Lotus Wisdom…

A monk asked Chimon, “Before the lotus blossom has emerged from the water, what is it?”

Chimon said, “A lotus blossom.”

The monk pursued, “After it has come out of the water, what is it?”

Chimon replied, “Lotus leaves.”

Lotus

The Experience…

‘Perhaps the experience you are looking for is the experience of not looking for it.’

Clever! I must marinate on that…

Otis

I Wish I Could Show You

 “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”

— Hafiz

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

The Aim of Zen

BubbleThe aim of Zen is to focus attention on reality itself, rather than our intellectual and emotional reactions to reality.

There’s a movement going on…

There’s a movement going on out there. It’s called ‘The Tiny House Movement’.

Check out the documentary ‘We the Tiny House People’ here.

Tiny House Living – And How I Went Mad in the First Place.

My humble lil' abode - the innards.

My humble lil’ abode – the innards.

Life has its way of having a good chuckle at your expense, does it not? Way back in the child rearing years of my life, my partner at the time and I took to the road in a 1948 Leyland bus, which had a couple of lofts on the roof just big enough to swing a mouse in. So off we set with three kids, two dogs and a parrot, and did a few rounds of the North Island of our lovely country, New Zealand. A grand and interesting life it was too, with many a character-forming challenge along the way.

Things I learned while living on the road: Continue reading