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Endless comparisons
One of the insights I realized while at last month’s meditation retreat (they don’t call it Insight Meditation for nothin’), was that I spend a lot of mental time comparing and judgi… more →
Stumbling along the path
Endless comparisons
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wrote 5 months ago: One of the insights I realized while at last month’s meditation retreat (they don’t call … more →
I vow
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wrote 6 months ago: She’s at it again. Sarah Palin is opening her big yap and begging for attention. And even thou … more →
Excerpts from my retreat journal
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wrote 6 months ago: We were warned at the end of our retreat to not try and come to any conclusions about it until about … more →
Not all here, but not quite there
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wrote 1 year ago: For anyone who has been paying attention to my “tweets” in the top of the right column, … more →
Feeeeelings, nothing more
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wrote 1 year ago: A week or so back in the discussion of my post Severed Ties, some of the usual suspects and I were h … more →
Severed ties
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wrote 1 year ago: Even though I have not attended any classes or been affiliated with any New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) … more →
Insight
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wrote 1 year ago: It’s been almost a year now that I have been without any kind of regular spiritual community o … more →
Accepting our fate
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wrote 1 year ago: Traffic this morning on 580 West is at a dead stop. Not merely the kind of stop where you turn off y … more →
Virtuous confusion
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wrote 1 year ago: Back when I was in the NKT (New Kadampa Tradition) it was highly discouraged to read other Buddhist … more →
Dirty Laundry
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wrote 1 year ago: As far as the major religions go, Buddhism has a pretty good reputation. In general, we don’t … more →
Feeling da funk
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wrote 1 year ago: I don’t have to look far to see people who are a lot worse off than I am. My best friend just … more →
Not quite a dharma adventure
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wrote 1 year ago: When a colleague of mine from work, Beth, told me with great enthusiasm that she wanted to attend th … more →
Yet another dharma adventure
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wrote 1 year ago: I called my good friend John at 5:30 yesterday to see if he wanted to join me on an impromptu dharma … more →
The comfort of the familiar
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wrote 1 year ago: One of my old (or shall I say former, he’d hate to be called old) meditation students asked me … more →
Another dharma adventure
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wrote 1 year ago: Tonight, my band of merry NKT outcasts and I drove out to Spirit Rock Meditation Center in west Mari … more →
My year in review
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wrote 1 year ago: Today is the first day off I’ve had in months (except, of course, weekends and holidays). I … more →
The illusion of safety
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wrote 2 years ago: I keep checking the news to see if the Richmond Police are any closer to finding the murderers of Ra … more →
Bending, not breaking
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wrote 2 years ago: At least that is what I would view my current frame of mind. My boss and my boyfriend may beg to di … more →
The dharma quest begins
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wrote 2 years ago: One of the things I am determined to start doing is checking out other Buddhist traditions and teach … more →
