A horse of course . . .

In Odin's mailbox, staying dry despite this week-long onset of April showers . . .

Thirty-seven years ago today, a flawed reactor design and lax safety standards led to one of the largest nuclear disasters in history. The 1986 USSR Chernobyl disaster has been turned into a tourist attraction by the current regime notwithstanding it was likely part of the cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Suffering is not a problem to be solved. It is a truth to be recognized. – Cuong Lu

To honestly face the pain in our lives and the problems in the world, let’s start by looking compassionately and honestly at our own minds. We can become intimate with the mind of hatred, the mind that polarizes, the mind that makes somebody “other” and bad and wrong. We come to know, unflinchingly, and with great kindness, the angry, unforgiving, hostile wolf. Over time, that part of ourselves becomes very familiar, but we no longer feed it. Instead, we can make the choice to nurture openness, intelligence, and warmth. This choice, and the attitudes and actions that follow from it, are like a medicine that has the potential to cure all suffering. – Pema Chödrön

...be careful not to become attached to the goal of becoming detached . . . take a deep breath, and roll with the waves of the unfoldings of ourselves. – James Finley

Actually, if you think about it, we all know each other quite well. We all want happiness and do not want suffering. . .What is it about our minds that keeps us from this recognition, that makes it so easy to forget it? In Tibetan monastic education, one of the first things that young monastics are asked in the debating courtyards is: “Is a white horse white?” The proper answer is “No, the color of a white horse is white.” A horse, like a human, is a being, and beings are not colors. . . – Jeffrey Hopkins (English translator for the Dalai Lama).

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door.

It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. – Rumi