,

to attain, or to receive

to remember and

to nurture your luminosity.

D

Death, but What and Who Dies?

Death, but what and who dies?

A koan ¥ verse says,

‘Under a shadowless tree,

the community ferryboat.’

We are aboard the world of ‘the ferryboat.’

This ferryboat caries seamlessly ¶

everyone living in the community,

from one side to the unknown other side.

No one is left behind!

We are all in this community ferryboat,

subjected under the same

rules and dictates of the ferryboat.

The eternity of the shadowless tree and

our true reality and essence, have no form and

live in a different, spiritual, and spacious world – 

a world of ‘no sun.’

With no sun;

a tree and a body have

no substantial form and

cast no shadow.

Our essence has

no mind to think,

no substance to decay, and

no body to die!

What is death when we rise and

fall away like the waves, and flow on

like the ocean? We flow on, in the

magnificence of flowing!

Flowing on!

¥ Koan: Hekikanroku, Blue Cliff Record, Case 18. National Teacher Chung’s Seamless

Monument.

¶ Seamlessly: A seam has opposites of gap and restoration, separation and connection.

Seamlessness transcends dualities of two and one. Perfectly, completely, and seamlessly

the world of ‘ferryboat,’ carries and returns everyone to the other shore.

Let Your Dewdrop Return to the Ocean

Let your dewdrop return to the ocean — 

a home
for starfish and sharks to swim, 

a refuge
for corals and seaweeds to anchor, 

a world
for fish and sea urchins to breathe, 

a dance floor
for the waves to billow. 

The sun casts its crimson plays.
The moon whispers
its deepest secrets.
The willow bows
its shadow in respect.

As the ocean, you are
manifesting,
offering,
nursing,
welcoming, and
becoming,
encompassing
all.

As a Dewdrop, You have the Ability to Renew

As
a dewdrop,
you have the ability
to renew, recover, and recycle as
vapor and
cloud.

In
your
adventure, you
precipitate as rain,
returning back to earth.
You freely entry and empty into
the river, lake, and
ocean.

Your
dewdrop
may be small
and temporary, but
you overcome all hardships.
You are oceanic -- profound, and
vast.

You
can hold,
in your reflection and
vision, the immensity of the sky
transcending behond the limiting
water sac of a
dewdrop.

Now
that you
realize and remember
that you are not just a humble
droplet, but the spaciousness of the
ocean,

you
can let go
of pettiness --
your memories of creeks, streams, river,
lakes, geysers, waterfalls,
ice fields, and
icebergs.

You
are one
boundless,
open magnificence,
eternally ebbing and
flowing.

You
may have waves
cresting, billowing, and
surging on the
surface,
but

in
your
fathomless
depth, there is
vitality, peace, emptiness,
openness, and mystery -- where
all sound, noise, and your dewdrop
return to balane, infinity, and spacious
Silence.