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2007
- Apr 16 Everything Changes I read somewhere that when asked to sum up the teachings of The Buddha in one sentence, the Dalai Lama said, "Everything Changes." Yesterday I let my employer k...
- Apr 12 A Meditation On Chenrezig Outside the tarp covered window the winter rages on. Snows fall for another countless day and the sun is hidden once again. Inside, the room is warm and fragran...
- Apr 10 Getting Fit I am going to get in to shape again; mentally, physically and spiritually too. This is my plan: Step 1 : Sculpt my body. For some reason I let my body go as my ...
- Apr 08 All Sound is Prayer I tried to convince my son this weekend that all sound is prayer. We were listening to birds chirping and singing on Sunday morning and he asked if I knew what ...
- Mar 31 Mosaic The winds were eating away at the remaining moisture in the earth. Sunshine was brilliant and made the days seem to sparkle. The People would need to dance soon...
- Mar 29 Bodhisattvah Cat Last night my cat, Guru, brought a present in to the laundry room for my wife. Guru very proudly trotted in and at my wife's feet dropped a field mouse. That al...
- Mar 25 Quiet Forgiving: Loving Kindness with Chenrezig I am terrible at remaining calm and staying in a forgiving state of mind. I too quickly allow myself to become upset and angry when people, especially those peo...
- Mar 20 How to Kill a Copperhead and Have Scary Dreams Last night while working in the backyard my mother-in-law stepped on a rather large copperhead snake. My daughters came racing in to the living room screaming a...
- Mar 14 Who am I? or Who is me? My eyes were closed yesterday for a couple of hundred miles. The car was zooming along the interstate headed home. The sun was shining and the lanes were clear,...
- Mar 11 Hidden Agenda We all have a hidden agenda. Whether we want to admit it or not we are trying to make our life in our own image. Sometimes we are honest and we tell people that...
- Mar 07 Surviving the Aftermath Thatcher Blue sat on the dark green leather couch, sipping hot tea. Today was to be a great day, he could feel it in his bones. And the bones never lied. He wal...
- Mar 06 Ice and Needles Something I wrote over a decade ago. She walks to water’s edge lowers her weeping head why does she cry, for whom does she care? Does she know his name, call ou...
- Mar 05 One of Life's Questions I keep hearing this question over and over, like a mantra that others are praying for me. Kind of starts to get laughable when you hear it in strange places fro...
- Mar 04 Sportmanship and Ego My son played in a basketball tournament this past weekend and I was honestly disturbed by the lack of sportsmanship. Both the players and the parents of the op...
- Feb 26 The Commercialization of The Buddha I was on the way home a few nights ago. It was a dark, cloudless night and there were a million stars in the skies above rural Oklahoma. My son and I were comin...
- Feb 21 Perspective and Context A friend of mine prays every morning, laying in bed, holding her rosary. Her eyes are closed as she slowly recites her rosary and lets go. She lets go of the he...
- Feb 13 St. Valentine's Day and The Buddha I woke up this morning and wished my wife a happy Valentine's day. Rolled over, put my feet on the floor and decided to have a good day. ( I do that every day, ...
- Feb 13 A conversation between friends about God A good friend and i had a conversation a few days ago that I think is worth sharing. We had spoke about a few things already and then he read on of my posts, le...
- Feb 07 The Garden, the gardener and me. I followed the path along the twisting way. Grasses and moss grew up between the loose pebbles on the path, people do not use this path anymore and slowly natur...
- Jan 28 Bardo, the Intermediate State I went to my first official Buddhist function this past weekend in Oklahoma City. A local Kagyu meditation group brought Lama Dudjom Dorjee , pictured at right ...
- Jan 25 For Priya I met a girl about 5 years ago and we became friends. She is sweet and funny and so smart, we still talk some. She is from India and a practicing Jain. I won't ...
- Jan 16 It's Just Good Karma I have been lazy of late and not writing posts. Mainly because I have been reading more than living, there is an issue in there somewhere. Reading more about Dz...
2006
- Dec 14 Basketball with the Buddha I took my son to his basketball practice last night. Ran a bit listening to my music, some Tool and some AC/DC to keep my feet moving. When I became bored with ...
- Dec 12 Compassion and Aggression I am not a quiet person. I don't sneak up behind people, they see me coming, they can hear my footfall and feel my presence in the room before I make myself kno...
- Dec 05 Make Your Life Mean Something A few months ago I lost someone whom I always considered my uncle. He was not related to my family by blood, but rather by friendship, sometimes that is stronge...