When a member of your new sangha creates an aphorism like the one titling this entry, you know you’ve found home. I love it; such a rich reminder to be present in the moment.
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Meditate on Red, Drive on Green!
28-Apr-04Being who I am
23-Apr-04Dear friends,
I spend way too much time trying to be someone other than who I am. Not so much different, but “more”, “better”, “greater”… I seize upon my interests and take them as far as I’m able before my fuel runs out. Even that is part of who I am; I take on challenges as […]
Gratitude.
08-Apr-04What within us can we call our own? Conceived through the union of our father’s sperm and our mother’s egg, the matter from which we grow in the womb is from our mother, who receives it from the world around her. After birth, we grow taller and heavier not through spontaneous creation of something inside […]
The Passion
30-Mar-04This morning, I watched The Passion of the Christ with a couple co-workers and friends. I left the theatre without being converted to Christianity - in fact, feeling even more certain about my recent understandings about my Buddhist faith. However, Jesus’ example taught such an incredible example of compassion that I understood a sticking point […]
The Gift of Receiving
26-Mar-04When dealing with acquaintances who tend to ask more of us than they give back, we often develop an internal tally of ‘gives’ versus ‘takes’, and with each successive mark in the ‘takes’ column, we feel more uneasy about continuing to give. But this system develops because we view the process incorrectly: when a person […]