I have only been friends with one blind person in my life, and it was a very long time ago, when I was still a teenager. But I wish I had a blind friend now that I could question about…
Close your eyes
Tag: mindfulness
I can’t fix this
It would seem that our human brains are wired to be “fixers”. When a situation arises, or we are presented with a difficulty, our neurotransmitters fire signals to the brain which compel us to act upon them. And I have…
Another day another dollar
Wouldn’t you think that after years and years of practice, that one could wake up in the morning feeling light and unfettered? Shouldn’t that be a payoff of the Buddhist practice? Well, as much as I might hope for such…
Open mouth, insert foot
“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind” ~ Buddha “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ~ Abraham Lincoln” “Speak…
A double dose of dosa
Dosa is the Pali word for aversion. And boy, how very often do we find ourselves caught up in this feeling. Perhaps the biggest pitfall is that we often don’t even realize that it is aversion which is causing us…