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 ‘meditation’
Yesterday and Today
Yesterday was the fourth of July and as many of you may know, that is the day that my brother Rhett died four years ago. For the population in general it’s a national holiday, for me it’s a depressing anniversary. This year it wasn’t nearly as difficult as the years proceeding. I miss him and [...]
Therapy and Meditation
In early 1995, shortly after my wife had beaten cancer and my mother had given birth to my baby sister Jasmine, I was feeling as if I were at my wits end from stress. I bottled up anger, bitterness, sadness, and even joy just so I could maintain a calm demeanor in the middle [...]
Buddhism Diary
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, [...]
