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There is another step beyond
inviting participants
to lead the gathering

:- Doug.

arrow
flower
tea
class
ceremony

:- Doug.

Meditate at start of class
slip into that sidereal place
be spoken from here

:- Doug.

Vibration am I
with others
nothing more
conversing
across the generations

:- Doug.

Symbols: not empty of meaning to those who stand within.

:- Doug.

Hint. Say not the whole. Leave an empty space for the hearer’s meaning to arise.

:- Doug.

You find your lesson
I only show the way

:- Doug.

My mind this morning was insistent on thinking! I practiced watching my breath for about two hours in bed. I only probably watched a couple dozen breaths or so! And the things I thought: things I had not thought in years, or even brand new things. Most inconsequential or worries or things to do. Keep practicing!

:- Doug.

Teaching discovery is evocative for me, leads me on. This way I can learn from all others, help all others. Inner discovery, conversational. Meeting one another in the profounds.

:- Doug.

Simply use less words, not stepping on their paths, inviting by spirit and presence. Have patience that there is depth meeting in there and that it will out.

:- Doug.

Teach less: learn him or her.

:- Doug.

Silence opens.

:- Doug.

The teacher stands unmoved, offers sparse words, opens way. Student finds path.

:- Doug.

Start on the way, hazard new transformations, accept deaths and some rebirths, every day.

:- Doug.

The truth I write assumes a hundred shapes and forms.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1600

Demented lives matter
The voices which have no sense
Need hearing by us, somehow
If we embrace these
Can we live in peace?

Please pass it on.

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Turn toward one another, inwardly.

:- Doug.

An inward movement of discovery, an inward meeting: that is what I teach.

:- Doug.

Don’t teach what you have discovered: teach discovery.

:- Doug.

Gracefully now, gracefully older.

:- Doug.

Bring me toys if I get to experience dementia. As I progress backwards through my decades, bring me things to occupy my happy moments: travel brochures when I am again in my 50s, tax return forms and calculators when I am reliving my 40s, nails and two by fours for my 30s, books for my twenties, cameras and magic tricks for my teens, chess pieces when I am 10, potholders and blocks when I am again under 5.

:- Doug.

Elders say the darnedest things.

:- Doug.

How old do you want to live to be?

:- Doug.