GRATITUDE PRAKTIS Intention: to write about (at least once a week, or more hopefully) 10 things I am grateful for, messages, inspirations, reflections, insights—inner and outer gifts I have received from the Friendly Universe! Gratitude Praktis January 18, 2010 1) Watching Avatar with dear friends today! Protect and Honor the great Mother in all her […]
September 19, 2009
Dharma work as dharma praktis. Working mindfully, working joyfully for the sake of all beings… Meeting the teachings of H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche online and having the fortune to visit Kechara House this summer, I got the chance to catch a glimpse of “dharma at work” through the many means of service that Kechara House […]
June 12, 2009
The Beloved Community, an online dharma talk by Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. Thay talks about Martin Luther King’s idea of the Beloved Community ~ The Sangha and how we as the sangha can offer our support to President Obama. Check it out here. “Buddhism is made up of non-Buddhist elements.” “When Barack Obama manifested, I […]
April 4, 2009
In Tension and Intentions The Things That Grow Us (inspired title by Auspicious Path) spiraling fire-works sanctified field sacred flow …to the other shore, to san francisco! …may your journey to take your One seat be blessed, protected, guided Kalyanamitra… …i rejoice with you in this period of springtime emerge(n)sees
March 30, 2009
The Dharma is for all of us. Yet, at times, there is a perception that the Dharma in the West, seems to belong, exist, or circulate for the benefit of particular communities — that sense of separation originating perhaps from the ways that location, race/culture or economics influences our lives mentally and materially. I am […]
March 14, 2009
On graduating to the next level, the inner level, in creating the conditions for a retreat center to manifest for the Kechara House community in Malaysia. “No black face, no fierce eyes,” says Tsem Tulku Rinpoche. “You transform first!” A fierce, clear and direct teaching! The Dharma is Deep & Lovely! Rejoice! south+east+asia+malaysia+loco lama aspirations […]
February 16, 2009
For 4.5 billion years of Earth history, epochs of civilizations have risen and fallen. Only Qi Gong and various spiritual practices have persisted through these eons of upheaval to pass on the torch of human existence. Every single tree and every blade of grass on our planet has a mission. Each person is born into this […]
February 9, 2009
Guided Meditation Offering to the World Beat Sangha tonight. I hope the sharing was all good and that it did not cause discomfort or confusion. I felt inspired to share a bit about my understandings of sitting praktis and the realizations, insights and “right view” that I’ve had the fortune to hear and learn and […]
January 21, 2009
May clarity and inspiration support this unfolding and revelation… May helpful friends and universal support guide me, easily through this eclipsing of my old self with my NU self… Breathing in, boundaries expanding… Breathing out, embracing, receiving.. ASTROLOGIE FROM WORDSFORTHEPEOPLE.COM Taurus – Forget about what got you to where you are in your career right […]
January 20, 2009
http://flippyknows.com Inspired space in the Philippines sharing new media technologies with folks in a community-grassroots-justUS environment! WOW! How inspiring! It makes me think of 826 literacy programs and Visual Communications in LA, Writerz Block here in Southeast SD, Cuachambiente film screenings — from that new media point of view. They host blogging workshops, digital photography, […]
January 19, 2010
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