Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Reading

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I only read one book this year that was published in 2014, so I don't feel like it's fair to give out my yearly best book award. I ...

Sisters of Dolma (Film Review)

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Just watched Daughters of Dolma . It is a kind of profile of some young female Buddhists. The way women are treated in the society is the w...

transition day into a home retreat

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(photo by Anandi ) We got in late last night, and were pretty wiped out from the travel, so decided to make today a rolling into the ...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Mural in Santa Fe

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Friday, December 26, 2014

Tibet House Santa Fe

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Wrong intension.

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Source Right intension is a very important aspect of Buddhism. Yesterday I woke up and did a puja. While I was doing it, my son woke...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

what is spirituality?

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What is spirituality? Source I’ve heard so many people say they don’t like that word. I used to think spirituality was other wor...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Fearless mudra

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Cape Coral Florida 11/25/14
Sunday, November 16, 2014

4/11/13 in Rome

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Sunday, November 09, 2014

No Short Cuts

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She mentions sitting on the therapist's couch, sitting in the meditation hall...
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...