Please Go To New Blog Site

I have moved to WE-ARE-AWAKENING. COM

an updated and expanded website that includes my daily posts plus much more. I hope you like it. Don’t forget to bookmark the site and forward a link to your friends.

But, now that you are here, you can hang out for awhile—if you like digging around in old sites, that is. You may find some treasures—a Buddha someone threw away maybe—or you may just find trash.

Thank you for visiting my blog and sharing my discoveries with me.

Ed Conley Read More…

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This post was written by ed on February 23, 2009

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The Good Earth

dahliaThinking that I was going to improve my giant Dahlias that grow in my front yard, last fall I dug them up so I could divide then and replant in better locations this spring. But last week when I inspected the box in the shed I had put them it, they were soft and rotting. Was I a bad gardener? Read More…

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This post was written by ed on February 23, 2009

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A New Sign

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Two signs appeared yesterday,  one on the street where I live and the other on the internet highway where I play.  Conley’s Photographics has a new look, thanks to the art of James Hargrave, my 30 something friend who came back to Blackstone to plant his life and grow a sign business. And this Wyde-Angle.com blog is about ready to move to a new name and address:  we-are-awakening.com Read More…

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This post was written by ed on February 22, 2009

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Expansion coming

wakingWyde-Angle is being upgraded or expanded with a new name and website (as soon as I get a few bugs out). This spiritual blog as been going like ticker tape since July 2005 (look at the archives), one to three a day without missing an inch. While I can’t speak for those who read this outpouring, I have been, shall we say, awakened by it. I think it is internet journaling at best, mind trash at worst. Read More…

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This post was written by ed on February 21, 2009

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Driving Miss Mom

daisyYesterday was mainly Driving Miss Mom. We went to get her hair cut in Petersburg (45 miles away) where her hairdresser sweet talks her, not knowing that she complains about his cut after she leaves, then 50 miles away to return a hip hugging pair of slacks that she had tried on when she bought them at Talbots, where I feel asleep in the waiting chair while she shopped for 30 minutes and didn’t buy anything, then to Macy’s where she needed some lipstick now that Dillards had closed, but Macy’s cosmetic department was on the other side of the store and she got tired half way there and we had to go back; then we stopped at Barnes and Noble (my trip) for a book see and coffee (I got a book on Buddha (can’t have enough Buddha books) and a peanut butter cookie (boy, was I rushed), and then we went to Costco where she sat in the car while I got a pickup load of toilet paper because a lot of stuff piles up at home, and finally we stopped at Pet Mart so she could get a dog bed, training treats, and poodle puddle pads because it’s too cold for the dog to go out and pee and besides she’s too small to get up the steps or since she has lived in a kennel all her two year life before Mom got her,  steps are not part of her working vocabulary. It was a great trip!

No, seriously, it was a great trip. Every moment I spend with my 98 year-old mother is precious.

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This post was written by ed on February 20, 2009

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The code, the code

readingI’ve just spent over a week struggling to fix an error in a new Revolution Wordpress website I’m creating, and this morning thanks to a HTML code master, Brian, the error has been corrected. It looks like the internet age has divided us into three categories, (1) those who read what’s on the internet, (2) those who create something to be read on the internet, (3) and, at the top of the pyramid,  those who create the tools for the creators. Read More…

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This post was written by ed on February 19, 2009

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Service for the Joy of Service

From Swami Satchidananda: Words of Wisdom

“If your action is motivated by doing something for others, for bringing benefit to others and not expecting any result or reward for you, such an action is called Karma Yoga.  But if you expect a result, if you do something to get something, then it is karma. Karma Yoga is service, service for the joy of serving; you don’t even wait for thanks. That way, you can keep your mind calm; there is no reason to be disturbed. Whether people appreciate your action or not, even if they criticize you after having done it, that is their business. You have done your job; you are satisfied with what you have done; you did it to your capacity; and you don’t expect anything in return, so your mind is always calm. That is Yoga: calmness of mind.

If you want to accord with the Tao,

just do your job, then let go. Tao Te Ching

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This post was written by ed on February 19, 2009

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Taking out the trash

trashThis week, and in fact for almost two months, my attention has been on taking out the trash. As you’ve seen from previous posts, I’ve been helping my nephew-in-law deconstruct his past as he painstakingly went through the belongings of his parents, and decided what goes to the dump, Good Will, or family. And now we are done, but like landfills taking out the trash has many levels, and we usually just scratch around on the surface. Read More…

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This post was written by ed on February 18, 2009

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The Sweet Spot

fishingWe’re all looking for our sweet spot. My best metaphor for that miraculous place is when my wife’s brother Edward was shore fishing many years ago and suddenly began pulling fish in as fast as he could caste his line out. He didn’t even need bait! And no one up and down the beach was catching anything. You can’t look for your sweet spot. Your sweet spot has to find you. Read More…

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This post was written by ed on February 17, 2009

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UNDERSTANDING WHO YOU ARE

From Chogyam Trungpa; Ocean of Dharma
Propagating prajna, or your intellect, fully and thoroughly is a characteristic of a dharmic person. That is to say, you should find out and understand who you are and what you are made of. You should find out what your mind is made out of, what your mind’s projections are made out of, and what your relationship with your world is made of….The myth of original sin can be wiped out by realizing and studying how your mind can be unwound by undoing what you are. There are positive and good qualities, or basic goodness, in everybody.

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This post was written by ed on February 17, 2009

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