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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Mysticism and sexuality
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, Spirituality | 15 Comments »I want to thank everyone who commented on my last post. I also want to clarify and dig deeper into part of the huge area I addressed in it. What I was really wondering when I asked "why is ...
sex
Sunday, August 5th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, Spirituality | 16 Comments »Ah, so I got your attention! Yesterday, I wrote my first poem in Esperanto... unfortunately, I neglected to save it on my computer, and when my machine did one of its random reboots, it was lost and I haven't been ...