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 ...
Language rules my life.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 Posted in Language, Mind, My Life | 2 Comments »I told my teacher today that my life has become language. In addition to studying ASP.net, "classical" ASP, OOP, and C#, my boss asked me a few days ago to become an expert in XML and XSL. (He knew ...
Open Mind, Empty Mind
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Mind, Site log / Geek | 3 Comments »Well, I'm honored (and a little embarrassed) that Darrell Hamsa Grizzell has awarded me the Open Mind Blogger Award, a recognition of "respect towards others, research and consideration of opposing views, free-flowing conversation with commenters, and an overall spirit of ...
Hofstadter and this last week
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 7 Comments »This week has been good. To explain it, I'm going to have to start with my college days. During my undergrad years in El Paso, I was in an extremely conservative congregation. My desire to know God had been subverted, ...
Blogs That Make Me Think
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 Posted in Mind, Site log / Geek | 6 Comments »Kay just tagged me as a "thinking blogger." The rules of the meme are that now I need to tag five other blogs that make me think. These are mostly chosen for their "seniority" on my blogroll. Since everything ...
Steve Pavlina on the Law of Attraction
Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 5 Comments »The "Law of Attraction" is definitely buzzing around the memosphere now. The movie and book The Secret deal with the idea, although rather superficially, almost conveying the idea of magical wish fulfullment. That approach has been roundly and properly criticized, ...
Love your neighbor
Friday, February 16th, 2007 Posted in Love, Mind, My Life, Spirituality | 18 Comments »Yesterday at work, I felt love for everyone around me. Friends, strangers, and even those whom I sometime don't get along with so much. It's a wonderful feeling. It was partially a conscious decision—I want to love them. It was also ...
365 days later
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Nonduality, Spirituality | 8 Comments »It was a year ago that I had that "glimpse" that I posted about as "the suck." I remember it as one of the most significant spiritual experiences of my life—up there with my "born again" experience in my youth, ...