The only thing that bothers me more than retracing my steps is to find myself tracing them again.

The
second
most difficult
thing for
human beings
is to treat
and
remember
every thing
as
sacred.
As
we grow
old into
our
habits
we make
the regrettable
mostly uncon-
scious
mistake
of
taking
things
for granted.

What do you do if you
don't like
the person you're be-
coming?
Send
your self
back
and hope that
you receive
again
a better
model?
The most difficult
thing to accept
for a human being
is that
there is
no return address
for the
mis-
used
life.

The deigo flower has blossomed, and it has called the wind, and the storm has arrived.
The deigo flowers are in full bloom, and they have called the wind, and the storm has come.
The repetition of sadness, like the waves that cross the island.
I met you in the Uji forest.
In the Uji forest I bid farewell to Chiyo.

Island song, ride the wind, with the birds, cross the sea.
Island song, ride the wind, carry my tears with you.
The deigo blossoms have fallen, soft ocean waves tremble.
Fleeting joy, like flowers carried by the waves.
To my friend who sang in the Uji forest.
Beneath the Uji, bid farewell to Yachiyo.
Island song, ride the wind, with the birds, cross the sea.
Island song, ride the wind, carry my love with you.
To the sea, to the universe, to the gods, to life, forever ride on this dusk wind.
Island song, ride the wind, with the birds, cross the sea.
Island song, ride the wind, carry my tears with you.
Island song, ride the wind, with the birds, cross the sea.
Island song, ride the wind, carry my love with you.

translation provided by
bradr14 at www.jpopasia.com
(some corrections made by me)

Language does not convey a person's intention -- its usage only provides evidence that there is one present in a person. Thus we are only half right to believe that a person's 'words and actions' must match up or correspond to each other. In truth, they are inseparable, but we are mistaken to think that they must overlap one another, identify with one another, to have any credence. Were we to recognize them as different aspects of the full spectrum to one's person-ality, we might come to realize that one's character is far deeper than 'words' or 'actions' or their occasionally apperceived consummation.

Thirteen years since our

last meeting

she appears in the

upstairs crowd

i can't believe it

i go to sit next to

her on

the floor

so warm

Then, the house

walls blow out

i'm assured

the central

support

is the strongest

thing need be

And then I realize

she is gone

.

we all think we're crazy the first couple of times. it's certainly scary if you know what it's like. there must be a link between this and the renowned lucid dream -- i'm not sure which i've experienced more often, but i'd love to turn one into the other were it possible.

Dr.

Martin Luther

King Jr. said

,

“Don’t let anyone make you

think that

God has chosen America

as [God's] divine messi

anic force to be reckoned with.”

There are compelling voices who

claim that God

has chosen America (not

the church)

as a special embodiment of hope for

the world, and then

there are times

(perhaps

in more recent history) where it

seems America em

bodies an anti

thesis of what God hopes

for.

U.S. flags

colonize the altars and the money is brand

ed “In God We Trust,” but

the economy is an eerie reflection of the seven deadly sins

listed in scripture, with a culture

dangerously close to the sins of Sodom, a culture the prophet Ezekiel describes as

“arrogant,

overfed, and

unconcerned.”

Given the fact that America and God’s kingdom are

not the same - and

are often at odds - how do

we resist the temptation

of thinking

that America, rather

than God or God’s

church, is the hope of the world?

-- "Questions for an Empire's Candidates"

by Shane Claiborne
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

A street chant

to quake

one

sea-weed green

shingle

off

your neighbor's

roof ---

the pre-agential

one,

if only

because

it lacked the

life

span

to know

to act,

a mutatedmutating,

a gelatin-center

wax bean float-

ing in the deadly

still waters

of nobody,

eatinganddying

mouth less

absorption

until its

no-eye

body collapses

disintegrates

disinterested and

seen by

no one

------- before

the

miracle:

one touch

multicellular adhesion

extraterritorializing compilation,

progressive patterning

of the deoxy-

nucleic that

learned

the

art&power

of

atomic anatomic

reformation ----

the logic of touch

---- cell upon

cell upon

cellup

on,

inside our

apartment rooms

our refridgerators

our bathrooms

our bigtv living

rooms

Can you see?

