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“Even if the whole Universe is all a bunch of jerks doing jerk-type things, there’s still liberation in simply not being a jerk.” – Dogen I love the Brad Warner translation of Dogen. It actually makes him (Dogen) understandable.
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Several weeks ago someone on Facebook quoted someone on Twitter. The thought was something like, “Checking Facebook has become the equivalent of opening the refrigerator and staring into the void.” or something like that. I might have added to that thought. Have you ever done this? Opened the refrigerator and stared into it trying to…
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That was a weird experience. As the years go by my fear from that experience lessens. I have almost kind of forgotten about it. The memory of it feels like a fuzzy dream. I wrote a blog post about the experience later on that day. I wasn’t injured at all. I was very very lucky,…
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I’ve mentioned before that I am going through the exercises in the book “How to Train a Wild Elephant & other adventures in mindfulness” with my meditating friends. Some of the exercises have been more powerful than others. I wrote about my media fast last year, which was very eye-opening. A few months ago we…
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The other day I finally made it into a popular bookstore in Portland, New Renaissance. It’s a really cool place, full of what some would call “new age” books but others might call spiritual (as opposed to religious). As I was wandering around I had my antennae up and was gauging how different sections of…
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