Mirror Moments

Grounded euphoria increases generosity.
Grouded generosity increases euphoria.

A Facebook friend posted the first line, and one of her other FBFs posted the second.

Both are true, I added in my own comment. Both are necessary. Both happen. I think they are simultaneous, like reflections in a mirror.

There is an insight in here about the joyful side of dependent origination.

If you aren't familiar with dependent origination, it is one of the Buddha's fundamental teachings -- that everything we see, touch, and experience is not a separate "thing," but a momentary confluence of factors that are themselves momentary confluences of other factors, which are themselves momentary etc., on and on into infinity, an ocean of motions, meetings and partings.

Grounding with this (stillness, silence, breath) becomes a quiet euphoria, a joy. Generosity then allows the multitude of events and happenings to simply happen,and pass away.

And after a while there is no separation between the euphoria, the generosity, and the grounding.

Namaste

Availability Update

Hey, Everybody,

YU will hit Kindle by July 26. If you like to buy online, pre-publication orders can be made on Amazon.com starting sometime next week.

Keep reading!

She's Done!

Okay, the chapters are now posted and I christen thee WEB SITE! Bon voyage!

Step by Step

The proofs for YU: A Ross Lamos Mystery have at last been finalized, and will now be Kindle-ized. So when will it be up in pixilated lights on Amazon.com? You'll be the first to know.

In the meantime, it's July in Bloomington, Indiana, which is the time of year when the town stretches, takes its shoes off and sets its bare feet up on the coffee table. EveryWhere is more relaxed and comfortable with itself. The University students are few, traffic is light, it's easy to avoid the city's road repairs. Sitting on the streetside terrace of a coffeeshop with a freshly-juiced fruit drink, under a clear sunset sky with just a trace of humidity in the warmth, there are lots of people on the sidewalks but all are suffused with a quiet joy; Now is the only moment, the moment we will always return to for a memory of when we felt in love with nothing in particular but everything at once.