The Ten Thousand Things

Have you heard the good news?

Sam and Joe discuss 3 quotes about Christianity from Bishop John Spong.

Love This World

Sam and Joe discuss this quote: Natural Great Peace by Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje Rest in natural great peace  This exhausted mind  Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought  Like the relentless fury of pounding waves  In the infinite ocean of saṃsāra.

Into the Flow of Perceptions

Sam and Joe discuss this David Hume quote: For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never catch myself at any time without perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. Contact us: thetenthousandthings@outlook.com Photo by Solstice Hannan [https://unsplash.com/@darkersolstice?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText]

What is God?

Sam and Joe kick off the new year by discussing a quote from Joseph Campbell: People say they believe in God. God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought. Even the categories of being and nonbeing. Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. It depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's putting you in touch with the mystery that is the ground of your own being. If it isn't, well, it's a lie.

Tao Te Ching - Verse Four

Sam and Joe discuss Verse 4 of the Tao Te Ching: The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, Like an abyss! It seems to be the origin of all things. It dulls the sharpness, Unties the knots, Dims the light, Becomes one with the dust. Deeply hidden, as if it only might exist. I do not know whose child it is. It seems to precede the ancestor of all.