26 May 2010 |
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I just returned from conducting a week-long silent Advanced Meditation Retreat at Dzogchen Retreat Center outside Austin, Texas, and also leading a very friendly Dzogchen meditation weekend called "Living the Enlightened Life" at a church in Southern Calif. (Orange County) near U. of Calif. at Irvine—and here I find, surprisingly enough, that it's warmer here this week in the Lake District of Concord, Mass., than it was in LA! Quelle surprise.
On the long cross-country plane ride, I happened to fall upon an article about evolution in the Wall Street Journal by Matt Ridley and got excited about...
12 May 2010 |
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My good friend, author, and coach Cheryl Richardson, sent me this recently, which I thought I'd share with y'all. I’m down here amidst the wildflower fields on the banks of the Pedernales River at the Dzogchen Center outside Austin, leading our semi-annual week-long Advanced Dzogchen Meditation Intensive for a group of experienced practitioners.
“Self-Care Club:
I've just arrived home from Omega where I taught a Mother's Day weekend retreat about developing the qualities and habits of an extraordinary mother. We had a terrific group of women and this week I'd like to share ten pieces...
04 May 2010 |
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Genocide poses a crisis of conscience to all of us who care about the world beyond the small circle of ourselves. Yesterday I heard Mia Farrow speak and show slides at the World Trade Center in Boston about the humanitarian crisis and genocide in Darfur, West Sudan, where millions have perished. An actress, mother and activist, she is now focused full time on the Sudan crisis as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors on behalf of the United Nations Children's Fund.
In Khartoum, the capital of that country--Africa’s largest--mass murderer Omar Al Bashir has won re-election and is now the first head-of-state...
26 Apr 2010 |
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I was teaching a weekend meditation workshop in Seattle for Earth Day yesterday, and visited the arboretum and a research greenhouse at the U. of Washington there. My old friend John Perkins, economist and shaman, sent me this to think about and share.
Buddhism teaches that the whole world is my body, and sentient beings my heart-mind. We are each like cells in the body of the cosmos.
"10 Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
Dear Friends,
As part of the celebration of Earth Day, I wanted to send this very important message to you. Thank you for your continued support and all that I know...
23 Apr 2010 |
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My dear friend and colleague Cheryl Richardson, spiritual author and life coach, asks us to fill in the blank at the end of this sentence: The best actions for me to take to get back in alignment with my Highest Self are..."
(So: Please think about this for a few minutes. Later, take these into action.)
My answer of the moment:
To breathe, relax, center, focus and smile. Breathing in and out, consciously, intentionally, is like reconnecting/reuniting heaven and earth.
Breathing in, calming and clearing, relaxing, lightening and brightening the heart & mind. Breathing out, relaxing, letting...
12 Apr 2010 |
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Are there any facts we can count on anymore in this protean world of ours? Or is it all just smoke and mirrors, like a dream, and entirely subjective? What’s with science these days, the supposedly reliable arbiter of modern realities and verities?
How is it that our government scientists during the Bush-Cheney era had such varied opinions on sensitive and crucial matters, from Weapons of Mass Destruction to global warming, to whether or not we’ve been in an economic depression, a recession, or a mere downturn during recent years? I want to know how to effectively winnow through the welter...
30 Mar 2010 |
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You lucky people; click and attain enlightenment. Ah, if only it was that easy! Yet the world of Buddha-Dharma (liberating wisdom) is at our fingertips, in the palm of our hands, the click of a mouse. When you click this link, you will betransported to four minutes of Dzogchen transmission: in those four minutes you will hear this Long Island Jew with a Sanskrit name (Lama Surya Das) reading the poetic exhortation of a major 14th century Tibetan saint named Longchenpa (who probably composed the words in a cave), as translated by a "spiritual refugee" from England (Keith Dowman, author and scholar)...
20 Jan 2010 |
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"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love." --Meister Eckhart
24 Dec 2009 |
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Should Humanity Have Been Created? This has long been a debate among learned Jews.
In fact, long ago in the holy land, several centuries after Jesus’ time, the most learned rabbis of the two rival schools of philosophy, Hillel and Shammai, met together to discuss this critical issue.
After two years of intense debate, they decided by majority vote--in true Jew fashion, pessimistic realists to the end, that…It would’ve been better if it hadn’t ever happened!
But then, again true to Jewish form, they decided that given the obvious fact that we have been created—shit happens!—we must...
