Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Mary Oliver poem

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WILD GEESE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only hav...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Insight Timer

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creating meaning out of mistakes

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The phrase "god has a plan for everything," rubs me the wrong way. I don't really get what god is. My therapist said, "h...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Gestures

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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Gratitude

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Saturday, August 02, 2014

Patience

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(I love the photography of Patrick Latter . Here is the source of this one.) A lovely book has crossed my path: How Patience Works . I...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Apparently Innocuous Decisions

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Reading from The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) , I read ...

Ancient Greek Quote

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"Let there be less suffering... give us the sense to live on what we need." Chorus,  381,2, in Aeschylus's Agamemnon .
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Swayambhunath Stupa

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I watched  light of the valley the 15th renovation of swayambhu which I'd recorded from PBS. It's about the Swayambhunath stupa...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

hassle and uplift scale

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Read an excellent article on relapse prevention and came across the hassle and uplift scale . Fascinating. The enlightened person, I i...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Wonderful World

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What A Wonderful World I see trees of green,  red roses too.  I see them bloom,  for me and you.  And I think to myself, what a wond...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

I wish Simon Schama would do a history of Buddhism.

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I wish Simon Schama would do a history of Buddhism. I've been watching the fascinating Story of the Jews . Religion is beset with thi...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Drinking

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I quite enjoyed watching this video this morning. On thing that strikes me about this video from 1993, 21 years ago, is that Bhante...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Savage Pilgrims

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Reading Savage Pilgrims: On the Road to Santa Fe , Shukman quotes D.H. Lawrence, "...Which I am I..." This could be interpreted...

the path

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(source) I haven't meditated in yonks. I asked myself why I haven't been. My answer was that I had lost the habit. How would I...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Walking prayer

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With beauty before me, may I walk With beauty behind me, may I walk With beauty above me, may I walk With beauty below me, may I walk With b...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

quote

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From page 45 of The Path To Awakening: How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happine...
Friday, March 21, 2014

digital intelligence

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From an essay:  When The Factory Turns Cold : "The French revolutionary (and Karl Marx’ son in law) Paul Lafargue wrote “The Right...

Preciousness of life

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From page 42 of The Path To Awakening: How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happine...
Monday, March 17, 2014

quote

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"It must be mentioned here that even today some things are kept hidden from all but the most serious practitioners. Here, wit it comes...