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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:43:42 -0800

In order to dig a hole you must first have solid ground to dig into.

Kabhir-John Price (musings in the journal)

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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:04:48 -0800

You can want something all you can, but that has nothing to do with it happening. Then if it does turn out the way you want, you have to be very careful not to assume it was your wanting that made it happen.

Kabhir-John Price (musings in the journal)

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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:23:17 -0700

Please realize the context:::I am a Zen practitioner, and the image of lily is a peaceful anchor, usually set on a simple altar at the center of the zendo (for a particular type of set-up); so, don't take the poem as negative. It's very positive in a koanic sense.

Capture the Lily

Throw out the town
Wear down the mountain
Erase all the clowns

Be aghast at the neighbors
Harbor your hate
Nestle your anger

In your misery, wait. . .
Capture
The lily

Kabhir-John Price (2007)

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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:31:10 -0700

"It's always fun 'til I get hurt." - Old Wisconsin saying

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What is the ultimate message I can give, the one that will show how deep and meaningful this all is?

Think about it, and if you give enough of yourself, you will know.

What is the ultimate message, the ultimate lesson?
You know.

Kabhir-John Price (from Heart)

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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:33:58 -0700

It's all in the question of why
why, where, no where

It falls upon my rocks
and breaks so much I can hear it

Then it falls into the water
broken apart
to where it floats off

Kabhir-John Price (into the poems; 2009)

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:11:29 -0700

We try so hard to touch the thing that makes us
reveling in splendor our unique questions

But then we come to know the breast has tamed us
So we fly into our dreams to hold the stories
we have lost

And in just a flicker note of random love
we raise our heads to see the eye in silence
the many things that we have loved

It's then that in our sensor nerves
we ask
for what again

Never waking
walking walking resting

waiting here til longing
slowly fades

Kabhir-John Price (into the poems; 2009)

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:01:18 -0700

I insist on making mockery of the incidents
no I make them bigger than life or memory

Standing at the door between the police
and the big city street gang
in the bedroom
Knowing each will shoot if I let the police in
and I would surely die
I convince the police to leave

Or watching my son be born
not knowing the intensity
of flesh cutting
going on to get him here

Then so much later
Seeing the little boy in the library
Gee dad, could I
I'd like to
I need to go to the bathroom
but I know where it is

I want to look into the father's eyes
quietly
without seeming weird
and tell him
please know that this moment
with your son
is amazingly precious and divine

But I stay silent
filing memories
and advice
for here

this poem.

Kabhir-John Price (into the poems; 2009)

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:08:14 -0700

A Rock Monastery in Tibet "All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable end, which is sorrow: acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births, in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisition and heaping up, and building, and meeting; and faithful to the commands of an eminent guru, set about realizing the Truth (which has no birth or death)."

Milarepa

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I love the smell of comfort in the room, even under the gaze of an acetic.

Kabhir-John Price

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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:04:25 -0700

You couldn't save me then,
but neither of us knew there was no saving.

Would you try to save me now?

Would we both have the wisdom to know?

Kabhir-John Price (musings in the journal)

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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:02:04 -0700

What is worse?
To have, and have it taken away,
or to have not, ever?

Think about the grammar:
"to have"?

And what do we have?

Kabhir-John Price (musings in the journal)