A practice thought that came to me today ( Read more... )

Often I try to find the meaning behind in the pain ( Read more... )

I recently finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which I started in Portland due to some cravings for good fiction. I wasn't too thrilled with the last quarter of the book. I kind of felt like Dick (um, the author) didn't know where to go with the story after the big climax. Still, he did raise interesting questions about what separates ( Read more... )

So out of curiosity and because a couple of people recommended it,  I rented The Secret, which is supposedly about unlocking the secret to the universe that will allow you to get what you want and make you a successful person. Hella new-agey, but it apparently has a cult following.

Don't get me wrong -- I very much believe in the power of positive ( Read more... )

realizations: what I KNOW, not just believe, not just think, not just feel, not just hope or dream or speculate, but KNOW to be true because of experience.

+  beeen thinking a bit about right speech which is connected to the other two "dharmas", right thought and right action. being silent for 10 days at the vipassana retreat put me through the ( Read more... )