Facets of a Diamond – Blog

Whatever I do affects the spirit within me. And whatever is done to me by another affects my spirit, as well as his own. Also, of course, all my actions affect his spirit.

So whatever anyone does affects everyone’s spirit. There are no isolated, solitary actions – just one Action with infinite realizations.

I am earth mother
to the spirit
growing within me,
evolving through me.

Aspiration:
the song of my heart
leaving my heart.

(With an apology to Buson.)

Ethical behavior:
when we see the other
as our mother of love.

Creativity is not just the doing, but the taking in and then the doing. The chi, the spirit, being breathed in, and then being breathed out. An act of Creativity is a breath cycle of Amida. She breathes into us as Inspiration and then out again as Aspiration.

Creativity

Creativity is still meditation (Inspiration)
and then action meditation (Aspiration).

An act of Creativity
is the Inspiration
returned to the Spirit World
as Aspiration.

Every act of Creativity
is a breath cycle metaphor
of Inspiration and Aspiration.