Tag Archives: religion
Shortwave Memories
When I was twelve, my mother, who claimed she had no luck in contests, won a transistor radio in a raffle and gave it to me. This was a fancy model. With AM, FM, and shortwave bands, a folding antenna, … Continue reading
Filed under Miscellaneous
Kalachakra For World Peace
Here are several photos from the ten day Kalachakra for World Peace that the Dalai Lama began at the New Year in Bodh Gaya, India, where the Buddha found enlightenment 2600 years ago. The crowd is estimated at 200,000. You … Continue reading
Filed under Buddhism, Current Events, Spirituality, Tibet
“Be a Lamp Unto Yourself”
Happy New Year!!!! I thought I would begin the 2012 blogging year with words that have long been an inspiration to me. They come from advice the Buddha gave his disciple, Ananda: “Therefore, Ananda, be a lamp unto yourself, be … Continue reading
Filed under Buddhism, Spirituality
Bird by Bird and Other Writing by Anne Lamott
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day…he was at the kitchen … Continue reading
Filed under Authors, Book Reviews, Spirituality, Writing
How Much is Too Much?
I have to thank Ceinwenn for this topic. He or she (I can’t be sure, since the link takes me to a password protected forum) commented on my previous post, Three Requirements of a Book Review (?). Ceinwenn felt I … Continue reading
Filed under Blogging, Book Reviews, Current Events, Economics
Happy Imbolc, St. Brigid’s Day, Candlemas, Groundhog Day.
Our Celtic ancestors marked the changing seasons not by solstice and equinox days, which divide the year into quarters, but with the “cross-quarter days” which fall between the astronomical events. Seasons figured in this way more closely match our experience in the northern temperate … Continue reading
Filed under Holidays and Festivals, oral tradition
No-Self, Part 3
Jack Kornfield is a widely respected author, teacher of Vipassana or Insight meditation, and a founder of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, http://www.spiritrock.org. In a classic discussion of spiritual practice in general, and Buddhist practice in particular, A Path With … Continue reading
Filed under Buddhism, Spirituality
No Self, Part 2
People and things appear solid and self contained. We mostly experience ourselves as if we just appeared on earth the way Superman did – one day the wonder-baby showed up from outer space. Buddhism suggests that this conventional view is … Continue reading
Filed under Buddhism, Spirituality
Angelology
When I first read the March 15, Time Magazine review of Danielle Trussoni’s, Angelology, ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1969720,00.html )I was struck by the killer premise: the heroic battle of an art historian and a young nun against the Nephilim, nasty, arrogant human-angel … Continue reading
