The Pali word, dukkha, means "incapable of satisfying" or "not able to bear or withstand anything": always changing, incapable of truly fulfilling us or making us happy. The sensual world is like that, a vibration in nature. It would, in fact, be terrible if we did find satisfaction in the sensory world because then we wouldn’t search beyond it; we’d just be bound to it.
—AJAHN SUMEDHO, Buddhist teacher (1934-)
Sleep - While we're awake, we share one universe, but in sleep we each turn away to a world of our own. (Nov 05)
Don't Know Mind - Intensity baby teaches us don't-know-mind (Nov 05)
Featureless Landscape? - Life at your feet on the High Plains (Sept 05)
Dung and You - What is the dung? What is the beetle? (Aug 05)
Impermanence - Where are you? Every breath is an exchange with the rest of the world. (July 05)
Big Sky - Sky as a metaphor for mind: empty, boundless, and fundamentally pure, even when obscured by clouds (thoughts and emotions). (June 05)
Monks Rock - this rock, in Myanmar, is said to be held up by a precisely placed hair of the Buddha (June 05)
Reading Faces - always interesting to examine strangers' faces in repose (June 05)