OM Right Speech: Learning Instead of Losing 4 Apr 20194 Apr 2019 In Buddhism, there is what's called the Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Aspiration, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. The theory is,…
Sermon Fred the Head, and Green Lantern 2 Mar 20192 Mar 2019 Tallahassee, Florida--Doak Campbell Stadium--1990 I'm at my first college football game. I should feel ecstatic. After all, I'm doing my first really crazy thing as a freshman in college, something…
Sermon DWDs 8 Jan 201919 Jan 2019 This can't be a long one today, as I've got reading to finish for group tonight. But today something stuck in my craw, and it was yet again caused by…
OM What do I say? 3 Jan 20193 Jan 2019 What do I say... ...when I come face to face with the person the world failed...when I'm the person for whom everything went right? I'm one of two OM patients…
OM The Envoy of Mr. Cogito 21 Dec 201821 Dec 2018 I love and admire poetry, and wish I could write it. In those rare instances that I find a piece of writing that encapsulates a hugely complex emotional territory in…
Sermon Sermon on What We Leave Behind 5 Dec 20185 Dec 2018 I'm in some strange mental territory here, so bear with me a while. I hope to make it worth our time. First things first, though--disclaimers. No, I have not received…
OM To save time… 5 Nov 201814 Nov 2018 I have several t-shirts that are hand-me-downs from my husband. After one too many hot-wash-and-dries (a laundry requirement when I'm a cancer patient living with an elementary-age child and a…
OM The Five Recollections 31 Oct 201828 Feb 2019 I've read a fair bit about Buddhism, but this is the first time I've stumbled across these teachings summed up in quite this way. The Five Recollections are kinda youchie.…
OM The Cost of Cancer Treatment, Part 2 8 Oct 20188 Oct 2018 I've talked about this before. And I'm pleased to report that, despite their representative's assertion, BCBS has, in fact, been paying for my care. Originally, I was looking at anything…
Sermon Sermon on Ecstatic States 30 Sep 201830 Sep 2018 The existence of mystical states absolutely overthrows the pretension of non-mystical states to be the sole and ultimate dictators of what we may believe. —William James, The Varieties of Religious…
