Changes….

Posted by on Aug 24, 2010 in Cool Art, Emotions, Grief, Loss and Letting Go, Spirituality | Comments Off on Changes….

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve been reflecting lately on changes and illusions and all that happens as we age (even if we don’t grow up), all that happens as we grow and change and how much of life is how we see it.  In the pic above, do you see two old folks,  do you see the vase, do you see the woman coming through the doorway, do you see the young people?   It all changes as your viewpoint changes.  So much...

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Events at MABA

Posted by on Aug 22, 2010 in Events and Education, Spirituality or Religion | Comments Off on Events at MABA

Taiji and Qi Gong 太極拳 T’ai Chi Chuan and  氣功 Ch’i Gong Learn the Basics of the 24 Movement Form in a One-Day Mini-Retreat at MABA Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:15 am to 5:00 pm 11:45 am – Vegetarian Lunch included at the Mid-America Buddhist Association Monastery (MABA) Highway 94 & Schindler Road, Augusta, MO Taiji (太極拳; pinyin: tài jí quán;  Wade-Giles Romanization: t’ai chi ch’üan) is a very ancient Chinese system of exercise, moving meditation, and energy development method, that, along with Qi Gong (Ch’i K’ong), was practiced in Shaolin, Taoist, and Buddhist...

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Deserts, Loneliness and the Happy Night

Posted by on Aug 7, 2010 in Emotions, ponderings, prayers, Spirituality | Comments Off on Deserts, Loneliness and the Happy Night

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~~Norma Cousins Happy Saturday! 🙂 This morning I’m thinking of deserts, demons and coming home to the self, about all of the folks out there plagued or harassed by some sort of sickness or inner demon….  These things are on my mind for lots of reasons, but primarily because  I just spent the last week literally sicker than I have ever been.  Because my core spiritual training is native with some Buddhist and Christian thrown in for seasoning, my assumption is that I just had the  equivalent of a flu...

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Distance Healing Part II

Posted by on Aug 4, 2010 in Events and Education, Healing, Spirituality or Religion | 3 comments

Earlier this week, I started a conversation about distance healing.  In the first post, I talked about science and research regarding distance healing. For Part II, I’d like to focus more on the energetic and spiritual nature of healing in general, but distance healing specifically.  If you would like to learn more about healing in general, I wrote an article for The Heroic Journal about the difference in healing vs. curing, which can also be found here, in the July 11 archives of this blog. About half of my Blessings Enterprises practice involves distance healing. I have clients of all...

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The Practice of Loving-Kindness

Posted by on Aug 2, 2010 in prayers, Spirituality | 1 comment

A few people have asked me lately about metta, also known in some circles as maitri.   Metta is a practice of loving kindness toward self and others.  There are volumes written about metta, it is a basic Buddhist practice in all traditions.  Pema Chodron is a well known teacher of this practice and has written many books on the subject. The basic practice is to first practice loving kindness toward the self, to truly make friends with yourself.   When you find peace within, you can more readily practice it toward others.  The Judeo-Christian version of this is “to love your neighbor as...

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