Can you see?

the chant through

the window

to wake

up to

a mess

on the floor

and my passion to

clean the

outside

soto

&

uchi,

because we touched,

to want for

one without

the other

our egoist and altruist,

or the primitivist deconstruct-

ionist

a desire to

explode,

and the one who

cleans before cleaning

our biobuddhist

and

contemporary

onlooker.

There is nothing wrong with seeking happiness or peace of mind. It is the natural motivation behind all our thoughts and actions. Where we have gone wrong is in assuming that whether or not we are at peace depends upon what is happening in the world around us. ...

This attachment to the material world as our primary source of happiness lies at the root of much of the craziness that humanity perpetuates upon the world. It is this that leads us to consume resources we do not need, to treat other people as elements in an equation, to discharge our refuse out of sight, and to mistreat and abuse our own bodies.

...

If we are to stop abusing our world we need to let go of our attachments. ... In a state of non-attachment we no longer believe that what we have or do will provide the peace that we seek. As a result we are free to care more fully for other people, and for all living beings.

Thus the most important fight of all at this crucial stage in our evolution is not the fight against hunger, the fight against inflation, the fight against pollution, or the fight against corrupt governments. Each is very necessary and cannot be relaxed. However, they will not be won until we have also won the fight within ourselves: the struggle between our self-centered mode of thinking and the inner knowing that there is more to life than gratifying our ego-centric needs.

－　The Global Brain Awakens,
Peter Russell

「きみのところの人たちは」と王子さまは言った、「たった１つの庭で５０００本のバラを育てている……それでも自分たちが探しているものを見つけられない……」

"The people of your world," said the Little Prince, "grow 5000 roses in a single garden... And yet they can't find the one special thing they are searching for..."

「そうなんだ」とぼくは答えた。

"Yes," I answered.

「みんなが探しているものはたった１本のバラやほんの少しの水の中に見つかるのに……」

"Even though that one special thing can be found in just one rose or the littlest bit of water..."

「そのとおりだ」とぼくは言った。

"It's true," I said.

王子さまはこう付け足した ---

The Little Prince replied with this ---

「目に見えないんだ。心で探さないとだめなのさ」

"It can't be seen with the eye. It can't be searched for by any other way than the heart."

－　『星の王子さま』

Le Petit Prince (my translation),

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is not that we lie to ourselves, but rather - the self is the lie we truth to."

-- a soulmate

a traveling beehive

they fill the niches as if

you were a cup in

-

the ocean

-

.

just what world is

this,

that even over 6 billion

people

can't see,

where common sense

is the least common

thing here

?

what is this

world

that even in

the silence

of

death,

no voice can be

heard?

to treat what is minoritarian as though it were majoritarian is, besides unfitting, both actually condescending and counter-progressive. it lies, and through lying feigns absolute equality, which is really homeomorphic deception. that is, it assumes -- and propagandizes the assumption -- that there is no significant difference between the former and latter, thus the former need only accept the (false) given -- that is, 'shared' -- conditions of their relations with the latter.

it's the path of least resistance for neocolonialist agenda. there must be friction if there is to be change in favor of anyone or anything beyond these in power. and there must, at key times, be acceptance of this friction, by those who feel the heat of it.

The reason hope prevails at all costs, when
it does, is that

it accompanies the most reason

able sense of how the world should progress,

provided your key ass

ump

tion is that the most import

ant and overriding comp

on

ents

of the uni

verse are harm

ony, peace, integrity

, happi

ness and love

.

But the world most of

ten see

ms to defy the un

iverse of these

-- or perhap

s

everyone's sense of what these things are

con

tra

dicts their family's, neigh

bors', fri

end

s' and lovers'.

Per

haps the dream of one m

an or woma

n trying to see -- or share -- a bigger picture of how these things

work is a lost

cause. But then, there's hope for that too, isn

't there.

.

.

.

.

sometimes i wish
that the night
could last for days