Category Archives: Distinctions


The Practical Importance Of Seeing

April 21, 2008 – 12:58 pm

I wanted to share a dispatch from headless.org.   Richard Lang runs the website, and offers a e-course called Reflections - A Course in Seeing.  This is #88:
It would be difficult to overstate the practical importance of this discovery, its consequences for everyday living. All alienation, all separation, the many-sided threat of hostile things and […]

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Letting Mom Die

April 16, 2008 – 10:19 pm

My Mother died this Monday, April 14th at 2pm. My brother, wife, and I were with here and witnessed her last moments. Her heart beat its last while I was holding her hand.
This comes at the end of eight years of congestive heart failure. Her first collapse was due to water retention, […]

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You Are All Of That All

April 4, 2008 – 11:46 am

From one of my favorite websites - Headless.org
At the very core of the great religious traditions - overlaid, neglected, very often vehemently denied by religious experts, but nevertheless the taproot those traditions spring from and are sustained by - is one perfectly lucid, simple, awesome, beautiful realization. It’s a proclamation which deserves all the trumpets […]

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Position Situations to Gain More Contentment

April 3, 2008 – 12:54 pm

Leo, over at ZenHabits, has a great post today - The Incredible Power of Contentment.
Leo gives some good advice on what constitutes contentment, and how to achieve it. I like the section on how, “We choose whether we are happy or unhappy” particularly. Judging from some of the comments he got, I feel […]

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Wheel In The Sky Keep On Turning

March 6, 2008 – 3:19 pm

The period from the eighth century, to the second century BC is referred to as the Axial Age. During this time, in several points around the globe, man’s search for an answer took a major turn. The Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Jesus (a bit outside of the time frame), the Jewish Mystic masters; […]

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