Gabriel Gudding's Blog, page 29

Studies suggest that merely pursuing happiness by itself ...

Studies suggest that merely pursuing happiness by itself can cause people to become more selfish, less able to develop a persuasive argument, more gullible, worse at remembering, and more likely to be influenced by stereotypes. This may be instructive for those who make a concerted effort to "be happy," as meditators do. Meditators are one of the few groups of people that I know of who actively

happyitis

Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism, p. 53, Harvey Aronson, student of S. N. Goenka, following the theme of the chpt that "one who practices mindfulness [alone:] is not liberated from enmity," while one who practices mindfulness along w/ metta bhavana is. 


This is important because one can sometimes know meditators who are cold, who are uncaring, who are curiously selfish in their pursuit

Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism, p. 53, Harvey Ar...

Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism, p. 53, Harvey Aronson, student of S. N. Goenka, following the theme of the chpt that "one who practices mindfulness [alone:] is not liberated from enmity," while one who practices mindfulness along w/ metta bhavana is.

mittānukampako(burr oak)

mittānukampako
(burr oak)

burr oakmittānukampako

burr oak
mittānukampako

the illinois river

the illinois river

for yr book

The tree spent most of its life in Calaveras County.

There is no absolute limit to the existence of any tree.

Yggdrasil is the foremost of trees.

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense.
One will have no difficulty in knowing the Nut Pine.


Few are

pkm's studyfuture home, wisconsinthat's nathan hallie ...

pkm's study


future home, wisconsinthat's nathan hallie austin alden


viroqua wi, very like vermontone day pkm's vacation home


beavers eat root cambrium in winter"(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud"


the clovis first of the first nations lived here 12,000 yrs, kickapoo riverfor 2,000 they shared this country w/ the american lion (larger than the african lion)the saber tooth

from pkm's studyfuture home, wisconsinthat's hall...

from pkm's study







future home, wisconsinthat's hallie austin alden nathan, who sit







where pkm sees eagles lots







viroqua wi, very like vermont, one day pkm's vacation home here







beavers eat root cambrium in winteryou might know that poem"(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud"







the sauk, of the first nations, lived here for 12,000 yrstiny people r

these friends you know

these friends you know