Sermon The Devaduta Kingdoms 9 Oct 201921 Oct 2019 Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.…
Sermon Altered States Part II: Prayer 15 Sep 201915 Sep 2019 I’d thought I could discuss ecstatic or altered states in one post. Then I remembered…well, “remembered” is the wrong word. More correctly, I experienced a sucker punch to the head:…
OM Sitting Together 22 Jul 201922 Jul 2019 Yet again, I'm in a strange headspace, so bear with me... And if you are claustro or in any way triggered by the description of being enclosed in an MRI,…
MS… Right Action: i.e., WTH am I doing here? 28 Jun 201929 Jun 2019 There are moments that I just stop. I don't mean physically. I'm talking about moments that the contents of my brain and heart go on pause, and I catch myself…
MS… The Phantom Fourth 7 Jun 20197 Jun 2019 I'm about to test in taekwondo again, another in a long line of tests to (in theory) get me to my first degree black belt. I've already got the belt…
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…
