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January 18, 2015
Sunday Morning Coming Down – Helpless
Helpless by Nick Cave When I first got connected to the radio station at my college, one of the DJs hooked me up with the album, The Bridge. It was a Neil Young tribute album made up of covers by some of the best indie artists of the 80’s. This Nick Cave cover of Helpless is still […]
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January 17, 2015
Relics – Dirty Dozen
Dirty Dozen In the drive thru at Starbucks waiting for my daily fix of double dirty chai, I was greeted with a pleasant surprise. Rose, the perennial queen of the drive thru, explained to me that the last 12 customers had been paying for the next car’s drinks. Its the little things, isn’t it? One […]
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January 16, 2015
Modern Koans – God and Existence
I came to an interesting little epiphany recently about the concepts of God and existence. It came while I was reading a blog posted by Bante Sujato – a Buddhist blogger from Australia. He very adamantly makes a case that we can be certain that God does not exist. His article is definitely worth a read. But I don’t think […]
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January 15, 2015
One Minute Meditation – Late Autumn Fire
Of the four ancient elements of earth, air, fire, and water, the latter two are the most visually animated. So these make the best subjects for this series of one minute nature meditations. Fire and Water are also fundamental metaphors for one of the most nature based religions of the world, Taoism. In translations of […]
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January 14, 2015
Tiny Drops – Be Real
Be Real Click on images to view the full size slide show. FIVE LIMITLESS THOUGHTS May all living beings have happiness and its causes May all be free from unhappiness and its causes May all dwell in equanimity, free of attraction and aversion May all quickly find the great happiness that lies beyond all misery […]
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January 13, 2015
Compass Songs – Emily Dickinson – Beclouded
Beclouded by Emily Dickinson The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.
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January 12, 2015
Dialectic Two-Step – If Life Were a Game, Who Would Win?
Who Would Win Life? Question: If life were a game, with a score at the end, of all the people in history, who would win? Answer: We’ll never know her name.
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January 11, 2015
Sunday Morning Coming Down – One Paper Kid
One Paper Kid by Emmylou Harris & Willie Nelson If you ever get to hear my wife and I do a song together, this will likely be one of the songs we choose. So as always, settle in to your seat – couch or otherwise – and put on your best Sunday morning lazy. Have a listen. One Paper […]
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January 10, 2015
Got Satisfaction?
By day, I’m a software program manager. I’m a process guy. Flow charts are a valuable way to communicate process effectively. Especially to people who have a visual learning style. I’ve been pondering how to encapsulate Buddhist ideas in a flow chart format. This one came to me recently. You’ve either got self or you’ve got […]
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January 9, 2015
Don’t Even – Things Cats Say
Don’t Even…
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