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. Carry too many thoughts about “how things are” with you… and you won’t ever actually see where you are going!
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The center of attention… photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Explosion of compassion!… photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. The giver is the gift. The seer is the seen. The helping is the love.
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Morning Glory by the woods… Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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Being in the unseen… Photo by Thomas Peace 2014
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. In compassion, space and distance disappear. In indifference, thick walls of separation divides the perceiver from others.
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Busy as a Bee… bumble bee … by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Thought (i.e., thinking) cannot make itself profoundly silent; what is conditioned cannot — by itself (or through mind-formulated systems) — ever create the unconditioned. The conditioned naturally — effortlessly — ceases as quiet insight flowers. A silence that is the product of a calculating mind — or of a predetermined system — is a limited, dead kind of silence. Intelligence (seeing the dangers of merely being constituted of limited, conditioned patterns) may come upon genuine silence… but not by “making it happen.”
That is true silence’s intrinsic beauty.
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U R the Sunshine in my life… byThomas Peace 2013
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. One of the reasons that there are (and were) so few true bodhisattvas (i.e., enlightened entities) is that only the immature cling to (or deliberately avoid) experience… while wisdom is neither just being nor not being… (nor is it endless “becoming.”)
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Wild Iris Rarity… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. The deepest truth exists in you yourself… not in books.
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Beyond books… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Inner integrity and caring awareness are the real and true treasures in life.
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Priceless… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. True peace comes (blossoming) when our divisions and separations end and global compassion begins.
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True togetherness… by Thomas Peace 2013
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. Though this may be disquieting to a rather superficial, timid mind, it need not be:
There is not — though there certainly may seem to be — a true, central “controller” of thought; it (i.e., the “I” or the “me”) is just another thought; all thoughts are conditioned and all thoughts are limited reactions. When thoughts — via an intelligence that is universal and not their own — (at certain times throughout the day) die to themselves (without the spurious effort of a fictitious central regulator)… then profound wisdom (in, and “as”, insightful silence) may flower. Self deception — as the internal chicanery of the brain to itself — manifests easily, and this explains why innumerable minds often (unfortunately) blunder in the deceptiveness of control via a “central authority.” Methods and procedures (fabricated by a deceptive process) inevitably are a lack of true order and all such reactions (like a dog chasing its tail) inherently take time. Reactions and time cannot create what is whole, truly blissful, and timeless. Shadows cannot (and never will) manifest sunlight.
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After the Big Bang… by Thomas Peace 2013
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To remain in dull routine is not deep intelligence. Most, unfortunately, do (whether they truly realize it or not) remain in dull routine. To go beyond the realm of sequential patterns and images is to intelligently go (now and then) beyond “thinking” and “dull routine”; monotonous boredom depends on the same, sequential routines. All thoughts are (and must, by natural law, always be) residual reactions that are conditioned, sequential routines. Silence truly is golden. (One cannot choose to be truly silent; the “choice” — wishing silence — is part of the conditioned sequence of thinking, and thinking cannot create true silence; silence must — on its own — take place naturally, without effort.)
All methods of practice to get to silence (including the various techniques of “meditation”) are essentially false; all methods are man-made sequential routines, and no sequential paradigm (or decision by conditioned thought) can create the beauty of true silence. What is residual — sequential and, hence, fragmentary and second-hand — cannot create (or automatically lead one to) what is not part of a sequential paradigm and what is dynamically whole. There is no path to the pathless. A method or system may get one to a dead thing; but no calculated means can take one to that wholeness that is beyond a cause/effect continuum.
One more very important thing: You can add a “no,” after “lead,” in the following poem.
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. seeker of truth
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. truth is here
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Miraculously just being by Thomas Peace 2013
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. from Emily Dickinson:
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. The words the happy say
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Flowering Moment by Thomas Peace 2013
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