Guest Blogger: Joy In All Things

There is joy in all things if we look—a beautiful sunset, stepping into a mountain path, watching birds build a nest, the purr of a cat. Thich Nhat Hahn (1926-current), a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk and Nobel Prize nominee, for example, finds joy in waking up to 24 brand new hours each day, another opportunity to see compassion in all beings.

For some reason, many of us often focus our energy only on the negative. How is that working out? By living in the moment, it is possible to experience joy in every thing we experience and achieve permanent inner peace.

Here are a few haiku that express joy as it has appeared to me in a moment…

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Without Fault

See kindness not fault

Snow-lined coyote fences

Experience joy

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Father and Son

Nothing but blue sky

Walking up the mountain pass

Just father and son.

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Gaze Westward

The round ball of light

Melts into the Pacific

As we gaze westward

                  

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Pinons Sway

Nothing but blue sky

As pinons sway with the wind

Painting the landscape

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Cloudless

Deep vast cloudless skies

No beginning and no end

Blue mountain flowers

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Eagle Feather

Lone eagle feather

Lying on the mountain pass

Signifying peace

Guest blogger: Tom Atkins - Santa Fe, New Mexico.     
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