No one is immune to the clarion wake-up call that’s blaring everywhere we go. We are what we focus on. We are what we expect. We are what we prepare to receive.
Believe it, dears. Our thoughts create the world. … More It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Day 14: A – Z Challenge Rise, Phoenix. Rise. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”~ Aldous Huxley One of the things that nearly 30 years of Buddhist practice has taught me is the value of resilience. Keep trying. Start again. Rethink your … More Never, Never, Never Give Up
A – Z Challenge – Day 8 Right Here, Right Now The typical Christian notion of hell as a place where the sinners, hellions, and hypocrites among us go after they die, in order to roast in a burning fire pit forevermore, is humorous to me. As if. As if we need to travel that … More Heaven and Hell
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth … More Nurturing Our Inner Light
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.” ~ Andrea Balt There’s no room these days for half-heartedness. Either step up, or step off, the universe seems to … More Burning This Life to Ash
“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image … More Shadowlands
“It’s your mind that creates the world.” ~ Buddha In Buddhism we base our faith upon something called “actual proof.” In other words, there is no such thing as blind faith — or the belief in something that offers no proof it actually works. We are certain that we will see changes and benefits when … More The Gem and the Robe
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ~ Buddha For Lisa Faye: Thanks for blessing my life with your kick-ass friendship. This week I got hooked. Appearances — the way things seem — speared my flesh and wrecked my peace of mind … More Building The Buddha Land
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.” ~ Ezra Pound. Twenty-nine … More Dreaming of Gotham
I am the Buddha. You are the Buddha. We are all capable of being a Buddha. A Buddha is (to put it simply) an enlightened human being. What Shakyamuni taught his disciples during the 50+ years that he expounded on his enlightenment was that we need not seek the truth outside of ourselves. Each one of us possesses infinite wisdom and the capacity to use it, IF (and that’s a big if) we decide (we still have free will) to use it. … More I am Living Proof
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