OK, so I played a little word jumble here to come up with an interesting title today. I’m stretching I know, but I needed a lead in to discussing dogma’s. Dogma: a principle or set of principles laid down by…
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Feelings
The other day, Bhante was talking to me about cultural differences between Americans and Sri Lankans. He said how Americans look at everything as being about feelings, but this is not the case in Sri Lanka. It really got me…
Letting go of nothingness
Last night as I began my meditation, I decided to try something different. I usually either do Loving kindness (Metta) meditation, where the focus is on loving myself and all other beings. Or I do Mindfulness (Vipassana) meditation, where my…
No thank you’s
Why do you thank me? What have I done? Does the tree thank the clouds for the rain? Do the birds thank the tree for a shelter? Do the flowers thank the Sun for its rays? Do the cows thanks…
My head is in the clouds
“A cloud is a constantly changing visible mass of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended by air in the Earth’s atmosphere.” Now let’s see, I am also a visible mass. I am composed of water and air. I am…