I'm taking-up greg's challenge. And the five to carry it on: Simy, Ralph, Ladyshark, Gautami, and Vesper (because I know you all read!). Total number of books owned: I have no idea but I'm sure it's easily a couple hundred. They're scattered throughout my apartment, most of them in my office...
There is lots of room to make mistakes. That's true, absolutely true. But such room for mistakes cannot be created unless there is surrendering, giving, some kind of opening. It cannot take place if there's no basis for it. However, if there is some basis --if we can give away our aggression or...
Originally published at In Pursuit of Mysteries. You can comment here or there.I want to write a few articles for publication and then work on a book or two. Of course, this will follow the completion of my current thesis work, which will free up a bit of time. I've never written articles for...
I'm learning to live on my own again and I'm preparing myself for big changes. I learned that when you want to achieve something, you need to work hard for it and depend on no one but yourself. You should never expect people (or situations) to do what needs to be done. I think this is part of...
Well, I can always feel it when it's been too long since I've written. It's really only been a couple of days-but that's enough to make me want to write first thing this morning. I need to take a moment to send a warm note of thanks out into the universe. I love the mornings. I love the way they...
Originally published at In Pursuit of Mysteries. You can comment here or there. I had a new book arrive today, The Teacup and the Skullcup: Chogyam Trungpa on Zen and Tantra. I've been looking forward to reading this book for a while. This book is a drawn from two seminars that Trungpa did on Zen...
Genuine inspiration is not particularly dramatic. It's very ordinary. It comes from settling down in your environment and accepting situations as natural. Out of that you begin to realize that you can dance with them. So inspiration comes from acceptance rather than from having a sudden flash of a...
I am reading "iberation through hearing in the bardo"translation by chogyam trungpa. Its getting more and more interesting and when they describe the wrathfull deities i really get a visual picture in my head of what they would look like. This quote reminded me of the piece on wrathfull deities....
Compassion becomes a bridge to the world outside. Trust and compassion for oneself bring inspiration to dance with life, to communicate with the energies of the world. Lacking this kind of inspiration and openness, the spiritual path becomes the samsaric path of desire. One remains trapped in the...
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