I have to start right off the bat here with an apology. I can't do anything but laugh at channeling, and I know I should have more respect for those who buy into it, more so for those for whom it is "real" subjective phenomena. So I'm sorry and offer my apologies to those who find this offensive or disrespectful. But HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ( Read more... )

Seems like everywhere I look people in this country are behaving out of utterly misguided and corporate-media-manipulated beliefs and values. Nothing brings this out so clearly as presidential politics. I mean people actually believe that Barack Obama is "unamerican" because the media and the Republican smear machine is telling them that's what ( Read more... )

I've lately been contemplating the powerful influence that the Japanese culture had on the Druk Sakyong and the formation of many elements of Shambhala practice. Though Japan is but one of many contributors to the overall culture of Shambhala, it is in many ways the one that feels utterly "no problem" to me, utterly ordinary but in a sharp and I ( Read more... )