I’m typing this while I am in the air flying from Syracuse to Charlotte with my final destination Corona, California to spend 8 days with my brother. There may be a murder. No, seriously I like my brother tremendously and highly respect him, his life, and his large family. We both are almost complete opposites. He likes hot weather, I like cold. He likes large families, I prefer my single life. He likes race cars,…
Today I am offering to you an interesting post, diverging a bit from posting about strictly Buddhist topics. I ran across these images while going through my photos for my upcoming book Contemplating Illness. These are photos that I took when I visited the US National POW Museum in Andersonville, GA back in 2004. Andersonville is in a very remote corner of the state of Georgia and I visited there on the return trip to…
Today was our second venture into the fourth part of the four part formula of Nonviolent Communication, NVC, Requests. This is hard work as you can witness from the comments and struggles of our Sangha today. Perhaps you too will take advantage of the moments of silence and seriously engage in your own reflections and thoughts. NVC is hard work, it is about learning a new way of engaging in conversations and communication as well…
Today our Dharma Talk covered the fourth part of the four part Nonviolent Communication, NVC formula. Requests may seem as if they should be simple yet when done according to the NVC way they are indeed challenging. Some my think they are not workable, I challenge that because with skill and practice every part of the NVC approach is possible and beneficial to engaging in connecting conversations. Mostly it is a matter of practice and…
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