Please forgive
if I ever hurt you
or even hit you
made mistakes
now I do apologize
but we can’t be sorry
for lessons learned
at long last maybe
a heart a little wiser
after all the letting go
a pair of thistle-finches
come share breakfast
as rains flush the past
holding on in dreams
a mini statue broken
to fix it all personally
like a great equivalent
incense bowl cleaned
all pressures released
moments of being home
with trees as living guardians
contemplating where we are
at home in the loving heart
please forgive that I ask
that you forgive me all
as I work on the same
“Nirodha blues” — dance of the trees
Words of a wise heart
To be wise, we have to examine our intention to ensure that it is free from delusion. The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some “good”, they are almost certainly deluded… If they are based on a distinction between “us” and “them”, they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.
The Buddha instructs its followers, “Like a skilled carpenter who removes a course peg by knocking it out with a fine one, so a person removes a pain-producing thought by substituting a beautiful one.” …
“And when there still arise patterns of unskillful thought, the danger that thoughts will cause pain and suffering should be clearly visualized. Then, naturally, like the abandonment of rotting garbage, the mind will turn from these thoughts and become steady, quiet, clear.”
— The Wise Heart, Jack Kornfield, p. 264 & 301
Shack and clouds high above the worldly jumble
