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Bicycle Magic

Before sunrise, I steadily wake up. Laying there, a pause persisting, breathing, caught in the dream of sleep. Outstretch like a cat, Eyes opening Qi spreads its way pass every organ, The day is beginning.

Downstairs the black smooth back wheel is seen spokes fanning, disappearing to the outside, with the grand tannish door closing just behind. Up and away we go! The air is a crispy strand, boilin…

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The onion peels itself

I used to think the bears lived in the woods, but now i know they live in my heart. All day i dream about honey, even further away i wish for horny salmon to jump up right into my mouth.

I declare! I will never feel guilty for being me. I am unique, the only one available. My heart is the moon, love be my light through these nights. Blindly, i thought, there must be some sort of meaning out of…

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Awareness of the Powers

Awareness of the Powers

Powers of love. They exist and flow through your veins waiting to be consumed. It is simple like taking a bath. The water naturally slips off of your body without any effort on your part. This is the effort I am trying to convey with the most simple of actions that we do several times in our lives.

Please understand. In actions and repetitions come our very special friends, habits. Oh, how these…

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The Sassy Cow

Two cows were sitting next to each other freely gossiping about the past.

We cows had it the worst, you know? Oh yes! We sure did, but I don´t recall those days so clear, Please tell me more, I would like to hear. From our point of view we have it easy here, sitting and chatting over a cup of tea. But I do say that our ancestors did not enjoy so much as a minute of this tranquility. I remember the…

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Fake New Year

It is so easy to see. Right in front of our eyes and yet we like most people fall for that convenient trap of blindly following old rituals and routines all placed in our lives to ensure we stay out of sync with the natural world. What am I talking about?  A lot! Specifically here and now I am speaking about the New Year holiday that was just celebrated by many misinformed people. I want to tell…

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King Octopus

It is such a terrifying sight to be in his presence, a nightmarish part of me that enjoys his existence, even in my moments of intransigence, I find myself paralyzed, charmed by his essence. There is a place, if you so choose, you may take a look too. A dark palace, with no windows or flowers, no colors nor books, nothing but a shrew. He dawdles upon a throne, towering above the crown, scrutinizin…

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The Fasting Dragon

Why would anyone care about a dragon who does not want to eat? Why did he not want to eat? The food gives him indigestion, he would proclaim. “It does not matter which food I try, everything tastes burnt, I would rather die.”

On a certain day this dragon is flying so high in the air, after a long day of commenting, on the problems of man´s err. The sky is at dusk, with the sun shrinking away, no…

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The Ultimate Fear

What scares you the most might surprise you in the end. It is not what you had thought like when you were a kid, afraid of a boogeyman hiding under your bed. Or even now as a serious grown-up, imagining in your head, Oh! to be alone can be such a dread, no one around to confirm youre not dead. Pain comes in at a close second, but we learn to enjoy torture, so this will not be sufficient. We must…

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Right Reflection A mirror that doesnt judge. It is until we stand in front of it that the clouds of insanity,

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Being Love

Love, is being. There is no doing involved, though the mystery sometimes bemuses us, there is not much to be solved.

It can be so simple as seeing the good in all, for love has no strings, to bind us, to say that this is love, and that is not.

Love creates everything, around you, from the biggest mountain, to the smallest morsel, love created them both, without a single reverance, for one or the…

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Service to the others

Service to the others

What do we mean when we say  to be in service to another? Though we perform services for others on a daily basis most of us are ignorant to the fact that we are receiving services. Everything from the smallest details such as opening doors, washing a plate, putting away groceries, a simple gesture of hello, flushing the toilet, picking up a random piece of garbage, or kindly praying for the well…

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The Veil of Violence Hold it back, all that you believe, and soon the truth reveals what has been concealed amongst you…

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For the Love of Death Oh how I love death, that moment when everything comes to a close. For so long I have tried not thinking about it.

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Baptism do or don´t?

Baptism do or don´t?

Baptized! When did you first get dipped in the holy water? Maybe it has not happened yet and you are thinking about plunging in head first. Perhaps you belong to a certain religion that recommends the baptism of young children and adults. For what ever reason you are here searching for an answer.

Here is an answer. 

Baptism in its true form is a beautiful experience. It is a wonderful occasion in…

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What is No Mind? Do you have a story about your life? If so, this is not no mind. Do you belong to a certain nation, group or race?