Blogs about: Upgrowths
Me and My Knees
Eklutna wrote 1 month ago: A buddha-mind is a pure consciousness. It is like a mirror: it simply reflects, it does not project. … more →
Hearing the Sounds of the World
Eklutna wrote 5 months ago: There was a Bodhisattva who attained englightenment by concentrating intently on every sound he hear … more →
On the Urs
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Eklutna wrote 5 months ago: Pir Vilayat’s Dargah, Basti When my Friend is away from me, I am depressed; nothing in the day … more →
How to Fall Out of Love
Eklutna wrote 5 months ago: When I was in college many years ago, I had the misfortune–or so it seemed at the time–o … more →
Seeing Fear
Eklutna wrote 6 months ago: When we give up the hope of doing it right and the fear of getting it wrong, we realize that winnin … more →
How Could You Not?
Eklutna wrote 6 months ago: Looking at your face now you have become ready to die is like kneeling at an old gravestone on an … more →
Pain as the Teacher
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Eklutna wrote 7 months ago: I was stunned at the number of people who suffer from it. After a year and a half of being in bed … more →
Soul-Making
Eklutna wrote 7 months ago: Yesterday was my three-week anniversary for my total knee replacement surgery. I was told that I … more →
Pushing Through
Eklutna wrote 8 months ago: Oy, da pain….! Only my enemies should know such pain…. –The Bubbie, in Crossing De … more →
Back online...sort of!
Eklutna wrote 8 months ago: Here is a brief groupmail that went out to friends and family today. I’m a bit loopy at this … more →
About being Healed with Steel
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Eklutna wrote 8 months ago: Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place to go. – John Kirkin, M.D. I h … more →
Arthroplasty
Eklutna wrote 9 months ago: I have been living with an autoimmune disease for some years now, and it has taken its toll on my jo … more →
Irony
Eklutna wrote 9 months ago: I live in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina these days. After living in such places as Alaska a … more →
Sufism in Pakistan
Eklutna wrote 9 months ago: An interesting article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7896943.stm My own particular brand of … more →
We are three, you are three
Eklutna wrote 9 months ago: When I was a doctoral student, I used to attend graduate residentials that were held at a wonderfu … more →
Dhikr
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Eklutna wrote 9 months ago: The Sufis have a contemplative practice called the dhikr. I am spelling it this way beca … more →
How Do We Forgive Our Fathers? by Dick Lourie*
Eklutna wrote 10 months ago: How do we forgive our Fathers? Maybe in a dream Do we forgive our Fathers for leaving us too often o … more →
Mindfulness
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Eklutna wrote 10 months ago: During a long retreat, I had what seemed to me the earthshaking revelation that we cannot be in th … more →
A New Day
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Eklutna wrote 10 months ago: Since the joy of the election and yesterday’s inauguration, I’ve been having a song go a … more →
