" At the center of your being you have the answer
you know who you are and you know what you want"
Lao Tzu
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Know
Friday, March 20, 2009
Path of the Padres part 1
Yesterday I embarked on a bit of a time traveling journey
I have always wanted to take the hike known in my part of the woods
as "Path of the Padres"
it is called this because it was the path through the Diablo Range taken by the Padres
as they came from mission San Juan Bautista 35 miles along the Los Banos Creek and into the Central Valley in the early 1800's. My journey began with a pontoon boat ride for about 3 miles
to shore there we stopped and looked at the Tule that the Native Americans used to make skirts, boats, then we went to shore and began our 5 mile hike, along the path we saw beautiful wild flowers, eatable plants, came to a spot where the Native American tribe would crush acorns into a sandrock and continued our journey. Our lunch stop was located were the historic "baths" deep pools in the creek carved in bedrock which gave Los Banos it's town name. In 1805 the mission Padres and accompanying soldiers washed and rested here in Los Banos del Padre Arroyo simply known now as Los Banos Creek.
The canyon floor was is covered with 576 acres of old growth sycamore forest described by the Fish and Game biologists as the largest and most intact natural community left of it's kind in California.
I will continue more of this blog with photos later this week
I have always wanted to take the hike known in my part of the woods
as "Path of the Padres"
it is called this because it was the path through the Diablo Range taken by the Padres
as they came from mission San Juan Bautista 35 miles along the Los Banos Creek and into the Central Valley in the early 1800's. My journey began with a pontoon boat ride for about 3 miles
to shore there we stopped and looked at the Tule that the Native Americans used to make skirts, boats, then we went to shore and began our 5 mile hike, along the path we saw beautiful wild flowers, eatable plants, came to a spot where the Native American tribe would crush acorns into a sandrock and continued our journey. Our lunch stop was located were the historic "baths" deep pools in the creek carved in bedrock which gave Los Banos it's town name. In 1805 the mission Padres and accompanying soldiers washed and rested here in Los Banos del Padre Arroyo simply known now as Los Banos Creek.
The canyon floor was is covered with 576 acres of old growth sycamore forest described by the Fish and Game biologists as the largest and most intact natural community left of it's kind in California.
I will continue more of this blog with photos later this week
calm
" Calm is the morn without a sound
Calm as to suit a calmer grief and only through the faded leaf the chestnut pattering to the ground"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
sublime
" The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple
soul in a clean and chaste body"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, March 13, 2009
We
" We experience ourselves, our thoughts and
feelings as something separate from the rest
A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us.
restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to me"
Albert Einstein
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Another Zen Quote
" Zen does not confuse spirituality
with thinking about God while one is
peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is
just to peel the potatoes"
Alan Watts
with thinking about God while one is
peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is
just to peel the potatoes"
Alan Watts
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Now
" Now Today, moment by moment realize
that each person and event that happens is life for you
Life for you is not somewhere else, See how fully you can accept
the life that presents itself to you now"
Brenda Shoshanna
that each person and event that happens is life for you
Life for you is not somewhere else, See how fully you can accept
the life that presents itself to you now"
Brenda Shoshanna
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