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2007
- Nov 17 Nightmare The group, ten or more of us, walked in silence under the beech trees. The sun was low in the sky and the shadows where coming at strange angles, making it look...
- Nov 12 Wonderlane in Nepal My friend, Wonderlane, is on retreat in Nepal right now and will be there for a while to come. We have shared a few emails back and forth, but last night she se...
- Nov 08 Two Billion A Month During the late news last night they reported that the US is spending about two billion dollars a month on the war against terror. I sat there for a moment and ...
- Nov 04 The Trial of Jyoti: Part 1 He sat there, watching the judge for what seemed like an eternity. He could feel the minutes slipping away, minutes that would never come back again. The defend...
- Nov 03 A Code of Conduct for My Family This is a list of thoughts, actions and ways. It is written to help you, and all of us to be kinder, more compassionate people. I believe that our job in this l...
- Oct 30 Reiki II This Sunday I will be giving Reiki treatments at an event here in Oklahoma City. I am excited and nervous about the whole situation; will the people line up to ...
- Oct 24 Turning Chinese This might be the most important posting you ever read on my blog; and it is only a link to another blog. Before I send you there I wanted to share my comments,...
- Oct 24 Yogis of Tibet I recently found the movie The Yogis of Tibet on Stage6. It is a documentary about the Himalayan kingdom of Tibet and her Buddhist and Bon yogis. You can watch ...
- Oct 22 New Site, Old Content With a lot of help from Jason we are up and running on WordPress 2.3. I have had a blog on Blogger for a while now and I grew itchy for some of the functionalit...
- Oct 08 All The Colors of the Rainbow A few days ago I left my house, driving to work, and the world was full of bright sunshine and blue skies. Before I had driven a mile I was looking at a solid g...
- Oct 07 The Saffron Revolution Will Be Televised There is much pain and suffering in the world on a daily and ongoing basis. I try not to dwell on the suffering, but there are things that we cannot ignore, can...
- Oct 04 Ideas That Drive Us I recently wrote that ideas can change us at the very core of who we are. I was on TED last night and I watched the below presentation by Dan Dennett which rein...
- Oct 01 Healing This Reality This one may be too squishy and goody-goody for some of you. It might sound too 'out there' and too 'new age' for most of us stoic westerners, but it resonates ...
- Sep 25 The 4 Reminders and Buddhist Books A while back I read some articles on the Four Reminders and they made a lot of sense to me. They are the a way to think about ourselves and our place in the uni...
- Sep 19 Dreams May Tell Us For the last two nights I have had interesting dreams. Two nights ago: I was on the rocky beach of a fast moving, dark water river. The water was that lush, dee...
- Sep 17 Children's Stories I tell my children a lot of stories. Some of them are good, some are about Winnie the Pooh and his friends in the 100 Acre Wood. I tell the story very matter-of...
- Sep 09 White Tara comes to Oklahoma City Lama Dudjom Dorjee came back to Oklahoma City this past weekend for another Dharma Talk at Windsong Dojo . He mainly spoke about the Bardo , compassion and unde...
- Sep 04 People Change Have you ever lost a friend? 'Lost' might not be the right term, I mean you know where the person is spatially, just not where they are as your friend any more....
- Aug 28 Thank You Mom I was watching people at lunch today, sitting alone in the corner at Taco Bueno , eating my bean burritos and thinking. There was a mom feeding her son a taco. ...
- Aug 24 Dharma Talk So much is happening right now that I am writing this one to get it all out so that I can see it. First : I had a wonderful talk with Loppön Barbara Du Bois yes...
- Aug 22 Kids, Compassion and Life I talk pretty big about compassion. I even try to live the talk, and I think I do a good job with almost every one I come across; but I fail with my family. Why...
- Aug 18 My Grandfather's Treasure I sat for a couple of hours with my grandfather recently. It has been a long time since I was able to spend so much time alone with him. When I was young I woul...
- Aug 15 Energy, Compassion and Healing I went last night to the Oklahoma City Reiki Energy Circle Meetup . Very nice group of people there. The woman who runs the Meetup has been practicing for 4 or ...
- Aug 11 Because I Love You I feel amazing and elated after watching this: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/144 This blew me away: http://universe.daylife.com/ And this is my new favorite ...
- Aug 11 I am Angulimala I was in church Sunday morning with my family and something dawned on me: I am Angulimala. Well, I don't really think I am a reincarnation of Angulimala , but I...