Reality Out of Sync

I have read a book called Ishmael. It’s a good book. It’s a philosophical book (fictional, but philosophical, there’s a telepathic ape….) that points out some very interesting and demonstrably true things in our world as it functions today and as it has functioned for quite some time. In particular, I’m curious about what anyone [...]

If we have…presence of mind then whatever work we do will be the very tool which enables us to know right and wrong continually. There’s plenty of time to meditate, we just don’t fully understand the practice, that’s all. While sleeping we breathe, eating we breathe, don’t we? Why don’t we have time to meditate? [...]

The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness. -His Holiness the Dalai Lama With that in mind, I’m drawn to a time sitting in the airport on my way back from the East. I believe I was in China at the time. As I was waiting [...]

I’m going to go out on a limb here. You’ll have to excuse me while I do this and hope to your deity that the earth doesn’t split open and swallow itself into a black hole or some mysterious singularity. My friend, Leesa, wrote down a phrase in her blog. What it amounted to was [...]