I (Green Heart) Oregon

Yesterday, I had a few hours between patients and decided to go for a walk to find a nice place to write. I recently got this great “Portland Walks” book from my friend Jennifer and looked up a local one. Off I meandered through the neighborhoods of Lake Oswego toward the Willamette River. I walked up the river enchanted by the birds and trees, the sun on my back. I stumbled on a group of carved stones marked as the William Stafford Stones. One of them said,

“Oregon is insanely green

It is the thin light

left over from Eden.”

Listening to the bird calls and feeling the silent flow of the river while squinting my right eye to the welcome glareof the sun, I couldn’t help but be filled with a divine connection and a sense of everything coming together. Everyday, I am enchanted by this piece of paradise.

Welcome

Hi! I’m Jeff Levin and welcome to my blog.

Professionally, I practice acupuncture, chinese herbology, yoga therapy, and hatha yoga in Portland.

As an amatuer, I like to eat good food, drink tasty wine, quaff suburb coffee, create stellar art, and contemplate the nature of the universe.

The pages in my blog reflect this multi-faceted approach to existence.

In other news…

I just rediscovered this quote in ‘Freedom from the Known.’ I feel it sums up my current world view better than I can. Unfortunately, I think that just by quoting it, I am undermining what it’s actually trying to say, that truth and the divine are accessed through the individual, not through fancy quotes. I suppose that is the wisdom of paradox.

“You may think there is no waste of energy if you imitate, if you accept authority, if you depend on the priest, the ritual, the dogma, the party or on some ideology, but the following and acceptance of an ideology, whether it is good or bad, whether it is holy or unholy, is a fragmentary activity and therefore a cause of conflict, and conflict will inevitably arise so long as there is a division between ‘what should be’ and ‘what is’, and any conflict is a dissipation of energy.” – Krishnamurti