When I was in my early twenties I was angry. Angry about what was going on in my life. Angry at my dad and mom for their divorce when I was eight at myself for being discharged from Marine boot camp and for not having someone to share my life with. All of these things made …
Category Archive: Philosophy
Dec 21
How We’re Teaching Buddhism To Our Kids.
I’ve posted many times about my beliefs in Buddhism, but I’ve never discussed what we tell our kids about Buddhism or Christianity. Here’s a couple of recent stories about our life and raising our kids Buddhist. A few weeks ago, my son who’s eight and smarter than he acts and thinks more philosophically than most …
Jul 11
Why Fear Madness?
What is it about madness that scares us. What is it about going mad that makes us feel totally confused, wrecked and without borders. What are the things we find in ourselves that confuse, distort and make the dark come. Some of the darkest times I’ve found myself searching for something larger than myself. When the …
May 30
Why we must claw through the pit to find ourselves.
What do we find when we look inside? A dastardly person full of evil, full of things that we can’t understand. Do we see a person living there that we don’t know? That we can’t figure out? Is this the feeling of loss? Of pain and anguish. The things that go bump in the night call …
Apr 09
Why Fate is your choice!
Morpheus: Do you believe in fate Neo? Neo: No. Morpheus : Why not? Neo: Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life. This scene from The Matrix is one of my favorites. The choice of reality and whether what we see in front of us in real. The other night my wife …
Dec 21
You can’t celebrate Christmas, you’re Buddhist
But I will suggest they let their kids be who they want and not restrict them based on their beliefs.
Dec 01
Learning mindfulness through meditation
My first time meditating was such an inspiring and enlightening experience that I had to learn more about it. What I discovered is not what I expected. Meditation is not done only by Buddhists. People of all faiths meditate. It is a way to find yourselves to get back to a oneness, a sense of …
Dec 01
Learning mindfulness through meditation
My first time meditating was such an inspiring and enlightening experience that I had to learn more about it. What I discovered is not what I expected. Meditation is not done only by Buddhists. People of all faiths meditate. It is a way to find yourselves to get back to a oneness, a sense of …
Nov 17
Why Buddha is not God, and other myths about Buddhism.
This post started out as a way to dispel myths about Buddhism. When I began writing it something else happened. I began to teach what I knew about Buddhism. Something I had hoped would happen eventually. I have been reading a new book by Lama Surya Das. Awakening to the Sacred is a book that …
Oct 19
Free will, Causality, Fate and whether any of it matters.
The first thing I must do in post such as this is state my beliefs. Otherwise I will be called any number of things. I have called myself a Buddhist for ten years, I don’t always follow some parts of the beliefs–drinking alcohol, meditating regularly–I have determined this is because of the way I was …
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