Awake in This Life

Over at the elephant journal, Waylon Lewis shares some smile material with this one:

This brilliant, almost-too-subtle (just a line at bottom) ad campaign was created by UNCLE Grey A/S Denmark. It vividly reminds us that in getting up off the couch, in working our butts off for the benefit of others, no matter the setbacks…it’s all worth it.

Even if we don’t amount to half or 1/100th of Mandela, Gandhi, or the Dalai Lama, at least it won’t be for a lack of trying, and a surfeit of surfing, skiing and barbecuing!

Oh, the humanity…

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Cade and Grandpa Don navigating moments on stairs. Nirvana.

Infinite Smiles
An amazing weekend by any measure. Committed practitioners, natural beauty, stillness. It all worked together to offer an open expanse.
Bows.

This shot was taken about twenty minutes before an amazing rain washed over the Santa Cruz mountains, as well as the rest of the Bay Area. Cool environment in which to meditate.

Morning visitors through my window…

While the screen gets in the way here, after our second morning meditation, about fifteen deer came through the grounds browsing for food. We invited them to sit with us but they declined. The alpha male of the group mentioned something about lent.

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”

-from the Nietzsche Family Circus

Or, as other bodhisattvas might just as easily say: certitude leads to war.

Bows, The Daily Dish

This list cracked me up. Be sure to check it out and scroll down,

(Bows to the worst horse)

It was a beautiful day for an intensive at San Damiano Monastery.

The flame burns brighter when a Buddha meets a Buddha.

Wow. We’re as big as Andromeda! How could I ever be worried about whether my socks match?

It’s worth the wait to expand this picture.

70 years young. Keep inspiring, Dad.

Love,

Michael