Observations that dive deep into life and come up with treasures for all

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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.

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Wyde-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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While my face has been in Facebook for awhile, no one has wanted to be my friend until the other day, and it was like being singled out in a crowd and you point to your chest with a surprised look on your face and lip sync the words, “Me? Did you mean Me?” Now I know I’m exaggerating a little here as this is no big deal for those of you traveling the paths of Facebook hauling around your long lists of active friends like you are going somewhere on a bus or something. Read More…

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Even though Osho died some years ago and his adventures in the USA as a yoga master had some rough patches, his words this morning were like an orange-robed  sun starting my day with the masters  somehow appropriate blessing. Read More…

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From Chogyam Trungpa: Ocean of Dharma

PREVENTING TOO MANY ACTIVITIES

One characteristic of a dharmic person, someone who practices meditation and the teachings of the Buddha, is to prevent too many activities, or you could say, reduce too many activities. According to tradition, that actually boils down to cutting nonfunctional talking, cutting the baby-sitter mentality, the entertainment mentality. You can get yourself into all kinds of projects, all kinds of engagements. You can become chummy with the world so that you don’t have to hold your discipline or your mindfulness properly. ….If you don’t like tea, you can have coffee. If you don’t like coffee, you could switch to Coca-Cola. If you don’t like Coca-Cola, you can drink scotch or vodka. You involve yourself in constant, constant activity. Sometimes you don’t even know what you are doing; you just come up with the idea that you need to be occupied with something, but you can’t put your finger on anything:” Do I need sex or do I need money or do I need clothes? What do I need?”….You could think about anything; the possibilities are infinite. Getting chummy with the situation involves lots of activity. According to the basic principles of Buddhism, you have to cut that down. When you become too chummy with your world, too familiar with your world, it becomes endless.

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In everyone’s town or neighborhood there is a Middle Way. It runs between the Right Way and the Wrong Way. But it’s a street with no road sign and few know it even exists because it is overgrown with grass and runs between property lines like a forgotten alley. Not even the trash collectors use it. If you find it you can make your own path as there will be no footprints to follow.

But it is there, believe me. Some guy named Buddha discovered this Way, but no one as seen him either. I heard he still lives in your town. Why he might be your neighbor.

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The longer I live the more sense Zen makes. In fact, the longer I live, the more Zen I make. In case you are not familiar with Zen, as I don’t talk about it hardly at all, Zen is the point in consciousness where your perception of what is real falls to the ground like melting icicles from a winter roof. Everything just drops! Zen is where you die! Read More…

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When the winds fail, what do you do? If you have lost your job, or fear losing it, or lost a relationship or close family member, you are like a sailing ship that has lost its wind and lies languishing with calm waters lapping at its hull and seagulls landing on its deck for handouts. You suddenly are going nowhere! Everything is dead! Read More…

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I think the current economical problem is even deeper than we imagine. But if we look at life integrally and not cherry picking our problems from the tree so that we are left wondering why the cheery has turned brown without understanding the needs or the season of the tree, we never get the total picture. Read More…

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From Chogyam Trungpa: Ocean of Dharma
Contentment is connected with appreciating what you have, with some sense of rejoicing, which is often very hard. You are constantly involved with possibilities of change, all the time changing from one thing to another. You cannot celebrate your own life as what you have, what you are. You are unable to celebrate the simplicity of the practice itself and the simplicity of life. But being contented with what you have IS a celebration.

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