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In today’s highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. We must therefore develop a sense of universal responsibility . . . It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.THE DALAI LAMA

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Discursive thought patterns Intertwine like paisley printsIn my karmic hampster wheel existence.Natural American Spirit isSmoking a cigarette without feeling guilt or shame.Playing the strings of theo...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 23:00:00 GMT

If everyone is a Buddha, then who is the jerk?

             When we relate with people and the world we are really working with ourselves.  Every situation and interaction is not only a te...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:04:00 GMT

Wisdom is the absence of ignorance.

The major implication in the above statement is that wisdom (in this case wisdom of the nature of mind/reality) is not something to be acquired, but instead something to be uncovered.  It presupp...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:11:00 GMT

The Problem of Positions

Whenever I find myself in a discussion with someone and accidentally take a position on some imagined issue, I get this feeling of discomfort and limiting restriction.  I like to say that any dis...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:59:00 GMT

In this Night

I, Sitting comfortably in darkness,Here at my makeshift desk,Drinking Bohemian Highway Merlot Out of a stemless wine glass.The speakers vibrate Huxley Waxing philosophically about divine mescaline tri...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:56:00 GMT

Stuck on human...

What is Buddha nature minus human-ness? I'm sitting here trying to think of the universe sans homo-sapiens. The universe is 17 billion, humans are, what, a million? Buddha nature, let's call it cos...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:11:00 GMT

Fight Club as a Zen Buddhist Allegory

This essay is one of my favorite things ever.  I came across it again recently, and it's still as good as I remember.  It's quite long, but if you have ever seen Fight Club, or plan to, and ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:30:00 GMT

I am not this monkey

All suffering is caused by not knowing our true nature- 1st Vedantic KleshaI am not this body I am not this body I am not this body What is reality? Neti, neti (not this, not this) I take refu...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:18:00 GMT

And with which words will you define the words that define the words?

Tampa has too many Bush/Cheney bumper stickers and not enough vegan delis.Western philosophy is so much ado about semantics.  The first line of the Tao Te Ching is 'The spoken Tao is not the eter...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:23:00 GMT

Of Buddha, the West, and Attempting to Justify Negativity

I wanted to take a moment to explain something that probably seems confusing to anyone who might happen to look at this MySpace page.  There must seem like there is some kind of contradiction in being...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:59:00 GMT