A Few Things
for your consideration...

William Carlos Williams

Do not pursue the past
Do not lose yourself in the future
The past no longer is.
The future has yet to come.

Looking deeply at life as it is
in the very here and now,
the practitioner dwells
in stability and freedom.

We must be diligent today.
To wait for tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?

The sage calls a person who knows
how to dwell in mindfulness
night and day
"one who knows the better way to be alone."

adapted from the Bhaddekarratta Sutta
translated by Thich Nhat Hanh

Reader, suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.

P.S. -
ix-nay on the onica-may

It is easier for a tortoise
to put its neck into the hole of a yoke
tossed about in the middle of the ocean
than to find a human existence
- the teacher of gods and humans has said.

How much more difficult it is
to find a precious human body
that is a unique occasion and the right juncture!

Therefore, from today onwards
you just have to make efforts.

Remember, The Dalai Lama never worked retail