Thursday, March 29, 2018

Where I'm at

›
Approaching art as though it's dharma is a way to incorporating... I want to say the spiritual life into the spiritual life. Perfection...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

The opposite of Buddhism, still want to get rid of here

›
Sometimes thoughts are so vivid in my head, I can't shake them for a while. I always say when there's a train of thought coming thr...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Reading

›
There is a paradox in the seeking in the spiritual life. In the Buddhist tradition you look inwards, but to see guidance outside yourself, ...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018

More on violence and buddhism

›
NY Times had an interesting article , with an interesting quote: "There is a philosophically problematic presupposition that also figu...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Someone asked my opinion

›
What do I think about gun control? I'm against the NRA. When I taught current events, I read the paper a lot and I notic...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Bits and bobs.

›
I’m reading History of God , which has been very interesting. It’s kind of a comparative religion course by the great mind of Karen Armstro...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Richard DeWald

›
One of my favorite bloggers is Richard DeWald.  Also, I couldn't have said this better myself.
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Book of the year

›
Looking through my books and posts from last year, I didn't read any great books that were published in 2017, so I can't give out a...
1 comment:
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

spoiler alert

›
I've had glimpses of insight, a connection to everything, I've felt a weird kind of hallucinatory love. At the time, I didn'...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

227 rules

›
"Should any bhikkhu knowingly deprive an animal of life, it is to be confessed." The above is from the 227 rules of conduct for ...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Contemplating the Buddha

›
My two gurus. The Buddha has shown me so many things about my mind, and launched great curiosity. My daughter is so curious, kind and sh...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

#3

›
I've gotten away from moving through the 37 Bodhisattva practices : #1 and #2 are done. The third practices is: By avoiding bad o...

Bodhisattva fever

›
Started reading Training The Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness by Chogyam Trungpa . He's got interesting language, "bodhisattv...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Love continued

›
In all about love , the chapter on mutuality was a bit challenging to hear, but I can't say hooks is wrong. She contends that men seek ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Love

›
bell hooks had a powerful chapter on greed in her book all about love . I'm not going to summarize or quote it. It moved me a lot. ho...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Parenting and the dhamma

›
"If you’re a parent, for instance, a large component of your practice might center on understanding and thereby attempting to re...
Monday, November 06, 2017

Lying

›
In bell hooks' all about love she writes about the importance of honesty in association with love in chapter 3. When someone asks her ...
Friday, November 03, 2017

Love

›
  In bell hooks' all about love she likes Scott Peck 's definition of love as "the will to extend one's self for the ...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Mistakes

›
For some reason Blogger has been making it hard, and I've been making mistakes and publishing other blogs here. Sorry about that.
Saturday, September 30, 2017

›
Vegan treats to explore in Gotham. Enjoy. 😊 Bakeries, NYC 1) BrooklynWhiskersBakery.com Bushwick 2) ClementineBakery.com Clinton Hill 3) Br...