What is the real question?

August 28th, 2009

Everything is. There is a universe in the tiniest leaf, there is a whole of creation in me. I will see it, if I look. I really enjoy my art class. The teacher begun her introduction, on the first day, by saying: drawing is not about putting shapes down on paper, it is not about [...]

Disaster Zone

August 25th, 2009

 My new house stands on a side of the mountain swept by a wild fire a couple of months ago. There are marks of it everywhere: burned trees, autumn-dry leaves, earth black with charcoal and white with ash. 

Question: I stumbled upon your site and was struck by your post. This is me. Your writing hit my heart and I do feel that you are correct when you said that “as long as were lost in you my thoughts, lost in planning, managing, changing . . .” But I am afraid I don’t [...]

It is not about making things happen. It is about being ready to allow things to happen. This is a different way of being in a world, different from how mind operates. There is nothing to do. There is nowhere to go, there is nothing to achieve, there is nothing to change. But there is [...]

Singing the heart out

August 6th, 2009

I remember the first time Christopher visited me in Poland. It was shortly after we met, about eight years ago. I lived in Warsaw at that time. One day, in the evening, we went for a walk at the river’s bank. It was a summer day and there were tents with beer, french fries and grilled [...]