The Water Vase

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• Novels
  • A Checkerboard of Nights and Days
  • It Is What It Is
• Stories
  • Non-Fiction Vignettes
    • Dunkin Donuts experience
    • A weird, cool thing
    • Another unusual thing
    • Whoa! Trisonic!
  • Short Fiction
    • The Paraduck of Zeno
• Poems
  • The Exile’s Way
    • The Exile’s Way
    • To let go of future & past
    • Being without perturbation
    • Long-abiding peace
    • Breathing art of a life
  • Light
    • A kind of dense cathedral light
  • Water
    • River Waves
    • Green hills twist to flat beach
    • A sea of reeds and wet lake bed
    • I was a fisher with a hook
    • On all of the great shores
    • On a fortress island in the sea
    • The ice does not come
    • I have traversed those seas
    • I am a very long river
    • Debris collects
    • Crow vulture Jane
  • Growth
    • This is pine country
    • Destination
  • Flight
    • Fleeing, yes, fleeing
    • And you'd better fly away
    • The moon was earlier a feather
    • You are no more than a wisp of air
    • Blow, breeze, blow
    • Sense the sharp wind
    • Fireflies
  • Rest After Motion
    • A Narcissist
    • These days fold into each other
    • Woven together
    • Straight line an hour’s long
    • One day too many, I sat astride
    • The tearful world cannot bind me
    • The trains pass as the seconds
  • Pleasures Unknown
    • Your pattern is stenciled
    • A history on the lost labor of love
    • Never had a craft
  • Preposterous
    • Ancient Greece became
    • On a day of things preposterous
    • L’enfer nous entoure
    • Debris collects
    • Between
  • Some Haikus
• Essays
  • Who?
    • What you call "you"
    • Take the question “Who am I?"
    • So big and so small
    • You make yourself
    • You have to be Self-absorbed
    • Some people are children
    • We think we’re in a special time
    • Capital "You" is the ocean
    • Two sandcastles on a beach
    • All your successes in the end
  • Who again?
    • Consciousness
    • A measly 40,000 years of art
    • We cannot fight
    • You are all alone, but...
    • Simple rules to abide by
  • What is the universe?
    • The universe creates itself
    • Size of the known universe
    • The cosmological argument
    • The unknowable
    • The double-slit experiment
    • A frightening thought
  • Compassion
    • Compassion vs. love
    • Compassion is not the same
    • It is very dangerous to your health
  • Ahimsa ("non-harm")
    • Philosophy of Ahimsa
    • All paths converge on Ahimsa
    • It's a funny thing, this Ahimsa
    • The most ahimsa decision
    • Some good general precepts
    • Bhagavad Gita: true allegory
  • Cruelty and Suffering
    • "Trivial” suffering
    • Evil is gratuitous cruelty
    • This is the nihilism
  • Creation and Destruction
    • Self-creation without beginning
    • The universe is an impulse
    • Not good vs. evil
  • Sleep
    • When waking from sleep
    • Sleep may be a mechanism...
    • Sleeping is the original state
  • History and Society
    • A letter to capitalism
    • Choose not to go to war
    • A pivotal moment
    • Humans pretty much
    • Native Americans now
    • Word!
    • Execrable debate
    • Change in the air
• Thoughts
  • Observations
    • Beautiful Paradoxes
    • I've noticed some things
    • It's funny when people say
    • Self-realization is analog
    • Codependent Relationships
  • Declarations
    • Why a more spiritual life?
    • Being young overrated
    • I am a non-dualist
    • Breakthrough
    • F* it. I am tired of suffering.
    • Absolutely NO reason to waste...
    • Real Rock Bottom
  • Exhortations
    • Please do this now!
    • Life is very easy
    • Nip the Negative in the Bud
    • Right now
    • Certainty? Ha!
    • I feel dumped by the world
    • Relax...
    • Why be a pessimist?
    • Let your guard down
    • Every day is like...
  • Spiritual Practices & Methods
    • Becoming a witness or observer
    • This is a neat little mediation trick
  • Modern Madness
    • Mind-boggling!
    • Bizarro world!
    • Nature, a black screen?
  • Epigrams
  • Snippets
    • A compassionate society
    • Now I am always lucky
    • Everything can be
    • I'm in the subway...
    • Voice calling
    • Limitless light
    • When they say that the universe is...
    • You only have to look
    • The story of the Titanic
    • Halfness
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