short and long

Love is so short,
Forgetting is so long...


Pablo Neruda

mindfulness

With resolution and mindfulness,
discipline and self-control,
the wise can create an island
no flood can submerge.

Fools and the ignorant,
indulge in heedlessness.
The wise keep mindfulness
as their best treasure.


Dhammapada

a higher love

Love - without desire to possess,
knowing well that in the ultimate sense
there is no possession and no possessor:
this is the highest love.

Nyanaponika

once in a while

Every once in a while
we need to stop ourselves in our tracks
and ask ourselves - what are we doing?
And why we are doing whatever it is that we are doing.


Editor - Path of Joy