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Encore Post – The Eighth Sense
This entry was previously posted in 2008 and is an excerpt from the book, Awake in This Life: a guide for those climbing the Mountain of Spirit. ___ Another way to refer to the Witness is to call it our "Eighth Sense." By this I mean that we have our five senses of...
The Text of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Such beauty. Happy birthday, Martin. Happy birthday. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand...
Encore Post – Nothing Personal
This entry was previously posted in 2008 and is an excerpt from the book, Awake in This Life: a guide for those climbing the Mountain of Spirit. __ As we come off the Mountain of Spirit, we recognize how little about us needs to be defended. This is because we have...
Quote of the Day
Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within ourself that we have built against it. ~ Rumi
Quote of the Day
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields points out that historian Allen Ginsberg, of Maine, says that the tragic events in Arizona suggest something remarkable about America: This week we saw a white, Catholic, Republican, Federal Judge murdered on his way to greet a...
As Ive led groups of meditators over the years, Ive gotten used to hearing that people are looking for something in their lives that is spiritual but not religious. This is understandable since so many feel like theyve evolved past the traditions they grew up...
Egoic Block, Dharma Bomb
I recently gave a Dharma talk that seemed to just bomb. Im used to this, though. My A-game isnt always there now that little kids have been brought into my world. Sleep is a luxury and meditation can easily get interrupted. Dirty diapers, in my current world, trump...
Quote of the Day
Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation. - Tibetan saying
Commuter Zen #33
How can a full-throated, fire-filled response be spiritual?
A Full-throated Roar
The killings in Arizona reminds us that there is no spiritual teaching of any depth that encourages us to avoid what's really going on. In fact, authentic spiritual practice is always grounded in facing what is, and then responding from profound openness. Perhaps...