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    Shells on a beach. The Illusion of Self.

    • Realize that the world, while so tangible to the mind, is a dream - an illusion.
    • Realize that the mind, hard at work manufacturing the world, is of no permanent essense.
    • Realize that everything that arises will also pass away. This includes moments, thoughts, your life and skinned knees.
    • Realize that all skinned knees and lives are here due to conditions. These conditions are multi-faceted and intractable.
    • Realize words are just words, actions are just actions and thoughts are just thoughts.
    • Realize that words are just thoughts and that thoughts are just actions.
    • Realize that all words, thoughts and actions in turn cause other words, thoughts and actions.
    • Realize that the elimination of all words, thoughts and actions does not eliminate results. In actuality, they cause different results.
    • Realize that love and loss, pain and pleasure, life and death are all conditioned and of the same overall essense.
    • Realize that friends who provide pleasure will hinder your practice and enemies who provide pain will, in turn, progress it. 
    • Realize that the striving for anything is attachment. This includes spiritual striving, striving after pleasure and gum chewing.
    • Realize that the roots of enlightenment are deeply sunk into the soil of samsara. To pull those roots is just cessation, not liberation.
    • Realize that everything is devoid of meaning except what we place upon it.
    • Realize that all is empty and laugh.
    • Stop laughing. You look like an idiot.


    Specks of paint on a wall,
         we define or illuminate nothing.
    Actions devoid of any nature of self,
         moments as numerous as beach sand.
    Shells collected and placed on the altar of Mind,
         memories are the illusion of self.

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    • 20 July 2011
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    10 months ago Karen Maezen Miller responded:
    Realize that a day at the beach is always well spent. Thank you.
    10 months ago Jack Daw responded:
    Jack Daw
    For some reason @kmaezenmiller, I am having images of D-Day flashing through my head...
    10 months ago Karen Maezen Miller responded:
    Images in your head are your problem!
    10 months ago Jack Daw responded:
    Jack Daw
    Images in the head are all of our problem. Thus is the way of the bodhisattva. :D
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    I am a Zen Buddhist practitioner from the humble stretches of the South Jersey lowlands who is now an expatriate to the Great Plains of South Dakota – Buddhist Purgatory. I am a mediator, writer, folk poet, librarian hobgoblin, occasional scientist, father of two little dakinis and a steady burner of birch logs.

    This blog represents the inklings and remnants of my stumbling through Buddhist Purgatory. In the words of Dogen, I endeavor to "just write what is in your heart. You contribute to Buddhism if the truths are there." In that spirit, I hope they are of some meager benefit to you or at least enough to earn me a free beer when we run into each other.

  • About Jack Daw

    I am a Zen Buddhist practitioner from the humble stretches of the South Jersey lowlands who is now an expatriate to the Great Plains of South Dakota – Buddhist Purgatory. I am a mediator, writer, folk poet, librarian hobgoblin, occasional scientist, father of two little dakinis and a steady burner of birch logs.

    This blog represents the inklings and remnants of my stumbling through Buddhist Purgatory. In the words of Dogen, I endeavor to "just write what is in your heart. You contribute to Buddhism if the truths are there." In that spirit, I hope they are of some meager benefit to you or at least enough to earn me a free beer when we run into each other.

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