Aftermath

Reinvention

(Dharma) Bread Crumb #7 There are times when something so sad, so terrible, so shocking gets hold of us that our breath seems to leave and we can’t even cry. In the aftermath of these events – whether their scope is personal, global or anything between — it is often beneficial to reassess our “picture” … Read more

Looking

(Dharma) Bread Crumb #6 You look at a flower. If you pay attention to the flower, your experience is scientific. If you pay attention to the witness of the flower, it becomes spiritual. A scientist and a spiritual man may be standing side-by-side, looking at the same event, being as they normally “are” . . … Read more

Grace

(Dharma) Bread Crumb #5 Grace. It is existential . . . always there. It is a part of life – nobody gives it, but you can get it. No person or people can prevent it from reaching you, except you. If you don’t create an armor around yourself, it reaches, it manifests. Without armor we … Read more

Mind Light

(Dharma) Bread Crumb #4 The whole world need not be filled with light for you to walk – just your own mind. A little flame, and that’s enough, because that light will light enough of a path for you to walk. A small flame in the mind of awareness, mindfulness . . . that’s enough. … Read more

The Mirror

(Dharma) Bread Crumb #3 If you have fear of yourself, only then are you afraid of other people. If, in the pure sense of love, you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. Consider that in relationship with others, it is only you mirrored. The other is nothing but a … Read more

Morning Breeze

(Dharma) Bread Crumb #2 Consider the difference between feeling sad and being sad . . . and then choose the one that will best enable you, upon waking up in the morning, to cross the bedroom, open a window and let the sweet breeze in . . . letting it touch you all over your … Read more