Coming Down
Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life | 5 Comments »Jan 22, 2006 was a dramatic experience for me. In a way it was freeing, but it also messed me up a bit, and I imagine the problem has to do with my constant thinking. My search for Truth (note ...
National What-Writing Month?
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in My Life, Seen on the Web | 5 Comments »I learned recently that National Novel Writing Month is upon us. Every November, thousands sign up publicly for the challenge of writing a short novel, (or at least 50,000 words of a longer one) at nanowrimo.org. The challenge is inspiring, ...
Tien, and a few other notes
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, My Life | 4 Comments »I'm reading my first novel in Esperanto, now, a book called Tien, by Claude Piron, under the pseudonym "Johano Valano." It's ostensibly a science-fiction story, but really it's about spiritual transformation... really surprising how some of the (co)incidences are lining ...
A subtle lesson
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Nonduality | 9 Comments »Sometimes the difficulty of blogging is that what seems blog-worthy is so subtle, it's very difficult to express. That's what's been going on with me, recently. Nothing big, dramatic, or exciting. Subtle things. For instance, I had an experience recently with ...
An Experiment
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 11 Comments »"Your life is your practice." The masters all say it. My teacher says it, Socrates said it to Dan in Peaceful Warrior, Tolle teaches it in his books. St. Paul taught the principle (Whatever you do, do as for the ...
Mysticism and Religion
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | 14 Comments »To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not mourn.'... ...
Dear Madeleine
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 Posted in Books, Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Spirituality | 6 Comments »Madeleine L'Engle has passed on. Although really the most appropriate thing to say would be "Congrats!", I do find my eyes getting a bit moist thinking about it. Why? Well, that's a long story, but I've got plenty of time. Let's ...
Japanese Communist … Klezmer???
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 Posted in Humor, Music | 5 Comments »OK, that was my stab at describing it, but I've never heard anything like this before. It's a rendition of L'Internationale by Soul Flower Mononoke Summit. Your mission, should you decide to accept it... Listen, and describe what it ...
Yep, I did it again.
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Posted in Language | No Comments »One more blog: The Esperanto Club of Hampton Roads.
Who’s your Daddy?
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Spirituality | 8 Comments »Luke Skywalker loses his mother moments after his birth, and, raised by Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, thinks himself an orphan. Dorothy Gale (in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz) is an orphan raised by Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. Peter Parker, ...