Truth is Everywhere

Gill Washington Buddhist Writings, Lama Surya Das, Seeking, Truth June 17, 2014foolish, infinite, sacred places, young 0 Comment

From Awakening to the Sacred

By Lama Surya Das

When I was young, and even more foolish than I am today, I believed that one had to travel far and wide in order to seek truth, divine reality, or whatever you call it. I believed that truth would most likely be found in the world’s so-called sacred places. Yet the fact is that truth is everywhere; it knows no religious, cultural, temporal, or ethnic bounds. Truth is the perfect circle. Its center is everywhere; its circumference stretches into infinite space. The land on which we stand is sacred, no matter where we stand.

The Tao Te Ching says: Without going out of my door I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I can know the ways of heaven.

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I lay me down and slumber

Gill Washington A. E. Housman, Poems, Spirituality April 26, 2014breathing, dreamland, foolish, kind 0 Comment

From More Poems

by A. E. Housman

XIII

I lay me down and slumber
And every morn revive.
Whose is the night-long breathing
That keeps a man alive?

When I was off to dreamland
And left my limbs forgot,
Who stayed at home to mind them,
And breathed when I did not?

. . . . .

— I waste my time in talking,
No heed at all takes he,
My kind and foolish comrade
That breathes all night for me.

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