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Vibration am I
with others
nothing more
conversing
across the generations

:- Doug.

Symbols: not empty of meaning to those who stand within.

:- Doug.

Hint. Say not the whole. Leave an empty space for the hearer’s meaning to arise.

:- Doug.

You find your lesson
I only show the way

:- Doug.

My mind this morning was insistent on thinking! I practiced watching my breath for about two hours in bed. I only probably watched a couple dozen breaths or so! And the things I thought: things I had not thought in years, or even brand new things. Most inconsequential or worries or things to do. Keep practicing!

:- Doug.

Teaching discovery is evocative for me, leads me on. This way I can learn from all others, help all others. Inner discovery, conversational. Meeting one another in the profounds.

:- Doug.

Simply use less words, not stepping on their paths, inviting by spirit and presence. Have patience that there is depth meeting in there and that it will out.

:- Doug.

Teach less: learn him or her.

:- Doug.

Silence opens.

:- Doug.

The teacher stands unmoved, offers sparse words, opens way. Student finds path.

:- Doug.

Start on the way, hazard new transformations, accept deaths and some rebirths, every day.

:- Doug.

The truth I write assumes a hundred shapes and forms.

:- Doug.

Turn toward one another, inwardly.

:- Doug.

An inward movement of discovery, an inward meeting: that is what I teach.

:- Doug.

Don’t teach what you have discovered: teach discovery.

:- Doug.

Gracefully now, gracefully older.

:- Doug.

Bring me toys if I get to experience dementia. As I progress backwards through my decades, bring me things to occupy my happy moments: travel brochures when I am again in my 50s, tax return forms and calculators when I am reliving my 40s, nails and two by fours for my 30s, books for my twenties, cameras and magic tricks for my teens, chess pieces when I am 10, potholders and blocks when I am again under 5.

:- Doug.

Elders say the darnedest things.

:- Doug.

How old do you want to live to be?

:- Doug.

Do we dare wish to travel the road to death? Can we be curious—even supremely curious—about it?

:- Doug.

What is your most essential thing? About dying?

:- Doug.

If we see ourselves not as objects rather as the flow of a great conversation—and integral to the conversation as well—how does that change us? Do we become possible? Do we touch the controls? Are we any more the center of the universe, and yet in a larger way more at its center?

:- Doug.

Is the worry that you will get too much treatment, or too little?

:- Doug.