For my beautiful wife. She’s so different from me, such a stranger at times, keeps me happily on my toes. Love like gravity, my favorite fugue. Well known but not figured out.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Standing on One Foot
Lately I’ve found a nice alternative to walking meditation when space or time doesn’t allow. Simply standing on one foot requires a great deal of uninterupted concentration while also keeping you alert, improving your balance and strengthening your ankles. With…
Metta for Children
Tonight my 4 year old daughter was having trouble getting to sleep. The fourth time she called one of us back into her room, I remembered a thought I had earlier in the day. I’d listened to a wonderful dhamma…
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Pali Canon as Teacher?
One of my Twitter friends, Mike D posted a link a while back to this FAQ on fundamentalbuddhism.com. It’s a response to the common question from those newly interested in practicing Buddhism: Do I need a local teacher? Their answer may…
Shikantaza – The mind of someone facing death
I’ve always read about and practiced Theravada and insight meditation techniques, though the simplicity of Zen has always held a certain, though admittedly uninvestigated, appeal. The Mahayana sutras were always too big a stretch from secularism for me to get my head…
Online Teacher-led Sanghas
The Wildmind blog included a post today about Bodhipaksa’s Skype-based weekly teaching and online sangha: Bodhipaksa has been meeting regularly for a year now with a small, friendly, and very dedicated group of Buddhists. Every Tuesday night we meet, do a…
Spring
A happy Spring sun warms young grass and marinates last year’s crumpled leaves. It’s a beautiful early Spring-like day, and I’m looking forward to a nice long run in the woods. It’s so easy to let the seasons pass by…
Anxiety: An Old Dog
Anxiety is one of the most unpleasant emotions, and it always comes when something has already gone wrong. Example: I’m in charge of a number of Internet servers at my job, and when there’s a problem and service goes down,…
The sum of our parts
Listened to a dharma talk today about the five aggregates with Pascal Auclair. He calls them the five rivers, a good reminder that we’re a complex process made up of many other processes with nothing fixed. The five aggregates of…
