Dave Hip

Be present with your thoughts, but don't *be* them. See them. Listen to them. Disobey them. They might be useful, but they are often not.

But that's fine, because they're not you, nor life. They're just a part of your experience, which comes and goes.

#mindfulness #meditation

You go to bed each night. Big sleep. Do you stop being for a while?

Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

Thoreau

People selling meditation online like it's a magic pill to cure all anxiety really shows what went wrong.

The internet was meant as a place to play and be creative, and it has ended up with people copy pasting AI content.

The more you read, the more you understand, the more you read, the more you understand.

Sometimes there are misunderstandings, breaks, and detours but the fun of the journey never seems to stop.

#reading #philosophy

The purpose of life
Actualized by living it.

Not a thing
You have
That you lose.

You don't find it
you embody it.

You don't wait for it
you make it happen.

You make it happen
and let it happen.

It's not a script,
an open ended performance.

#poetry #writing #meditation #mindfulness #poem

Hearing zen words:

What's your original face
before your parents were born?

To explore the unborn
undying and ungoing
part of yourself.

Inviting you to look for it
Even without answer.
Yet hinting at
How to find it.

#poems #poetry #meditation #zen #mindfulness #inspiration

In the space
Between two breaths
Freedom arises.

In the emptiness
Between your throughts
True choice happens.

In the openness
Of every moment
Practice practices.

#poetry #mindfulness #meditation #poems #yoga

It only seems as if
The seer is what is seen
Your self is
Your body or status
Your past or future
Your success or failure

Seemingly identical
They make delusions grow
That doom you to suffer.

But they are not linked,
Forever, let it drop.

#poetry #writing #meditation #mindfulness #yoga #poem

Meditate to free
Parts in you
charged by the past

Thoughts and emotions
Actions and situations
Already over.

Let them dissolve
To see
What right now
Shines.

#poetry #meditation #mindfulness #poems #mindfulness #yoga #writing

This too shall pass.

This day
this thought
this emotion.

You can't stop the coming
nor the going
but you can watch it.

#poetry #mindfulness #writing

Not the freedom to do what you want,
but the freedom from false wanting.
Not the choice between good and bad,
But the choice of no choice.
Not here not there -
Everywhere and
All at once.

#poetry #writing #mindfulness

In this chaos let's distangle
The present from what has
been before -
One moment at a time.

#poetry #writing #mindfulness

an invitation of words to play with my dephts.

#poetry

A poem - Some words/spirit -
The desire to bless and do good.

#poetry

#susurrus of cellophane
the cat is in the kitchen
getting into scraps again

#vss365 #haiku (ish) #micropoem #poem #poetry #writing #cats #photography #light #shadows

Untethered to earth
The realm of the infinite
Relieved sighs ascend

#realm #vss365 #haiku #haikupoem #haikuoftheday
#haikupoetry #poem #poetry

Sunrise on the shore of Vancouver Island, the sun just peeking through the trees like a golden fireball. Clear blue sky radiates above.

Good morning my #bluesky friends!💙☀️😁✨️🌊

"Upon the shore where sunlight gleams,
The sands reflect our wildest dreams.
With laughter bright and skies so blue,
The world feels fresh, as if it’s new"

- Unknown

#poetry #shoreline #sunlight #photography #nature #westcoast #islandlife #beauty #waves

🙏

Dear friend, let's mingle our humble wings and fly high.

#Poetry

The #realm of possibilities
Life’s twists and turns
Is it all planned
Do we control the light
To the path of new beginnings
Or does chaos rule us
Are our experiences
Our own choosing

We will never know
Maybe that’s the magic of life
Wandering
Wondering
Wishing
Hoping for tomorrow’s

#vss365 #poetry

half the peonies
facing east
the rest undecided
#poetry #haiku

I may not have the answers
But I have your words, your touch,
Your smile and even your absence.

#poetry #poems #writing

Moon you hear my worries:
Will I be gentle?
Will I be humble?
Will I keep my word?

#poetry

I sit
Waiting
For nothing
And everything
Happens
And I
Sit.

#poetry #writing

Don't tie your heart in a knot
Calling it ego - your ambition
To do good and feel good ossified.

#poetry

Hundred and fifty moments of love
For one of envy -
Is what I hope for.

#poetry

Read my soul, one word - breath - at a time.

#poetry

I, a poem, the stars -
A soft, intimate touch of words.

#poetry