Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Andres Lost His First Tooth

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Lost Tooth! They saw Tintin Their medals for participation in basketball I've decided to consolidate my effort...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Shamash Alidina video (2 min, 22 seconds)

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I like the idea of smiling when you notice your mind has wandered.

quote from Mindfulness for Dummies

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“Of the three ways of achieving satisfaction in life (pleasure, engagement and meaning) engagement and meaning are by far the most effect...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Disillusionment

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We have a fantasy mind, that is important, but sometimes I don't know the difference between fantasy and reality.  We have to project o...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Brahma Viharas

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I'm off to a retreat at Aryaloka .  Over the winter of 2001/2002, I went on a Brahma Viharas retreat for a week that blew my mind.  Te...

Letters to Dinoo

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Dear Dinoo by Sangharakshita My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have read about 30+ Sangharakshita books.  One is an all time world classic:  ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

watched this video today

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I'm reading his book on patience, so I thought it would be interesting to take a gander at him.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Possessions

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Reading the wonderful Essential Sangharakshita , there's the pithy comment, that renunciation is not about giving up, but about growing...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

vulnerability is beautiful

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This isn't exactly the Dharma, but it is about barriers to relating to people, and I see tha...

Dreams

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I was reading in Nanamoli's The Life of the Buddha (p.22) that the Buddha had 5 dreams before he became enlightened.  I'm going to ...
Friday, December 30, 2011

What we talk about when we talk about worldly winds

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What we talk about when we talk about worldly winds There's a great story by Raymond Carver , called "What We Talk About When We...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Right speech video?

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File this in idiots who try and get spiritual.  Well, that's kind of harsh.  I like it when the person who presents himself as out of c...

Gregory Burdulis TEDxBoulder Video

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I like the calm and pace of his presentation, it's not jam packed, he's really simplified the story to the important things.  I fin...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

Changes

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Changes David Bowie I still don't know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild A million dead-end streets Every time ...

Kuan Yin Mantra

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Just been googling Kuan Yin Mantra    This is different than this one, which is a downloadable mp3: http://groups.google.com/group/...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

images on retreat

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Friday, December 16, 2011

David R. Loy Quote

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p.130 of Money, Sex, War Karma: "The modern world can keep many of us alive longer and sometimes makes death less physically painful,...
Friday, December 09, 2011

Guest Blog

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With the new blogger interface, I can see how many hits I get to a page.  So it looks like guest blogs get the most hits.  Anyone want to g...

Materialism video

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I found this video profound.  I want to cultivate intrinsic values and community, move away from materialism.  I've got small children ...

More Loy quotes

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The following quotes are from his chapter, "What is wrong with sex?" in the recent book by David R. Loy: "The liberation ...
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