Today in the pressure of resisting our own thoughts on what we should do about poverty, violence, and refugeless persons, always in the news we turn to the relinquishment of instincts, like when studying, do we memorize or hint at the assumptions underlying the study. When I took an accounting class, necessary as a […]
On the thirteenth we celebrate the blocking of atomic energy in our age, but it should be on the twelveth for that is when the decision was made to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, the estate of the then Emperor, olden and shaken. He wandered the fields planting acorns, if you believe his published […]
A dicta is a formulation of Buddhist Thought on the circumstances of the person involved, usually their own thought not instinct.
There is a set point of traction in each person’s life whereby we greet the time of our circumstance with idleness and thought. There upon arises our first dicta.
This is when you have postlated […]
In the darkness of our struggle to exist simulataneously with indirect assaults on our senses, like when somebody long ago says: “I’ve not moved” and they have. How could she have moved and have me or you not notice. What a friendship that is. We posit truths towaqrds existence and all aspects. […]
In the darkest times or periods of your life, don’t search as Henri Nouwen did for decades. Instead wait: feel the emotions, run/jog/walk the jitters off and wait till it passes and if you can’t wait then do what feel right but don’t search as we all are taught. In Tibet in the […]
Today is a remante of what I call the world: it is Saturday, we breate easier and we walk more tenderly as we have take to give.
What is take to give?
That’s when we give and take at home or at work; on one is looking over our shoulder, telling us what to do.
I do it […]
Today is a day of chagirn; I have lost track of the efforts we have taken not to drip the atomic bomb, eighteen friends lost to it as I have spent my energy rejecting the feelings of ought and should–they have all moved from my hometown to zone free areas where rebellion reigns. […]
There is a nurse I know who is from Jamaica and she always comments on my weight, pinches my arm and says you have gained so much from last year.
Is this Buddhist? I think it is for Buddha said comment creatively on all supposed who are within your realm.
She took measurements of me and […]
When obligated by thought then you do what you think is outrageous in your culture.
When obligated by thought you do what you think is the most important aspect of your life and that’s what we do until we have meditated a year and a half about and then we mediitate deeper in our selves and […]
Hillary McClintosh, not her daughter mind you, when asked about the email taxation brewhaha as she called it responded to the press “Beauty of All Kinds, Pause, I pursue them with my daughter at a distance in California. Laugh. But it’s a disappointment to tax beauty.” What of her capital gains they […]