An atheist, a monotheist, and a panentheist
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in Humor, Spirituality | 7 Comments »An atheist, a monotheist, and a panentheist walk into a smoke-filled, crowded bar. The bartender is at the far end, but the atheist can't see him through the haze. Finally the atheist declares to his monotheist friend, "There is no ...
Merry Subversion!
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | 7 Comments »I'm having a subversive Christmas. I'm thinking about the subversiveness of the Christmas story. Why subversive? Spirituality is by its nature subversive... it sees significance and meaning beyond the material... that something is going on behind the "seen". Awakening (what I usually ...
Beat the crap out of Yule log…
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 Posted in Humor | 4 Comments »and Yule log will crap out good things for you! It's true, at least in Catalonia! Of course, there's more to the caga tió than that... But how does Tió feel about this? God, I can't wait to go to Barcelona! Wishing ...
One Word
Friday, December 7th, 2007 Posted in Humor, Seen on the Web, Spirituality | 16 Comments »Proving reincarnation among human beings is challenging and controversial. However, proving reincarnation (redigitalization?) among blogs is much simpler. Case in point: Eternal Awareness, one of the wisest and most beautiful blogs (or even websites) that I've ever come across, is ...
The Payoff of Esperanto
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 Posted in Language | 10 Comments »Something that many Esperantists have to contend with is the perception that a planned language is somehow useless, something on a par of Pig Latin. (One of these is a co-worker and friend of mine, who often reminds me of ...
I succumbed!
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Seen on the Web | 5 Comments »It's Darrell's fault. And Trev describes it. I'd almost describe myself as allergic to the oh-so-trendy social networking stuff, particularly online communities... MySpace strikes me as a kid's crayon drawing on the wall, Zaadz is nice, spiritual and, well, boring. ...
Heroes
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, My Life, Spirituality | 6 Comments »I almost feel like I'm coming back to life after being gone awhile! For the last three days, I've been on a "detox" diet, eating vegan, avoiding sugar, limiting caffeine, and exercising. I already feel a vast difference... I have ...
Time for a change!
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Teacher / Practice | 11 Comments »I fit the stereotype of the computer geek who lives mostly in front of a screen, at work because it's my job, and at home because it's fun. However, this lifestyle has its price... I'm fat, or as the Department ...
Snapping out of it
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life | 3 Comments »I'm a pretty happy guy, but around the middle of the week I got hit by a several days of sadness that seemed to be triggered by nothing in particular, and about nothing in particular. But it was strong and ...
At any time…
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Mind, Spirituality | 3 Comments »A Zen master (I don't remember who) once said, "at any time, it is possible for anyone to exchange the radiant mind of the Buddha, for that of a demon." This is true. Sometimes it's a trigger: one word, one ...