Made by Shingen

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon. – Ikkyu

at a time, you are doing exactly what you need to do.

You are not just “venting.” You are witnessing and documenting the reality of your life, which is a crucial step in not being consumed by it. And you are practicing the critical skill of disengagement.

There is also evidence that the bombardment of protons from the sun may create small amounts of new water when the charged nuclei of hydrogen combine with free-floating oxygen in the upper atmosphere. Still, chances are good that the drop of rain that splashes on your forehead is made of molecules that were here long before the first humans looked up in wonder at a cloudy sky, long before the first leafy plants stretched their roots into the soil, long before the first single-celled organisms took the critical step of dividing in half to reproduce.

Sawaki Rōshi often said, “You can go in any direction—east, west, south, or north. Wherever you go, you are the self that is only the self.”