Pancakes

Never underestimate anything. Even the smallest and simplest of things tell the whole story. Take pancakes for example.

Nameless

I moved. About seven weeks ago I moved from the woods to a small town. Now I live in a normal house again. With all the wonders of the modern world available to me. Like a toilet in the house. Warm running water. A refrigerator. And a streetlamp outside for when it gets dark.

The Smallest of Things

Thick fog reveals Jupiter but only when I look up. It’s pitch black out there. And so quiet. No light whatsoever. Except for Jupiter that is.

Who needs flowers anyway – Haiku #28

Today’s light was of such a brilliance it captured my whole being:

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October 13th – Haiku #27

I will just let this Autumn morning tell her own story here:

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Nowhere to abide – Haiku #26

It was already after sunset. There was only a 4 days old, young moon that rested low on the horizon just before it would disappear too. I was walking with my dog. A small flashlight lit my path right before me. At moments I would lift up the thin bundle of light and let it dance at random over what ever surrounded me.

All of a sudden I spotted two tiny ghosts that got captured in the little light that came from my lamp.

The Eightfold Path #4, Right Action – “Stop”

And what is right action? Abstaining from taking life, abstaining from stealing, abstaining from unchastity. This is called right action.” – Sutta Nipata XLV 8

When I took the five precepts at my Jukai ?, I didn’t know that they were directly related to the Noble Eightfold Path. As it turns out the first three precepts are describing what to do for ‘right action’, or rather what not to do since the precepts are about not doing.