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Inner Smile on a Cold Day

Friday, January 18, 2008

Yesterday was one of those days, you wake-up completely on the wrong side of the bed. Tripping, spilling, cursing the morning away. I thought for sure it was going to be a horrible day. To boot, I’m late and there is ice all over my car. So, after de-icing the car and cranking up the [...]

Update “Spread the Love NOW! Group Writing Project”

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

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Photo Credit As many of you know we were part of a wonderful project called “Spread the Love NOW! Group Writing Project“. Created by those wonderfully enlightened folks at [The Middle Way], [Zen-Inspired Self Development], and [UrbanMonk.net]. The project was fantastic and led me to a whole new group of enlightened ones to read and [...]

A Story of Compassion and Dying

Friday, December 21, 2007

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The Three Monks of blogging– Wade of The Middle Way, Kenton of Zen-Inspired Self Development, and Albert of Urban Monk.Net – have asked in this holiday time of year for us to share our stories of compassion. To see the original post please click he following links: [The Middle Way], [Zen-Inspired Self Development], and [UrbanMonk.net]. [...]

Clean Your Room?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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Today over email a friend confided in all the seemingly crazy events occurring, all coming in waves and each one hitting harder. A relationship fading away, money issues causing worry, family drama and all the such. In reply I was pleased with my thoughts, having been through times like this I felt I was finally [...]

Metta: The Practice of Loving Kindness

Monday, August 6, 2007

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This article was originally published on Helium.com, to see the article, please go here. Metta: the Practice of Loving-Kindness By Kris Vockler Just about every human being goes through varied degrees of contention in a lifetime, a feeling of swimming against the current of a river. This being a form of suffering in life is, [...]

Watch Out for Monkey’s That Fling Poo or Your Ego’s Memory.

Monday, July 23, 2007

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And how the monkey brain swings from tree to tree…This is one of my favorite topics because it’s the one most difficult part of being a human, in my humble opinion. Granted, if I had less of the basic needs taken care of I might say differently but from my perspective this is the big [...]

Awakening the Heart

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

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The pic above is of a lotus flower, a sacred and meaningful flower to Buddhists and other Eastern Philosophies. The reference to the lotus flower is a wonderful icon that describes the path we take to become enlightened. A lotus flower is the icon of purification of the body, the speech, and the mind; blossoming [...]

Ego, Human, Moment of Connection

Friday, January 26, 2007

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We humans are an interesting lot, there is a raw and knowing inside that is guided, ruled, and directed by that all interesting ego. We repel feelings of connection as much as we repel that moment of nothing in our meditation. Fears of letting go, fears of feeling that nothing, all fueled by the ego [...]