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“Tibet”
“Looking around, he saw a landscape of breathtaking beauty. From both sides, spined mountains ran down into a valley of deep green. Straight ahead rose three successive ranges of peaks, each of greater height than its predecessor, and the last poking its peaks right into the belly of the clouds. The clouds were softly contoured […]
Continue reading“Pure Consciousness”
“‘Mahamudra,” Gyatso replied, ‘is the realization of the natural state as awareness-emptiness, absolutely clear and transparent, without root. It is unified and beyond the mind, is clear yet thoughtless, pervasive, and vast like space. Its aspect of great compassion is apparent, yet devoid of any nature. Manifesting clearly like the moon in water, it is […]
Continue reading“Celestial Fireworks”
“When the friends reached the bottom of the trail, they turned to look back at the rocky heights. Through some fluke of atmospheric conditions, the sun behind the mesa was shooting out long filaments of white light, filaments that looked like compressed and radiant contrails from multiple rocket launches. The arc of the sun’s top […]
Continue reading“Greek Sunset”
“The sun was now setting on the rim of the Aegean Sea. The sky showed layered colors of cherry, pale orange, and peppermint. Five clouds, oddly contoured like puzzle pieces fashioned from mist, were painted in hues of flesh and pink and grayish white. A dazzling band of primary yellow lit the far edge of […]
Continue reading“Suffering”
“All we can say for sure is that suffering is inevitable on the path to God. There will be pain and loneliness, sickness and heartbreak for everyone in the world. All we can do is offer up our suffering to God and allow Him to remove the burden from our shoulders. I have seen very […]
Continue reading“The Pacific (cont’d)”
“Skylar felt this close to the earth and its enveloping waters: that he saw them as a pretty porcelain teacup, like the ones his grandmother used (the Meissen ones with sinuate sides painted in purple camaieu), brimful of sloshing tea. What a precious feeling, to be so familiar with the great planet that he might […]
Continue reading“The Pacific”
“As Skylar sat there, arms entwining knees, thought replaced by wonder; as his eyes sailed what looked to be the endless Pacific, he became more intimate with the world than he had ever been. The plunging, chasmed depths of the ocean (inversions of the soaring, colossal peaks of the mountains), rising up to shelves and […]
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