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…
Out of touch and out of time
Tag: dukkha
The high cost of ownership
And what do we truly own? Definition of OWN: belonging to oneself or itself — usually used following a possessive case or possessive adjective. How many times a day do we view or even verbalize our ownership of people, places…
Escapism is not the solution
Escapism takes us from where to where exactly? Escapism: habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine. How very easily each of us can perceive mediation as our little escape…
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Or is beauty in the eye of the beer holder? As I got dressed this morning after showering, I put on my new jeans and a flannel shirt that my Wife had pressed so beautifully for me. She looked at…
The illness of a weak mind
What can be learned from being sick? Having spent much of the month of December with some type of cold, which turned into a terrible sinus infection, I returned to good health for a couple of weeks. But just as…