Thought of the Day September 24, 2026

Purple mums and hidden bees

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

Even our most closely held beliefs are just guesses based on unreliable information. Focus on refining your questions rather than polishing your answers.

Thought of the Day September 23, 2026

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

Entropy is the samsara of mental objects. The birth, illness, old age, and death of a worldview.

It is your mind that is flapping in the breeze as the world continues along according to its own order.

Cutting through

Thought of the Day September 22, 2026

Cacophony of Color

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

Moving past balance
Into darker days
Filled by autumn winds;
The trees prepare.
Creeping patches of color,
Bright cozy panels
Of a kaleidoscope quilt
Ready to tuck in the bees
And summer seeds
For a well deserved rest.

Thought of the Day September 21, 2026

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

Trust your insight. Being the first to see an opportunity often looks like futility.

Earl waiting for the mystery to reveal itself.

Thought of the Day September 20, 2026

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

Where turbines once spun
The canal gently returns
Back to the river.

Industry reclaimed by nature.

Thought of the Day September 19, 2026

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

Stillness is relative to the speed at which the universe is transforming.

Balance

Thought of the Day September 18, 2026

A friendly deer amid the yellowing ferns of autumn

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

The constraints of tradition are only useful if they support the guidance of insight.

Thought of the Day September 17, 2026

You are never alone in a forest…

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

I asked the tree
To tell me a story
About understanding zen.

“Shhhh”, it whispered
As the breeze
Moved around me.

Thought of the Day September 16, 2026

Trees against a dark sky.

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

Each moment contains love and hate, compassion and cruelty, joy and disappointment, peace and conflict. One does not destroy the other they exist side by side uninterrupted.

The character of this moment is decided by where you choose to place your focus.

Thought of the Day September 15, 2026

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

The great gathering
Of shoes, neatly placed in rows;
Steps from the lotus

“Happy Teachers Will Change the World”

Thought of the Day September 14, 2026

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

You can't buy the flavor of a homegrown cucumber.

Not sure where I’m headed, but I’ll get there eventually.

Thought of the Day September 13, 2026

Breastie Reaching

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

The mighty oak is nice.
Its powerful trunk
a simple path well executed
But I prefer
the shade of a twisted crabapple
resting in uncertainty
Content to find its light one turn at a time.

Thought of the Day September 12, 2026

The Red Dragon waits for dinner

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

The first step on the path to mindfulness is remembering what it feels like to be curious again.

Thought of the Day September 11, 2026

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

We are the space that holds all conceivable things.

We are the light and the darkness

Thought of the Day September 10, 2026

New Growth

Dubie's Thought of the Day:

When you let yourself believe in the wonders of the world, they appear all around you.