Paintings

You may feel
You cannot paint well.
You may even be right.

You're just moving
The brush.
Intending with your heart
To express yourself.

It is only the divine
Creating, expressing
Through you.
What paints is more
Than yourself.
Seeing through mind
You cannot conceive it
Or conceive of it.

And boy
Can It paint.

Fear

Walls usually aren't a problem,
Except for prisoners, because
People know how to walk around them.
Fear is to the mind, what
A wall is to the body.
Except - the only person who can
Wall off your mind - is you.
Do not be imprisoned by fear.

A man visited a monastery
And asked the monk to show him around
The monk showed him one student, praying
That one asks naught for himself,
The monk said. He is too arrogant.
A second student was seen, also praying.
That one asks naught for himself,
The monk said. He is too humble.
And yet a third student was seen,
Lost in blissful meditation.
Does she one pray for herself?
The man asks. The monk smiled,
That one asks naught for herself,
She knows no lack in herself.
She is enlightened.

Maps

Mapping your life can be
A wonderful experience.
The places you've been
Places you'll want to go
Highs and lows
Passes and boundaries
Yet never forget to see
The marker that says
"You are here."

It seems,
One life of illusion
Isn't enough for you.

What might be someday
What could have been
If only...
A million more illusions
You create
While the Is
Stays all around you
Unexperienced.

Stop. Breathe.
Life is more beatuiful
Than you think.
Or than you can think.

The Is is most beautiful
When you stop thinking.

Doors

Many doors lead to the Is
Infinite paths to infinity

Some open, some closed
And some unapproachable.
Not the doors,
But you.

You may choose,
But not judge
For all are one.
And one is all.

All doors open
All winds blow
All roads lead
To one place.

high and low

The only
Difference between
A sparkling diamond
And a chunk of coal
Is their atoms'
Orientation.

Each is the other,
Each can become
The other.

And so it is
For a Master
And the lost soul.