"Yun Men said, "When you can't speak, it's there; when you don't speak, it's not there. When you can't discuss it, it's there; when you don't discuss it, it's not there." He also commented saying, "You tell me, what is it when you're not discussing it?" Fearing people wouldn't understand, he also said, "What else is it?""

- Dahui Zonggao (Ta-hui Tsung-kao)

trip-o-meter

I am taking my first trip to Austin in June. A short over the weekend trip to visit a good friend

and to see Austin. 

I haven't flown in twenty years or so. What a stay-at-home person I've become!

Except for the occasional week long meditation retreat, I am pretty much a boring sleep-in-my-own-bed-at-night person. With the cats.

I am looking forward to the change of venue, to seeing the person and the place. 

Not so much looking forward to the anticipated heat. As a southerner in exile, I have long been 

acclimated to the Bay Area's mild summers and absence of sticky humidity. 

We'll have to see how I manage.

to ramona

Having finally gotten round to loading some music into my some-four-months-ago-purchased ipod,
I was touched by being able to revisit some of Bob Dylan's earlier contributions, "To Ramona" in particular.

In fact, in hearing the lines "everything passes, every changes, just do what you think you should do" I felt the experience of a bob-to-bob transmission. Everything does pass, everything does change. And, you just do what you think you should do. He coulda been singing about the past several years of my life.

Whew!