I just started re-reading a book I haven’t read in at least 20 years, Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. I find it absolutely kick me in the nuts jaw droppingly amazing that despite the fact that I haven’t read this book since 1989 I remember it. I remember everything in here. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buddhism’
Holding Back the Storm
I was just reading Thich Nhat Hanh on the subject of impermanence. He makes note of the fact that it appears that our suffering in life comes from the impermanence of things. Life itself is impermanent as death takes us all away in time and when we lose the ones we love, we [...]
Religious Precepts I Can Agree With
http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/resources/14_precepts.html
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The other day I was in a meeting with my son’s mother. She complained to me that he has become increasingly vocal in his criticisms of religion and religious faith (especially Christianity) and she figured it was my fault for “teaching him atheism”.
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I’m not sure if I’m a Buddhist.At one point, I was fairly certain that I was one because I understood it intellectually and agreed with it. Reading texts like the Dhammapada filled me with a sense of serenity and understanding. Reading about Buddhism, reading descriptions of it’s philosophical underpinnings, it’s goals, it’s history, [...]
Learn Something New Every Day
I have wanted to get back to blogging for awhile now but have not done so basically due to the fact that I have not known what I wanted to blog about. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but it is to me. I don’t want to do the [...]
Ryan Sutter, Creationist?
Back in 2001 when I was a Christian Creationist of the Jehovah’s Witness variety, I got involved in an creation/evolution debate on Usenet. I was soundly thrashed. It was a puzzling event for me because I was so certain that I was right and couldn’t understand how the “evolutionists” kept whooping my tail [...]
