Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Monday, 2026.06.15 
Ambitions, career, family, and everyday identity are like the outer wheel. All
the different talents and deep aspects of the mind are like the spokes. The
consciousness is the hub that holds all together. At the center of the hub is
emptiness - that aspect of ourselves that is open to the universal reality.

Unfortunately, we are not always whole. Perhaps it is a matter of opportunities
missed when we were younger. Perhaps it is a lack of education or experience.
Whatever it may be, we should, through introspection, search out what we lack
and then work toward fulfilling it. Once we identify and complete some part of
ourselves, it is like fitting a spoke into our wheel. When we have enough
spokes, we are whole.

A new wheel will have a long future of rolling. Our selves, once made whole, can
then serve our spiritual aspirations until the end.

		Deng Ming-Dao, "365 Tao - Daily Meditations", #287

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