Welcome back, Mark!
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 Posted in Seen on the Web, Spirituality | 3 Comments »There's at least one good thing about a wonderful blogger taking a hiatus from Web: like all things it tends to be impermanent. Mark Walter of Eternal Awareness is back. Mark's blog has struck me as one of the wisest and ...
At peace in a world of conflict
Monday, August 14th, 2006 Posted in Mind, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | 7 Comments »So much drama in the world! The strange thing is that, other than a very strong wish for peace, I'm very unmoved by it. I feel in a way, almost like Ashtavakra: The world and all its swirling storms are ...
Imagine (interlude)
Saturday, August 12th, 2006 Posted in Books, Music, My Life | 2 Comments »I went to a peformance of The Mystical Arts of Tibet by monks from the Drepung Lobsang monastery in India. (A wonderful experience, by the way. If you ever get the chance, go see it.) After the performance, I went ...
Time for a change
Friday, August 11th, 2006 Posted in Site log / Geek | 1 Comment »When I returned to blogging in April, I switched my publishing engine from "(ext)Movable Type":http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ to "(ext)WordPress":http://wordpress.org. I never got around to really integrating my static pages with my blog. In fact, I've simply used various WP themes (such as ...
Meditation on “Imagine” pt. 3
Thursday, August 10th, 2006 Posted in Mind, Music, Spirituality | 2 Comments »Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace... "And no religion too" has a been a difficult part of the song for me until recently. One of ...
Why should we bother seeking enlightenment?
Monday, August 7th, 2006 Posted in Mind, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | 6 Comments »This is why: Torii after Nagasaki atomic blast, August 9, 1945
Is the Buddha a recognized Christian saint?
Sunday, August 6th, 2006 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | 1 Comment »Saint Siddhartha Gautama, pray for us! Sure, _I've_ recognized the Buddha as a saint for years, but imagine my surprise when I received an email from a reader today pointing out that "Saint Josaphat" is a figure derived from the story ...
Peaceful Warrior
Saturday, August 5th, 2006 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | 2 Comments »I just got out of the Naro's showing of Peaceful Warrior, based on Dan Millman's novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. It's simply *perfect.* Finally, a film with overt teaching on the path, that succeeds on all levels and by ...
Ashtavakra Gita
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality | 2 Comments »In the "(ext)WisdomReading":http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WisdomReading group, we're beginning the Ashtavakra Gita, one of my favorite of the world's Scriptures despite the fact that it's relatively little-known. Here's a except from a recent post I made there: ... The challenge with ??Ashtavakra?? is probably in being ...
There I am
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Posted in Mind, Spirituality | 3 Comments »You know the guy who never remembers where he parked his car, and has to survey the parking lot before he finds it? That's me. Now, I don't identify with my car... But recently, I had that experience and when I ...