ever changing times

Ever Changing Times

It's an ever changing time
I see, that clock upon the wall
Well it don't bother me at all
It's an ever changing time

And me, ever changing time
Everything is going so much faster
It seems like I'm
Watching my life, and everything I do
Wonder if the dreams that I believed in
Still come true

Caught in between, it comes back to
You and me running out of time, I gotta find me a better understanding
Everything keeps forgetting whats mine, I gotta find me a way, less-demanding
And we're holding on so tight, together, all of our lives

And I, I had some big idea
So much of my life, still not completed
Hopes and Fears
Watching it change, into something new
Wondering if Im gonna find the answer, loving you

All of my life, it comes back to
You and me running out of time, I gotta find me a better understanding
Everything keeps forgetting whats mine, I gotta find me a way, less-demanding
And we're holding on so tight, together, all of our lives

I see, that clock upon the wall, well it dont bother me at all
It's a ever changing time


Performed by: Aretha Franklin

seeing

This is the supreme seeing: seeing what was not seen before.


Dudjom Rinpoche

spiritual path

There is the path of wisdom
and the path of ignorance.
They are far apart and lead to different ends...
Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned,
fools go aimlessly hither and thither like the blind led by the blind.
What lies beyond life shines not to those who are childish, or careless,
or deluded by wealth.


Katha Upanishad

salter's tree

Huge Elm thy rifted trunk all notched and scarred
Like to a warrior's destiny - I love
To stretch me often on such shadowed sward
And hear the sighs of summer leaves above
Or on thy buttressed roots to sit and lean
In careless attitude and there reflect
On times and deeds and darings that have been
Old cast aways now swallowed in neglect
While thou art towering in thy strength of heart
Stirring the soul to vain imaginings
In which life's sordid being hath no part
The wind in that eternal ditty sings
Humming of future things that burns the mind
To leave some fragment of itself behind.


John Clare

endless wanderings

Mesmerized by the sheer variety of perceptions,
beings wander endlessly astray in samsara's vicious cycle.


Jikme Lingpa

right speech

Before admonishing another, one should reflect this...
In due season will I speak, not out of season.
In truth will I speak, not in falsehood.
For his benefit will I speak, not his loss.
Gently will I speak, not harshly.
In kindness will I speak, not anger.


Vinaya

precious transience

"... infinitely precious in their very transience."


Thomas Bien

water n ice

"On the path of practice, knowledge is an obstacle that must be overcome.
We must be ready to abandon our knowledge at any moment in order
to get to a higher level of understanding."

Thich Nhat Hanh

We may consider the perspective of water and ice.
A living encounter is water, continually flowing, always ready to take new shape.
Knowledge is ice: hardened, fixed.
Being mindful means the ice of our knowledge to melt into the living water of a
personal encounter with another human being.
It is only in such an encounter that true healing takes place.

Thomas Bien

courageous speech

Courageous speech has always held us in awe.


David Whyte