What Shapes Us

The conditios that have arisen in our lives, regardless of their provenance, effectively shape our perception of things, creating all angles of view, from hard left all the way through the vagaries in the middle to hard right. Our countenance is oftentimes made hard, even mean. But beneath that, might lay intense compassion and empathy, especially toward kindred victims of like damage, self inflicted or not.

The Universe Inside

I was up before first light, first ensuring that the hallmark above my mind was secure, and it was. Deeply etched was the word, Faith, above it, standing sentinal. Faith in myself and, if I stay three-treasures fit, complete faith in the Way. Realizing first as I concentrated on my diaphram, that one can absorb the sutras, like speed reading. Samadal, sutral, mindful concentration, feet first, then floating slowly upward through my bones, muscles, gelatanous pipes and cables. Anatomical identification scores the rising scan of my body. I realized that my sentience was the mudroom into the house of Samsaral craving. I, too, understood that the wonder of my body coalesced, not into the hard and soft hardware and software within, but into point where there is singularity, like your God Almighty. The point at which I'm free to extrapolate the magic of my joint and several body outward into the holes of space, absorbing the sutras and dharma abstractly without reading a word.

Michael Brecker Quartet🔝🔝 Terrassa Jazz Festival 1999 Part 1

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