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Today, Crow asked me, "If you could be a bird what kind would you be."A trick question likely--no a koan about one's tru...
02/22/2024

Today, Crow asked me, "If you could be a bird what kind would you be."

A trick question likely--no a koan about one's true self. I was gone lost in thought.

“I already am,” I said boldly.

A “cah, cah,” he replied in a shrill dismissal.

"All birds fly in the same empty sky," I offered.

Cocking his head, "Same sky?"

"Okay, only sky."

"Each person is the owner of their deeds, heir to their deeds, their deeds are the womb from which they are born, their ...
01/09/2024

"Each person is the owner of their deeds, heir to their deeds, their deeds are the womb from which they are born, their deeds are their kin for whom they are responsible, their deeds are their refuge, they are heir to their deeds, be they good or bad."
--The Buddha

("Aghatavinaya Sutta," adapted from the translation by Ñanamoli Thera)

Photograph by Michael Wood. Used by permission.

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