Bob Peck

I’ve gifted this book more times than I can count.

“Original sin a lie, because deep within, miles underneath our psychological blocks and habitual hardenings, is a shared truth, a shared existence among all beings. At the very core of who we are, is Love.”

— Bob Peck @bobpeck.bsky.social

“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.”

~ Chogyam Trungpa

Trump said the words “Two Corinthians”… instead of “2nd Corinthians”… Paul’s second letter to the people of Corinth. He does not understand the most basic foundational concepts of Christianity.

Meditation can actually influence the world around us. 4,000 meditators reduced crime by up to 23% in a 2-month study in 1993:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Hi Robin, thanks for sharing. I agree it’s going to be a challenge for America and I am dismayed by the Trump movement. And yet I’ve always had distaste for our government—most governments in history really. So I refuse to devolve into fear. It’s a call to action for service and community and love.

Authentically connecting with the Chinese on Red Note has been such a moving, profound experience the past few days.

What app are the Russians on? The Iranians?

We’re a global family 🆗❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Ah you’re too kind Robin, thanks so much. Glad to make the connection and thank you for sharing my book! Wow. You’re gifting my embodied heart to loved ones ❤️‍🔥📖🙏

Shakespeare’s being his typical rascal self with this one.. it’s more of a joke than serious theology. But as far as my personal beliefs—I warmly disagree, if I’m anything I’m a nondualist, & the clearest of the nondual systems state that actually no, God did not create this (illusory) world.

“I'm in an environment where if that person wants to come out & play from the pain and the suffering, here I am.
And if they're in the pain & suffering, here I am.
But there's nothing in me that's keeping them stuck in the pain and suffering.
And there's nothing in me demanding they come out."
—RD

The mystic’s path is a tightrope. We are “in the world,
but not of it”.
We are not from here,
we are not here for long,
but we are here now. It’s a real dance. It’s the integration. Can you resist clinging, alongside resisting indifference?

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“Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma

And endlessly chant complicated sutras.

Before doing that, though, they should learn

How to read the love letters sent by

The wind and rain, the snow and moon.”

—Ikkyu, 15th century Zen monk

“When you humble yourself,
everyone will seem saintly to you;
when you are proud,
everyone will seem bothersome and bad.”

—St. Joseph the Hesychast

Love and light…
and pain and darkness.

“Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight.

But don't break a human heart.

For that is where God resides.”

—Bulleh Shah

What the mystics get across, continually, across continents and cultures, is that the Divine is not only Ever-Present, it is within us. Within every being. Now.