Be Where Your Butt Is How many places can you be or are you being at any one moment? When you’re sitting at work is you mind split between here and there? When you are at home relaxing for the evening, is your mind someplace else, perhaps even back at work? Perhaps you are having dinner with friends and your mind is wandering off someplace in space. Maybe even while playing with your children you…
Habitual Living Everyday we wake up to a brand new day. It can be somewhat misleading because there will be much about the day that will look and feel like many previous days. The truth is that probably much of the day will be gone through on autopilot. Habits are very efficient when it comes to living. Because we have developed habitual ways of doing things we aren’t required to relearn how to do all…
Ever Deepening Occasionally I am asked questions such as how long will it take me to become enlightened, or if I practice a certain length of time will I be enlightened. Usually these questions come from people not familiar with Buddhism, but sometimes they do come from practitioners. And if it isn’t a question similar to those it is some statement that indicates there is a belief that enlightenment is a terminus point. I usually…
Mind Of Gratitude What would it take, I wonder, to enable you to not be angry? I wonder if there is something that could effectively replace or eliminate all anger from occurring in my mind? It’s an interesting thought. I know for myself, when I am most content or my life seems the most full I am less prone to experiencing or engaging in anger within myself. One way to fill up our lives is…
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