A dear friend called me today that I have not talked to in quite a while. I was flabbergasted to hear that my posts here have been sorely missed. I have been very busy the last many months, and I…
Why I’m important
Tag: breath
Standards and practices
What kind of standards do we hold one another up to? With a huge part of our practice being about acceptance and patience, one would think that we should have no standards with which we hold others accountable. But let’s…
Out of touch and out of time
Two things became clear to me this morning during my practice. One of which is that I may becoming out of touch with some people. While certainly I may becoming more in-touch with others, I don’t think that being out…
Sri Lanka and the Ukraine
A dear friend of mine is currently visiting Sri Lanka, and writing regularly about the experience on his Blog. In a most recent post, he discusses the extreme poverty of most people in that country and his observations of how…
Shut up and get over it!
Who are you telling to shut up? More and more I am coming to see that so much of our conversing is beyond a waste of time. It is also a cultivation of less than mindful stories, drama, disturbance, opinions…