Every Buddhist has something that brought them to practicing. It’s either a book, movie or their environment. When I was in my early twenties I read a book by Lama Surya Das titled Awakening the Buddha Within. This was the book that set me on the path, but my path had bumps, potholes …
Tag Archive: faith
Jan 21
The Suffering Writer, Part 2
How our suffering started, When we stare at the paper or screen. It’s our suffering that comes out. It’s what we’ve been through. Though our writing is putting our suffering in stories, it’s still making it so people can see who we are, what we’ve been through and show that we’re not all that different …
Jan 14
The Suffering Writer, Part 1
To me writing has been about long nights, staring at a white screen covered in little words. It’s been about talking about who I am, who I’m not and all the little things in between. I’ve suffered through all of it. A writer’s suffering is their guide to what they should write. My discovery …
Jun 13
Why we shouldn’t fear the butterflies.
What dream is this? We see fantasy and ripples of lies following us through the journey of gathering what we think our lives are. We don’t feel the randomness, the chaotic spasms of our failings. We ignore the path set before us, it isn’t the one we want. IT is the path we want more than …
Jan 13
5 Things everyone should reflect on once in their lives
I never see things for what they are not anymore, only for what they are.
Dec 02
My New Life Resolution
Being good at something is all I wanted as a kid. I tried soccer. It was something my parents put me in not something I chose. I eventually tried ice hockey after baseball wasn’t me either. Finding what I’m good at has always haunted me. It is the one thing I remember as a kid. …
Aug 17
It’s always the crazy times that push us to our limits.
Finding the strength to push through these crazy times is what makes us who we are.
Aug 10
Dealing with anger in an angry world
Giving into our desires of anger, rage and sometimes hatred of these people will makes us less than we are.
May 30
Being led to the path, my path to Buddhism.
I am now on the path and have begun meditating again and I have discovered when I meditate my mind is more focused on my writing and everything feels better when I write it.
Feb 08
Taking the middle path…my journey
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. Buddha Trying to find my voice as a writer is one of the most difficult things I have done. Finding the way I …
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