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naljorma

About Me

What to say? I daydream, watch my girls homeschool, work on training my mind... life is good!

My Interests

freedom, buddhism, family, rain, reading, hot hot baths, animals, singing loudly off-key, movies, contemplating, wood fires, dreams, laughing, poetry, sky-dancers, trees, drums, napping, eating food I've grown, rivers, hot cups of tea,.....

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Music:

Natalie Merchant, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, the Strokes, Santana, Fleetwood Mac, Joy Riders, Linda Ronstadt, the Clash, Dixie Chicks, No Doubt, Sting, Norah Jones, Johnnie Cash, Beastie Boys, Police, Descendants, Prince, the Cult, Patsy Cline, Talking Heads, Nirvana, Violent Femmes...

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine, Kundun, Flirting With Disaster, Best in Show and anything else done by Christopher Guest and the gang, the Usual Suspects, Elf, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dumb and Dumber, Memento, the Wizard of Oz, Jacob's Ladder, Edward Scissorhands, Into the Wild ...

Television:

Six Feet Under, Lost, Survivor, The Office, The Daily Show, the Bachelor (no, I'm not kidding)

Books:

biographies of great yoginis and yogis, Dakini's Warm Breath, anything by Pema Chodren, Jon Blofeld, 100,000 Songs of Milarepa, Psychology of Buddhist Tantra, Practicing the Path, Women of Wisdom, Transforming the Heart, Way of the Bodhisattva
memoirs of people who overcome adversity, and from different backgrounds and cultures than me, Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, John Irving, Tom Robbins, Pablo Neruda, Dostoyevski, Amy Tan, John Steinbeck, Mary Oliver, Joyce Carol Oates, e e cummings, Leo Tolstoy, Barbara Kingsolver, Diana Gabaldon...

Heroes:

Those who practice living fearlessly, those who place others needs before their own, who live simply, with light in their eyes and joy in their smiles, and those who make it through unimaginable sufferings, and are still able to laugh.

My Blog

the county fair

I used to love the fair. I don't think I missed a year as a child going with my parents, then as a teenager, drinking in the parking lot before going in to see who else was there, then when my girls...
Posted by sara on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:18:00 PST

I wrote my first song!

I had to remove the chords because I can't get the spacing right on here...In My Mind There's nowhere for fear to hide, Lama, When I find you in my mind. You draw the curtains open w...
Posted by sara on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:13:00 PST

Mysp latest news from Lhasa, Tibet

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.... ...
Posted by sara on Sat, 03 May 2008 08:00:00 PST

The Story of the Zoops

Thank you for this Kendra!Love,shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3nYxuppVU What an awesome breastfeeding analagy/story! Sad, but true unfortunately, the formula companies take great solice i...
Posted by sara on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:23:00 PST

Richard Gere, on Tibet, His Holiness and watching the mind

The Buddhist actor Richard Gere talks to Beliefnet about Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and how his life is infused with mindfulness.Interview by Valerie ReissAt this point, the iconic actor is probably as we...
Posted by sara on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:22:00 PST

To the Chinese People from His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Today, I extend heartfelt greetings to my Chinese brothers and sisters round the world, particularly to those in the People’s Republic of China. In the light of the recent developments in Tibet,...
Posted by sara on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:58:00 PST

Project for Peace

Please check out our new websitewww.sutraofgoldenlight.orgSomething everyone can do to contribute to world peace, Buddhist or not. Please repost, repost, repost!The idea of the campaign is very simple...
Posted by sara on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:43:00 PST

Dedication

(One of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's favorite dedications, extracted from chapter 10 of the Bodhicharyavatara of Master Shantideva)May all beings everywherePlagued by sufferings of body and mindObtai...
Posted by sara on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:41:00 PST

Eight Verses for Training the Mind

Eight Verses for Training the Mindby Langri Tangpa Dorje Senghetranslation by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche1~ Determined to obtain the greatest possible benefit from all sentient beings, who are ...
Posted by sara on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:47:00 PST

Everything Comes From The Mind

Everything Comes from the Mindby Lama Thubten YesheLama Yeshe gave this teaching at Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, in March, 1975.Buddhism can be understood on many different levels, and pe...
Posted by sara on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:06:00 PST