I’ve just finished reading Geshe Michael Roach’s book The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life which explains the benefits of living intentionally, provided you are intentionally generous and moral as opposed to intentionally corrupt and self-serving. I don’t know if it’s because of the book or just because I’ve been…
Apparently one of the natural experiences during mindfulness meditation is the mind’s disconcerting habit of generating random thoughts. In my case, lots of them. I haven’t been meditating long or regularly so I seem particularly plagued. Last night while “just sitting,” one such thought that percolated up was actually more of a memory. Suddenly I…
A World Gone Crazy If you keep up with what is going on in the world these days, it’s not hard to wonder if it will ever get better. The latest? A pastor of a church in Gainesville, Florida is “considering” whether or not to burn Qurans on the anniversary of 9/11. The rumor itself…
Abigail aka “Miss Abbie” came into my life the day after Thanksgiving, 2009. Got her at the local animal shelter, the only place to get a cat, in my opinion, unless of course, they have adopted you. She was an awesome deal. I didn’t even have to pay an adoption fee because the shelter thought…
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