More updates
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Posted in Health / Fitness, My Life | 2 Comments »Okay, I'm really sorry I haven't been blogging consistently. It's easy to say there's been a lot going on, but man, has there been a lot going on! I'm buying a condo! It's in a beautiful converted house that looks ...
Losing Weight, Gaining Life!
Sunday, April 18th, 2010 Posted in Books, Health / Fitness, My Life | 6 Comments »Last night I ran into a friend whom I hadn't seen since December. She was shocked at how different I looked. Since January 18, I've been following a program called The Alternate-Day Diet. I started at 225 lbs. (102 ...
Watching Life
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, My Life, Spirituality | 5 Comments »Once I watched an exciting past episode of Lost with a friend who also enjoys it, but who couldn’t stop thinking about it as he watched it. An action scene begins, and he shouts, “No way! The water wouldn’t have ...
Beyond Impossibility
Monday, March 15th, 2010 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 5 Comments »Living in a world of "conditioned existence" as Buddhists say, is living in a world of possibilities, and impossibilities. Freedom lies beyond impossibility. All the Teachers know it. Hence the koans: What is the sound of one hand? How does one pinch smoke? What did you ...
Marathon (and other) updates
Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in Health / Fitness, Language, My Life | 4 Comments »I won't be running in the Shamrock Marathon this month. I had some substantial problems with my left Achilles' tendon, and after some rest, a lot of physical therapy, a couple of shoe changes, and wearing an ankle brace, ...
Seeds
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 Posted in Nonduality, Poetry, Spirituality | 7 Comments »The mightiest redwood grew from a small seed in a cone, and that, in turn, sprang from a seed from a cone from another redwood, and so on. For generations, centuries, millennia. Every seed stores not only the raw potential of ...
Marathon(s) update
Friday, December 4th, 2009 Posted in Health / Fitness, My Life | 3 Comments »Well, the writing marathon, NaNoWriMo, is finally over. I and my friends Zach and Margreet all won, which is to say, we completed the challenge of writing a 50,000-word rough draft of a novel. Now, some friends have enquired about when ...
My Other Marathon
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Books, My Life | 5 Comments »Besides the marathon I'll be running in March 21, I've signed up for another one of sorts as well. This one starts in just three-and-a-half hours. It's called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. I'm not ...
In Training
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 Posted in Books, Health / Fitness, My Life | 4 Comments »I’m in training. For a marathon! Yeah, you read that right, and it still sounds as unbelievable to me as it does to anyone reading this who knows me. Sure, I wrote earlier about starting a running program; I began ...
Back to Basics
Monday, September 21st, 2009 Posted in Spirituality | 20 Comments »In an earlier post, I wrote that most people learn to see the world from the ideas they’re taught, instead of “the undeniable aspects of their own experience.” Yes, there are undeniable aspects of our experience. Do you want to ...
