We all see what is happening around us and to us through filters. Our conditioning, our reality-tunnels, our meaning grids. Whatever you wand to call them, they are there. Another word for these filters might be our maps of reality. Bearing in mind that the maps are never the territory, they [...]
Your life is a conditioned one. All aspects of it. Everything you see, hear, think and do is modified by and works through conditions. Your birth itself is conditional. Without the conditions of your parents having had intercourse, you would not be. The food you eat, the rest you get, the [...]
Random stuffs (I like) from surfing today:
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping. –Chinese Proverb
The 10 Cat Herding Pictures of Enlightenment over at MonkMojo’s 1,000 Cuts.
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras.
The Buddha Patch!
Very touching new reflection over at Do No Harm.
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Today I am enjoying the pleasure of writing at my favorite neighborhood cafe (Mission Creek on Valencia in SF. Word.) As I am getting my write-on, my brain tingling to the caffeine/fuel, looking at my fellow cafe goers, I am recalling a few passages scattered across various writing how-to books and blogs floating [...]
From a comment to Spiritual Experience vs. Realization (or What’s The Point, Anyway?), over at MommyMystic.com:
If part of what you are saying here is that the main plus of formal spiritual practice is that eventually you give up on it, and then are truly able to surrender, then I have to say, YES, it does [...]