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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. One of the more difficult parts about moving, for me at least, has always been the attrition. Deciding what’s going with me and what’s being donated or, in some cases, simply pitched out has always been more difficult than I think it should be. Why on Earth would anyone even want. I used to be asked that sometimes by classmates when I was in high school. (One even commented, in all seriousness, I’ve never been so bored that I had to read. Things are not words.
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The dharma of Wilson - sangha
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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. The dharma of Wilson. Hands up, everyone who’s seen Castaway. The movie with Tom Hanks about the guy who ends up stranded for years on a deserted island. That’s a lot of you good. If you recall, Hanks was on a delivery aircraft, something similar to DHL. What began happening, you may remember, was that he started talking. If you haven’t seen the movie, all of this sounds silly. If you have. Seen the movie, you might remember how emotionally effective that scene wa...
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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. A little while ago, I was a volunteer shopper for Code 3/ Clothe the Kids (third year for me). This is a local charity that exists because of the combined efforts of the KPD. The Kiwanis, and others. Disadvantaged kids are taken shopping for clothes by volunteer adults, who have a predetermined budget. The purpose is to ensure that the kids have some decent outfits without being subject to undue parental influence. The rules are fairly clear. The majority of t...
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Letting go of renunciation - sangha
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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. Letting go of renunciation. The monk pondered for a moment. When you get the urge to steal, simply be aware of it, he said. The robber blinked. That’s all? Yes, that’s all. Bemused, the robber parted ways with the monk. The monk shrugged. Every lust is a thought, he said, and in that moment the former robber was enlightened. It really doesn’t matter what the particulars are, because the essence of the story is what I’m focusing on here. I liked the ting. Yet, like...
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Archery - sangha
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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. Time is a mystery. It’s been defined as an increase in entropy, as the expansion of the cosmos, as the propagation of electromagnetic waves from a radiant point. One of the characteristics of time is that it is asymmetrical. This is called the arrow of time. What it means is that, as far as we are concerned, time moves in one direction only, from order into entropy, from past into future. But the problem with this is that it’s a mechanical. Time has been shown by ...
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The dharma of Wilson - sangha
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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. The dharma of Wilson. Hands up, everyone who’s seen Castaway. The movie with Tom Hanks about the guy who ends up stranded for years on a deserted island. That’s a lot of you good. If you recall, Hanks was on a delivery aircraft, something similar to DHL. What began happening, you may remember, was that he started talking. If you haven’t seen the movie, all of this sounds silly. If you have. Seen the movie, you might remember how emotionally effective that scene wa...
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Footprints of a gigantic lizard - sangha
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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. Footprints of a gigantic lizard. I can’t say with anything like certainty that I know what happens to us when we die. To some extent I think it might be a bit like the reverse of what happened at birth, only a bit more rapidly and drastically. Until well after the baby has come into the world. There’s a reason for all this philosophy in this post. If the emergence of personality is an ongoing process, logically it can be traced backward until you start unweaving t...
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Footprints of a gigantic lizard - sangha
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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. Footprints of a gigantic lizard. I can’t say with anything like certainty that I know what happens to us when we die. To some extent I think it might be a bit like the reverse of what happened at birth, only a bit more rapidly and drastically. Until well after the baby has come into the world. There’s a reason for all this philosophy in this post. If the emergence of personality is an ongoing process, logically it can be traced backward until you start unweaving t...
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Is ‘enough’ a concept we understand? - sangha
http://sangha-blog.nightwares.com/2012/05/15/is-enough-a-concept-we-understand
Commentary on practice, dharma and life. Is ‘enough’ a concept we understand? Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a book a couple years back on mindful eating. It’s his take on how to handle the problem we seem to have in American culture, anyway controlling our weight. Not surprisingly, for him it comes back to mindfulness. Being aware of what you’re doing, as you’re doing it. Vipassana meditation can help with that. So can turning off the TV. I was, too. Fish, fruits, veggies, grains, nuts, cheeses. Olive oi...At my...
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Who is I? - sangha
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Commentary on practice, dharma and life. Physics is a field that continues to surprise. In the early 1900s the belief was that it was effectively finished apart from a few minor details, there wasn’t anything new left to discover. Those few minor details. Ended up being the set of insights Einstein had which revolutionized our understanding of energy, matter, space, and time. More recently, the LHC. Not the Star Trek. Version of it. So far it’s only subatomic particles that have been teleported, but ...
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