Judgement
The instant I become judgmental
my awareness wilts.
I become a shallow, self-righteous and predictable consumer,
void of creation,
one of the faceless flock,
blithely skipping into the abyss.
sporting one big fat Buddha smile
Equinox Sunrise 2012 This morning, I satisfied a nerdy metaphysical side of my consciousness by getting up before dawn, so that I could mark the exact angle or azmith of the sunrise on this spring equinox. Civilizations throughout history have built structures that aligned with the sun's position at critical times during the year. Making something that visually marks the seasonal passage of time has been on my to-do list for awhile. The day before, I constructed a flat disk with a center peg, welded and cemented it into my garden. When the sun peaked the horizon this morning, the peg cast a shadow. Where the shadow crossed the lip of the disk, I cla mped another small verticle peg for welding later. Having done this, I looked up and saw that these first rays of sunlight were also pouring right down the center of the arbored path, and at the end of it, the Yin Yang gate was ablaze in sunlight! I had originally intended to make a rose design on that g...
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