Passages come to us unexpectedly, often with a death in the family or a parent going to a retirement home, and when this door opens up we have to go through—often with tears flowing and emotions boiling over—to the new possibilities passages always bring to us. But whether we go through this door into a new world or see it as a revolving door to our old world is entirely up to us. That is our freedom. Read More…
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A friend of mine recently was describing how easy it is to make money on the internet, and his evidence was some guy who wrote an application for the ipod that makes fart sounds. He has sold thousands of toots. Since I don’t have an ipod I can’t check this out, but I do know that it’s a apt description of the internet. Here is our new field of possibility where turds turn into compost. Read More…
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This post was written by ed on February 16, 2009
This morning I’m thinking about our stories and how we tell our stories constantly to others, writing it out word by word, action by action in a living pen we call life. Our story is our history and we are constantly studying it, our collective history and out individual history, so we can hopefully figure out who we are and avoid, guess what, our history. So we look into the mirror of our history in order to see who we are. But is it working? Read More…
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This post was written by ed on February 15, 2009
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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This post was written by ed on February 14, 2009
From Chogyam Trunpa: Ocean of Dharma
For a dharmic person, good conduct is a sense of mindfulness and awareness: whatever you are doing, you should try to see it as an extension of your sitting practice, your general sense of awareness and refraining from too much, unnecessary activity….You could look at yourself and smile. You could be awake and aware and, at the same time, on the spot. Constant sunrise happens. You reflect that yourself, and you always look awake and aware of what you are doing. That is good conduct. You respect yourself and you respect the sacredness of your whole being, your whole existence. When you have that kind of self-respect, you don’t spill your tea or put your shoes on the wrong feet. You appreciate the weather, your coffee, your tea, your clothes, your shower. There is a tremendous sense that for the first time you have become a real human being and you can actually appreciate the world around you. That appreciation comes from being aware.
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This post was written by ed on February 13, 2009
I just got a couple of photographs from Blackstone in the 50s when parades were great and floats looked like the Rose Bowl Parade light. But on second look, I noticed that the parade was white. Read More…
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This post was written by ed on February 13, 2009
We Are Awakening! That is the URL of my updated blog that will be coming soon. We are all awakening but we need to share the dawning of consciousness because the unreal and the darkness is so very powerful. We can only awaken individually, and the collective mind like a house without windows want to be the only reality. “Don’t leave us,” it cries like a child missing its mother whose attention has turned away for a moment. Read More…
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This post was written by ed on February 13, 2009
Charlie Mouser’s daughter called yesterday and said her father died Tuesday. He had told me from the hospital that he was given six months to live and I thought there would be time for another one of our sessions where I took my latest idea to him for his expert input. My offering would, of course, be torn to bits and then reconstructed with more sanity and a slim hope of success. I always called Charlie my marketing guru. He was driven to expand businesses and business hopefuls to see beyond the boundaries of their assumed perfect plan. Read More…
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This post was written by ed on February 13, 2009
Confidence is a fragile flower. This phrase from Andrew Leonard’s blog on Salon.com this morning caught my attention. When we have confidence the world is workable and we feel we can go anywhere. When we don’t have confidence, we feel stuck and can’t go anywhere. Confidence is a strange flower that requires special conditions, so maybe it’s not so much the flower that mystifies us but the conditions. What can I do to get confidence? Read More…
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This post was written by ed on February 12, 2009
“The woods were dark and deep and I have miles to go before I sleep.” Robert Frost wrote those words but they were mine last night when my pickup truck full of dehydrated survival food got stuck in the back entrance to a food bank storage shed. I was on my way to substitute for a hatha yoga teacher’s class in a nearby town, but there I was stuck, quite unexpectedly I might add (but who ever expects to get suck?), and I couldn’t go forward as two trees blocked my way and I couldn’t go back as I was against a stump. I had been following a logging road, it seems, guided innocently into my stuckness by the good yoga teacher. Read More…
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This post was written by ed on February 11, 2009
