Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I Like It...but Is It Meditation?

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An Appreciation of Everyday Mindfulness Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. --Abraham Joshua Heshel My life is full of medi...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Does the moon call upon the gnat to move the mountain to the sea?

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--and other zenny answers for your friends. You’ve been practicing for awhile now, and some of your friends are starting to be concerned. Ha...
Friday, November 07, 2008

Black Cat of Desire

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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. --attributed (like so m...
Thursday, November 06, 2008

Play's the Thing: The Lighter Side of Meditation

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In 1978, I sat a nine-day silent vipassana retreat with the then-89-year-old Cambodian Thervadan Buddhist monk, Bhante Dharmawara--who went ...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

My soul

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Seems like the English language is designed to keep us in the comfortable cocoon of dualism, the idea that a person is essentially an immate...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

Shuffling Mind

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I'm fond, too fond, of saying, "I don't have a mind, I just mind." My problem with "mind" as a noun is the impli...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The Myth of the Experienced Meditator

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[Published in Tricycle , Spring 2008] ...I tell [Kyodo Roshi] I want to take my practice to a deeper level. “Deeper level?” He laughs again....

As If I'd Never Left

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Some facts just resonate and resonate, can’t get enough of them.... * We consist of two parts, soma and genome. Soma arrives and leaves ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Meditation 101: Less is More

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My instructions for first-time meditators are becoming more and more minimalist. These days, it’s something like, “Sit quietly and notice wh...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Gratitude List

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There's nothing like a gratitude list to move on, get with the program, leave the blues behind…Here's mine for today: 1. Writing. T...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

What am I pretending not to know?

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Seems to me the US is going to hell in a hand basket, and much of the world with it. Yet to many of us, it’s so obvious what’s wrong: acquis...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Happiness: the way out

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So happiness, again. Take a look at the origin of the word... Happenstance, haphazard, hapless, luck, the blessing of the gods. That’s what ...

Death, according to George Wald (1970)

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"It’s rather odd that we regard mass suicide on the part of lemmings as an aberration, as a kind of psychopathic behavior; whereas our ...
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Not talking about God

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Feynman described himself as a 'non-believer.' ...When I asked him what he meant, he said, "You describe it; I don't believ...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

Introduction and Postscript

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If you’re not happy here and now, you never will be. Taisen Deshimaru I do love Joe Bob Briggs (joebobbriggs.com). Joe Bob reviews B movies,...
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Thursdays at the Jail

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Thursday nights four of us 'zennys' take turn facilitating meditation at our local county jail. Room 322 is rather a sad little spac...
Friday, November 03, 2006

The Turtle Problem

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Galapagos, 1985 Quite possibly the greatest book ever written on the subject of turtle stacking. Lisa Simpson on Yertle the Turtle by Dr. S...
Monday, October 30, 2006

Make Me One with Everything

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Sometimes when I'm meditating, I'll have an experience of spaciousness, when it seems that Barry is no more, there's just everyt...
Saturday, October 14, 2006

The Search

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You have invested everything in one basket, self- realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Teachers

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I daily honor my teachers by ignoring them. Steven Harrison There surely are things we can learn about from teachers--global warming, calcu...
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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Real simple

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Look it's real simple. We all know this, but here it is again. Right now is all there is (and even that's a bit iffy)... The past i...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

57 POVs

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1. Life is up and life is down, there's no way to be consistently happy. 2. Any effort I put into being happy will almost certainly resu...
Monday, August 21, 2006

And around we go

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Every so often--usually when we're out in the country somewhere--I find myself staring at the moon, trying to viscerally experience my p...
Sunday, August 06, 2006

The Catch-22 of self-acceptance

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If I accept myself as I am, I will never improve, I'll be stuck with being uptight, judgmental, depressed the rest of my life. I need fi...
Friday, August 04, 2006

Wondering what she was on

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If you're reading this, you may well be a fan of Richard Linklater's Waking Life --not just a film about lucid dreaming, but a dream...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Jim's question

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Last night, Jim asked (brilliantly I thought), "What's the best question I can ask to start a discussion about consciousness?"...
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Monday, July 17, 2006

Too involved with remodeling to post anything

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Except this: The meaning of "secure a building" in different branches of the military: If you told Navy personnel to "secure ...
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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Fat enough for you?

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...if you drink a beverage--whether it's a soft drink or juice or beer--you don't compensate by eating less food later. Barry Popkin...
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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Ocean motion

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(email to Louisa) Nearly but not quite halfway thru the year: you're reading this tomorrow in Guanajuato, at 7,000 feet elevation in the...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Dreamin' our lives away?

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We do not perceive the world directly, as it truly is; we actively construct it. We construct ourselves, too. Our ordinary waking self is as...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Gassho

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gassho A position used for greeting, with the palms together and fingers pointing upwards in prayer position; used in the Zen tradition, but...
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