Category Archives: Inspirational


Turtle Buddha Creates Kindness

June 2, 2008 – 11:36 am

Enlightenment and epiphanies can show up in some pretty strange ways. The Buddha found it under a Boddhi tree, Nelson Mandela in prison and spiritual guru Ram Dass through psychedelic drugs. Little did I know, mine would arrive in the form of a hard-shelled reptile simply trying to cross the road — a turtle.
Shhhh, I’m […]

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Quote: Lao Tzu

May 6, 2008 – 7:29 am

The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be […]

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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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