It's always nice to take drive in Miyazaki.
Some '80's tunes, a 90's car, a boy from the 60's, feels so 70's ...
Here and now, and loving it!

やっぱりシングルイズベスト、ヒオコ豆、オリブオイル、ピマン、ネギ and of course Organic AiKi spice!美味し!!@Foodaly and all good stores.
Love in a bottle.

Yoga.やっぱり、ヨガ。

"My body is in great shape."
"the old body is not what it used to be"
When we look at it, our very language seems to indicate that we and our bodies are separate.
"my body" denotes an I that owns a body.
After all our body changes on a cellular level at a cycle of our around every 7 years-that is not a single cell of our body 7 years ago remains with us today. If the body was us we are never a single unit.
If the body is not us and we truly realize this reality then freedom is ours!
All worries, fears, hindrances to joy and freedom are due to our excessive attachment and obsession with this sack of flesh that seems to house or be driven by some other entity.
When we understand at the deepest level that this other unseen entity is not material or bound by physical restraints then liberty from all the possible anguishes that a body cherishing life entails.
Wake up! Be free! Know your being is one of light, unselfish, undying love, born from the source of all and never separate from it!
Let's fly into the sky of infinite peace that is our home and shine the way for all who dwell in fear!
Freedom is ours!

Can't complain (but sometimes I still do) - the immortal lead guitarist of the Eagles, Joe Walsh sings in his epic rock song regaling the life of a rockstar.
Living in Japan as foreigners it often feels like your a rock star with the easily won fame we acquire in our own little ponds and the lavishly laid out red carpets we are often the recipients of simply because of the color of our passports.
There's so much to be gracious for.
Today I went to do some copying at my local convience store and found I'd lost my prepaid debit card.
I was not at all worried when I asked the cashier if one had been handed in.
Sure enough one matching the receipt I had was returned to me.
I'd left there it on the copy machine a week earlier, unsigned.
Could of had any amount of points, charge etc. on it, can be used on machines and with no ownership checks, yet as I presumed it was there waiting for me to claim.
Now how many of us could boast that about our hometowns?
There's a lot to be said about peace of mind...
Next time you find yourself whinging about something here, let's stop and ask ourselves "why we are here?" If we haven't got more pros than cons then it's time to shut up and get out.
Lets Give thanks and pay it forward.
Rock and Roll!

Here it is live! Man he rocks!
Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSuKg5fYbxM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

May all know inner peace 〓

Too much to be grateful for, no time to whine!
Be the great - be GRATEFUL live!

Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn for those who look upon the world amiss. The most that they can do is see themselves as better off than others. And they try to be content because another seems to suffer more than they. How pitiful and deprecating are such thoughts! For who has cause for thanks while others have less cause? And who could suffer less because he sees another suffer more? Your gratitude is due to Him alone Who made all cause of sorrow disappear throughout the world.

It is insane to offer thanks because of suffering. But it is equally insane to fail in gratitude to One Who offers you the certain means whereby all pain is healed, and suffering replaced with laughter and with happiness. Nor could the even partly sane refuse to take the steps which He directs, and follow in the way He sets before them, to escape a prison that they thought contained no door to the deliverance they now perceive.

Your brother is your "enemy" because you see in him the rival for your peace; a plunderer who takes his joy from you, and leaves you nothing but a black despair so bitter and relentless that there is no hope remaining. Now is vengeance all there is to wish for. Now can you but try to bring him down to lie in death with you, as useless as yourself; as little left within his grasping fingers as in yours.

You do not offer God your gratitude because your brother is more slave than you, nor could you sanely be enraged if he seems freer. Love makes no comparisons. And gratitude can only be sincere if it be joined to love. We offer thanks to God our Father that in us all things will find their freedom. It will never be that some are loosed while others still are bound. For who can bargain in the name of love?

Therefore give thanks, but in sincerity. And let your gratitude make room for all who will escape with you; the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming loss or feel apparent pain, who suffer cold or hunger, or who walk the way of hatred and the path of death. All these go with you. Let us not compare ourselves with them, for thus we split them off from our awareness of the unity we share with them, as they must share with us.

We thank our Father for one thing alone; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with Him. And we rejoice that no exceptions ever can be made which would reduce our wholeness, nor impair or change our function to complete the One Who is Himself completion. We give thanks for every living thing, for otherwise we offer thanks for nothing, and we fail to recognize the gifts of God to us.

Then let our brothers lean their tired heads against our shoulders as they rest a while. We offer thanks for them. For if we can direct them to the peace that we would find, the way is opening at last to us. An ancient door is swinging free again; a long forgotten Word re-echoes in our memory, and gathers clarity as we are willing once again to hear.

Walk, then, in gratitude the way of love. For hatred is forgotten when we lay comparisons aside. What more remains as obstacles to peace? The fear of God is now undone at last, and we forgive without comparing. Thus we cannot choose to overlook some things, and yet retain some other things still locked away as "sins." When your forgiveness is complete you will have total gratitude, for you will see that everything has earned the right to love by being loving, even as your Self.

Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger, malice and revenge. We have been given everything. If we refuse to recognize it, we are not entitled therefore to our bitterness, and to a self-perception which regards us in a place of merciless pursuit, where we are badgered ceaselessly, and pushed about without a thought or care for us or for our future. Gratitude becomes the single thought we substitute for these insane perceptions. God has cared for us, and calls us Son. Can there be more than this?

Our gratitude will pave the way to Him, and shorten our learning time by more than you could ever dream of. Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found. For gratitude is but an aspect of the Love which is the Source of all creation. God gives thanks to you, His Son, for being what you are; His Own completion and the Source of love, along with Him. Your gratitude to Him is one with His to you. For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God.

I don't usually drink coffee or eat cake, but sometimes... Cockapoo, Mmmm...

Yes! The divine shines so clearly thru the words you share from the spring of love deep with in you.
That love of which you speak is true, a thoughtless giving born from an innate knowledge of the infinite abundance that is very nature of all being.
Love is not a verb, it is as close a synonym as we have to express wholeness, complete and unwanting, perfect and expanding as light does,without discrimanation or judgment.
Beyond the need for forgiveness it sees only the perfection that is the formless essence of all form, blind to all faults caused thru the misconceptions of the ego.
Love is the very fabric that's binds the entire universe in its boundless fluxing between form and formless purity.
Yes! Love is all. All is love. Love is.
Gratitude always for the rays of truth you shine that light the flames of wisdom that dwell in us all.
Thanks for your being.

In the silence,
Beauty shines from all,
In the silence,
The love song has no sound.
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In the silence nought but joy abounds!