Archived Posts
Space Inside – Dharma Talk – August 14, 2019
Frequently I am asked about Sangha building. I have given a few Dharma talks on this subject and have mentioned this in some of my daily meditations. Sangha building is nothing more than building a community, something we engage in many ways every day. Our whole lives actually revolve around community building on many different…
Non Violent Communication – Observation – Video – June 2, 2020
This is the second Dharma Talk in the series of our study of Non Violent Communication, NVC. Today the talk focuses primarily on Observation and how value laden observations are really about self being overlaid onto a particular situation. This view of things from the perspective of self leads to suffering. Subscribe to my blog…
Contemplating Disease – Part 7 – Shijo Kingo and Managing Illness – September
In Chih-I’s time, and in fact for most of the time humans have been around until more recent times, the idea of living with long term illness didn’t exist much. You either recovered or you died in most cases. With the advances of modern medicine people are living longer, dying at later ages, and living…
Just finished reading “Century Rain” by Alastair Reynolds. Very good story if you like SF. Now time to go to sleep.
Took the pup for a nice long walk, she is tuckered out asleep at my feet. Listening to Prarie Home Companion.
Spending a very relaxing day with the puppy and reading some as well as a few minor projects. The sun is trying to poke out from behind clouds.
Fire in house two doors down. Firetrucks just leaving.