Showing posts with label Benjamin Dean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin Dean. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

this moment






this moment
when compared to
remembered moments
is boring

but if I look closely
at all remembered moments
I find them just as boring
and for the same reason

the missing moment
the beautiful moment
the perfect moment
where all is fine
DOES NOT EXIST 
it must be created
by taking any boring moment
(like this current moment)
and realizing quite clearly
that the only thing preventing
this moment from being
that beautiful moment
(that special moment)
is the act of comparison

one must embrace this boring moment
and make it that special moment

otherwise it will never exist




~ Benjamin Dean





Saturday, February 9, 2019

love is active


.

love never exists 
as a fact 

it is a verb 
and you can do 
all things 
with or without it 

it is nature 
in action 
being true 
to itself 
without even 
a thought



~ Benjamin Dean
.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

meditation on how





there's no 
figuring out how 
to live life 

there is only 
the living of life 

those who 
figure out how 
end up learning 
to forget all hows 
in order to live again

.
~ Benjamin Dean
from Short Zen Poems, Koans


Thursday, March 31, 2011

lost in thought






.

interpretation 
is the beginning 
of misery

.
~ Benjamin Dean
more at zen poems


.

Friday, February 18, 2011

present truth






.

one must be 
in the moment 
for life to 
ever come true 
.
touch the ground 
and be grounded 
find comfort here 
.
living, being, 
breathing, now 
this is where 
it will all happen
.

~ Benjamin Dean
.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

question and answer


.
.
question and answer
beginning and end
post and comment
fits and starts
.
these all dissolve
beautifully into one
(a one with no parts)
when we let go
of our heads
and enter our hearts
.
~ Benjamin Dean
.