One day my teacher, Venerable Karma Yeshe Wangpo said to me: “You should teach”. I didn’t. Some weeks passed. Again he said: “You should teach”. Still I didn’t. I guess I am a slow learner. For two whole years he…
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Our thoughts, words, and actions affect us all. Remembering we inter-are.
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A Slow Learner
Tagged with: Buddhism, Compassion, Creator, Ego, God, insight, Spiritual, Spirituality
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Love is Forever
I was meditating this morning. I cried a couple of times. It was a busy meditation session. Lots happening. The happening that ended in tears was my mom. My mom. Sometimes when I look at her wrinkled, beautiful…
Tagged with: Being Present, Being with what is, Dementia, Impermanence, Loss, Love, Meditation, Mom
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A Gift to Remember
The train screeched and groaned its way onto the platform. Silhouetted against the Christmas lights shining through the windows of the station, the darkened figures dotting the platform gradually came into focus. I squinted, trying to locate them through the…
Looks ARE Deceiving
Originally posted on going outwords & inwords:
We can never know what’s going on for someone else. I was at the Tuscon airport a couple of days ago, preparing to fly back home here to Montana. I sat down at…
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Like a Cloud of the Cumulus Sort
Life: Unpredictable. Changeable. Impermanent. When I gaze at my reflection in a mirror, the image I see is very different from the one I saw ten or thirty or forty years ago. From month to month, year to year, and…
Tagged with: Buddhism, Death, Impermanence, insight, life, poetry, Spirituality
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It’s Called Penobscot for a Reason
Originally posted on Finding Our Way Home:
[Penobscot chief, Kirk Francis, speaking at the rally] Yesterday, I went up to Bangor for a Penobscot River Sovereignty Rally. This was in response to a recent Appeals Court ruling that stated that…
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Cherokee Wisdom
The following is something that I shared in 2008 with a group of friends who came to my home to meditate on Sunday mornings. They had all wished to be included in regular emails that I sent out, emails in…
Tagged with: Anger, Buddhism, Cherokee wisdom, Ego, Feeding anger, Meditation, meditators, Spiritual, Spirituality, watching the mind
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