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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:29:55 -0800

Is all you have to say available from your Vocabulary and moving aroundly? What about the urban grandma Formularia?

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:33:08 -0800

The bodies were from three men recently killed. The blood had gone along its small tiny river way to settling. Looking at the bodies, I realized the inconvenience death is. I also wonder about the aftermath of various ways of dying. But then I awake to the futility of those kinds of questions. We should craft the questions we utter to deal with things that matter. Maybe it's enough just to give a nod and small prayer for the person gone, deceased. For the living, grieving is there in pretty close proximity to the person's passing. The emotions of that loss will likely fade, though sometimes the hole opened by a loss will ever be filled. Closeness must dissipate, in their own time, slowly if that's what it takes. There are healthy ways of good-bye for an important person. Important meaning they tended to and offered the very things that energize us all on this planet. Sorrow must run wherever it does. If honest intention is applied, and the punches of loss are kept in perspective, things will all settle down. This is a story hard to tell.

Those who have died have passed on, wearing smooth the stones. We've cut ourselves in churning water. Our bodies have been cold and shaking with fear and warm, distracted, and unfocused except for the immediate goal in mind.

But we're peasants, really. Any idea of being special should have long burned out slowly. In the burning there is still much light, and even fading, it stands in darkness.

Kabhir-John Price (musings in the journal)

Mind - Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake - NYTimes.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:37:22 -0800

Dreaming made me know art.

Lord Jesus Christ on the Judgement Throne

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:01:19 -0800

Recognizing the cultural base, but the feeling over such time is very comforting to me, a late middle-age Catholic with a Buddhist and Sufi inclination.

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:06:41 -0800

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Give us peace, and do not accept the value of walls.

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Could be any wall,
lots are in our human history
and some say they make good friends,
But I don't know about that
Tho I've pondered it for decades.

Sometimes I realize the wall is mine,
then I step back and try to look it through.

If I am on the ball, I remember my old poem
about the Wall-Splitter,
who spent his life trying to knock down that wall,

But who in death realized it wasn't about breaking it down,

But about climbing over,
No bricks knocked through,
No bodies lain.

Kabhir-John Price (into the poems; 1972, 2009)

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:17:40 -0800

The man continues to amaze. His poetry is right there -- wherever that is--but right there.

Green Choices

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:47:24 -0800

The latest in paper.

http://scenenewspaper.com/green-choices/32-green-choices/66-buddhist-adviser.html

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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)