"At the end of the day, I can end up feeling wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation I can keep them as molehills." - Ringo Starr Deciding to meditate, not the original decision, but the one that happens daily, or maybe weekly, can be problematic. Ringo's comment seems realistic, and very... Continue Reading →
"For every complex problem there is an answer that's clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L Mencken I am horribly wrong about almost everything I think I know, and spend an awful amount of time attempting to find answers to stuff. It's fun in a way, even though it feels like I'm stuck in a... Continue Reading →
"I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had time to prepare a short one." - Winston Churchill The conditioned separate self, absolutely loves words and languages. Because it can use them to tell itself and others "stories" about life experiences. A sharing of knowledge. How nice. And words represent my ideas. I... Continue Reading →
"The trauma said, "Don't write these poems, nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones" - Andrea Gibson We have developed the misguided notion that in some strange way we "control" what rises in the stream of thought and body, that we can chose how and what we think about. And... Continue Reading →
"He did each single thing as if he did nothing else." - Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son Enough or not? That is the question. But even the question's a little weird. It already sets up a doubt. Am I enough? Do I have enough of enough? I know when I'm not enough, or don't have... Continue Reading →
"We don't practice meditation to make things better." Charlotte Joko Beck That's one of the sacred cows of meditation. Better. Somehow, even after decades of practice, most of us who are willing to admit it, are still attempting to make life seem "Better" than it is right now. Sitting and just being with what is... Continue Reading →
"Goals can be seen as simple targets, the closer you are to them in time, the more likely to hit bullseye!" - Ana Ma We have goals in life, I support having something that draws us into the future. And I don't think aimlessly wandering the planet engaging in what comes next is necessarily good... Continue Reading →
"Other than what you're thinking and believing in this moment now, are you OK?" - Byron Katie I love Byron Katie, because she's not attempting to be right about anything. She's not attempting to become anyone's Guru or hero. She doesn't speak to any "hidden" mysteries in language or philosophy, but simply and directly points... Continue Reading →
"It's just us." - Unknown I held a group on inquiry and the subject was on perspective, mainly how we may view Buddhism, and Buddha. It was interesting. Immediately someone started discussing "Living Buddha, Living Christ" by Thich Nhat Hanh, a book I have in the bookshelf. It references sayings that allude to the same... Continue Reading →
"Realty is an illusion, albeit a persistent one." - A. Einstein I was holding Spike the cat as I read the above, he looked at me and yawned. I concur. I'm a little tired of the attempt to apply the mathematical equations that relate to Quantum Fields to the mathematical equations that say I can't... Continue Reading →
“Opinions are fantasy. They may be based on fact or not. Opinion presents personal bias and pre-conclusion. Opinions are language trading cards, we use them to gain value and hope to make them true. – People’s Dharma Circle
“The quality of your life will depend entirely upon the focus of your attention.” – Huber
Visions of a People's Dharma 